Stone Hunger

expanded short fiction 2014 The Broken Earth

Record

First published	2014
Original language	EN
Work type	short fiction
Canon status	expanded

Synopsis

In the hungry twilight of a volcanic winter, a hunter with earth-moving powers stalks the person responsible for catastrophically destroying her town, in a fractured world ruled by rigid, sectarian roles. This short story later served as the conceptual basis for Jemisin's novel The Fifth Season.

Where it sits

• Universe: The Broken Earth
• Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
• Author: N.K. Jemisin

Notes

• Clarkesworld #94 (July 2014); set in the Stillness per nkjemisin.com, unrelated to the trilogy's main narrative.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

• Publication order, within The Broken Earth (standalone work): position 1 of 4: next The Fifth Season (2015)

Sources

• https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/jemisin_07_14/
• https://nkjemisin.com/series/the-broken-earth/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Long_%27til_Black_Future_Month%3F

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