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by N. K. Jemisin


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  Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Welcome

  Dedication

  Map

  Prologue: you are here

  1: you, at the end

  2: Damaya, in winters past

  3: you’re on your way

  4: Syenite, cut and polished

  5: you’re not alone

  6: Damaya, grinding to a halt

  7: you plus one is two

  8: Syenite on the highroad

  Interlude

  9: Syenite among the enemy

  10: you walk beside the beast

  11: Damaya at the fulcrum of it all

  12: Syenite finds a new toy

  13: you’re on the trail

  14: Syenite breaks her toys

  15: you’re among friends

  16: Syen in the hidden land

  17: Damaya, in finality

  18: you discover wonders down below

  19: Syenite on the lookout

  Interlude

  20: Syenite, stretched and snapped back

  21: you’re getting the band back together

  22: Syenite, fractured

  23: you’re all you need

  Appendix 1: A catalog of Fifth Seasons that have been recorded prior to and since the founding of the Sanzed Equatorial Affiliation, from most recent to oldest

  Appendix 2: A Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in All Quartents of the Stillness

  Acknowledgments

  Extras Meet the Author

  A Preview of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

  A Preview of The Killing Moon

  Also by N. K. Jemisin

  Praise for The Inheritance Trilogy

  Praise for the Dreamblood Duology

  Orbit Newsletter

  Copyright

  Copyright

  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Copyright © 2015 by N. K. Jemisin

  Excerpt from The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms copyright © 2010 by N. K. Jemisin

  Excerpt from The Killing Moon copyright © 2012 by N. K. Jemisin

  Map © Tim Paul

  Cover design by Lauren Panepinto

  Cover photo © Archangel-Images

  Cover © 2015 Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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  ISBN 978-0-316-22930-2

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