A Book by Its Cover: Mass Effect: Initiation by N.K. Jemisin and Mac Walters

Cover of Mass Effect: Andromeda: Initiation, by N.K. Jemisin and Mac Walters. Short-haired woman in a spacesuit, helmet down, with a spaceship in the background.

… To her surprise, a grizzled, bitter man named Dylan Hunt is waiting for her with an offer:  the Imperial Commonwealth of Known Worlds will trade with Nala’s people, the Union of Concerned Scientific Worlds, but only if they successfully place in the top five in the Interdimensional Song Contest …

Book Review: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

“Let’s start with the end of the world, why don’t we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.” Beginning the book with an apocalypse as a cold open is just the first audacious and bold maneuver that writer N.K. Jemisin pulls off in The Fifth Season, the first of the Broken […]