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For readers of the second Broken Earth volume
If you loved The Obelisk Gate's deepening mythology, Nassun's troubling relationship with Schaffa, and the Castrima community's fragile cooperation, these books continue the trilogy or explore its most important companions.
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The Stone Sky
by N.K. Jemisin
The immediate sequel — the Syl Anagist revelations, Essun and Nassun's convergence at Corepoint, and the choice that will determine the world's future.
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The Fifth Season
by N.K. Jemisin
The trilogy's Hugo-winning first volume — essential for understanding the Castrima sequence and the obelisk mythology developing in The Obelisk Gate.
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
by N.K. Jemisin
Jemisin's debut — the Inheritance trilogy's first volume; the same formal ambition and thematic concern with oppression and power in a fantasy setting that the Broken Earth trilogy extends.
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Buy on AmazonA Memory Called Empire
by Arkady Martine
Hugo Award-winning debut — the companion in recent SF by a woman of color about imperialism and identity; the most important recent work in the tradition The Obelisk Gate belongs to.
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Buy on AmazonParable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
Butler's near-future dystopia — the predecessor in speculative fiction by a Black woman about surviving catastrophe; Lauren Olamina's community-building is the formal ancestor of Castrima.
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Buy on AmazonThe Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin's Hugo-winning classic — Genly Ai on Gethen is the formal predecessor to Essun's navigation of the Stillness, both novels about an outsider confronting a radically different society.
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Buy on AmazonThe Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin's anarchist utopia — Castrima's rogga/non-rogga cooperation is the companion to Anarres's community dynamics; both novels examine the fragility and cost of alternative social arrangements.
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Buy on AmazonThe Word for World is Forest
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin's anti-imperialist novella — the Athsheans' resistance to human colonialism is the formal predecessor to the orogenes' resistance in the Broken Earth trilogy.
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