The World We Make
core novel 2022 The Great Cities Duology
Record
| First published | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (19,681 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| Page count | 357 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316509916 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Having weathered New York City's first battle for its own existence, the newly awakened avatars of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, along with the city's overarching primary avatar, now face a subtler and more insidious threat than open supernatural assault. The mysterious enemy that nearly destroyed the newborn city has not given up; instead it works through very human channels, backing a mayoral candidate who campaigns on gentrification, xenophobia, and a hard-edged vision of law and order that threatens to hollow the city out from within just as effectively as any monster could. To stop him and the force behind him, New York's avatars must reach beyond their own five boroughs and forge alliances with the living avatars of other great cities around the world, testing what solidarity between cities, and between neighbors, can actually accomplish.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Great Cities Duology
- Series: The Great Cities core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: N.K. Jemisin
Notes
- From the series record (The Great Cities): Complete 2-book duology; sfadb's own bibliography lists no further entries in this series.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Great Cities: position 2 of 2: previous The City We Became (2020)
Sources
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