The City Born Great: A Tor.com Original

Name: The City Born Great: A Tor.com Original
Rating: 4.222222328186035 (18 reviews)

N. K. Jemisin

Sep 2016 · Tor Books

4.2

18 reviews

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In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.

Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.

The City Born Great is a Tor.com Original.

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4.2

18 reviews

Nate Stevens

July 23, 2018

A neat very short story that I feel could go on for just one more big scene, but has Jemesin's trademark word skill delight.

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Kimberly Green

December 14, 2018

Not long enough. Wished therebwas more history included. What was the first city birthed? Is there a common thread among the singers? Basically, i just wanted it to be longer because i didn't want it to end.

About the author

N. K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has won the Hugo Award for best novel (The Fifth Season); been shortlisted for the Crawford, Gemmell Morningstar, and Tiptree Awards; and been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She also won a Locus Award for Best First Novel (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms) as well as multiple Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards.

Jemisin's short fiction has been published in pro markets such as Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; semipro markets such as Ideomancer and Abyss & Apex; and podcast markets and print anthologies. Her first six novels, a novella, and a short story collection are out now from Orbit Books.

Jemisin is currently a member of the Altered Fluid writing group. In addition to writing, she is a counseling psychologist and educator (specializing in career counseling and student development), a sometime hiker and biker, and a political/feminist/anti-racist blogger.

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