The Broken Earth

Three books, three Hugos in three years, and the cleanest thing on this list to order.

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Where to start with The Broken Earth

In order, and that is all the order advice there is. What is worth saying instead is how the first book works, because the two things that make people put it down in the first fifty pages are both deliberate.

  1. 1
    The Fifth Season The Fifth Season

    It opens with the end of the world, then a chapter addressed to you as you, then unexplained words: orogene, stone eater, Fulcrum, Season. The second person is on purpose and it is not an ebook error. Give it fifty pages.

  2. 2
    The Obelisk Gate The Obelisk Gate

    Straight on. The three books are one novel and the first does not resolve.

  3. 3
    The Stone Sky The Stone Sky

    The end, and the third Hugo in a row, which no author had done before.

Then what? There is nothing else. No side novellas, no prequels, no short fiction confirmed to be set here, and the trilogy is finished and stays finished.

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The Trilogy

  • The Fifth Season 2015
  • The Obelisk Gate 2016
  • The Stone Sky 2017

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