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The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Gretchen McCulloch loved it
The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (whose geology-based swear word system I loved linguistically) for their extensive histories of systemic exploitation

on allthingslinguistic.com · 26 Dec 2025

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it affiliate
Epic fantasy, but I think it rises above the level of mind candy. The approach to story-telling starts out by looking like bog-standard epic fantasy, if well done, but then gets more complicated and interesting (in spoilerish ways). Even better is the world-building: a planet where plate tectonics is so active that the dominant ideology is that the Earth is our father, and he hates us.

on bactra.org · 30 Apr 2016

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.