![]() ![]() ![]() This moment of awakening doesn’t seem to depend on such mundane matters as population or geographical size, which may explain why Paris or Lagos got there before New York. The central notion is that at some point in its history, each great city achieves consciousness and becomes a living being, embodied in an avatar who may otherwise be an ordinary, anonymous citizen. “The City We Became” is partly a spectacular love letter to New York City in all its diversity, partly the beginning of a new fantasy trilogy, and partly a horror story with roots that go back as far as H.P. The world she portrays in her new novel is a lot closer to home. Set on an imaginary planet facing catastrophic climate changes, Jemison’s award-sweeping “Broken Earth” trilogy was impressive in part because of its complex characterization and its meticulously detailed world-building, as were her earlier fantasy novels. Jemisin is arguably the most prominent science-fiction writer to emerge so far in the 21st century. After becoming the first African American writer to win the coveted Hugo Award for best novel, the first writer ever to win three consecutive best novel Hugos, and the subject of a long profile in The New Yorker, N.K. ![]()
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