Shannon
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N.K. Jemisin:
Why do you write most (or all?) of your books in series? Do you feel like there is usually a particular volume in the series that is weakest?
N.K. Jemisin
I'm an epic fantasy writer at my core, so I like lengthy stories with multiple arcs. I don't generally think there's a particular volume in a series that's weakest -- in part because "what's weakest" is relative to the reader's taste. It's popular to malign the second book in a trilogy, I've noticed, but I think that's facile. Second books have a particular job to do, and that job is *not* to be as "hook"-y as the beginning or explosive as the ending. If it does its job well, however, a good second book gives important layers of meaning to the hook and climax.
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Nicole
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N.K. Jemisin:
I first got into you through the Inheritance trilogy and absolutely adore the series. Now my sister introduced me to your Mass Effect Andromeda book Initiation. I absolutely love Mass Effect, and I love your work, so you can see why I’m excited. :) How’d you get that gig? Were you already familiar with the series, was it a learn as you go thing, how does one go about writing in the universe of such a large franchise?
Pamela Block
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N.K. Jemisin:
1)How do you describe your work? Afrofuturism, speculative fiction, science fiction and fantasy that might describe your work, but what do you call it and why? 2)Sami Schalk (author, Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction) recommended you to me bc I love Octavia Butler. Was Butler an influence for you? If so how, and which works of hers resonated with you?
Jay Kay
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N.K. Jemisin:
Hello Ms Jemisin, There was a number of plot holes in the broken earth Trilogy, are you going to explain those in later books? For example how Hoa the stone eater ended up trapped inside the red obelisk. Will you release an apocrypha to accompany the Broken Earth Trilogy? I would really love to learn more about the Niess.
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