Best of: N.K. Jemisin

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5 • 11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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This is the most fun I’ve ever had on a podcast. Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — won the Hugo Award for best novel this year for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the first author to have every book in a single series — her Broken Earth trilogy — win the Hugo for best novel, and the first black author to win a Hugo for best novel. She’s a badass. But what made this episode such a delight is it isn’t just a conversation. It’s a demonstration. Here, Jemisin takes me through the way she builds new worlds, and in doing, she offers a master class on how to think more rigorously, clearly, and thoroughly about our own world. Don’t miss it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.0	It's a holiday. And during the holidays, I'm trying to take a little bit of holiday, take a little bit of quiet, get some other things done, see some family.
1:08.0	So I'm putting up some of my favorite shows from the past couple of years.
1:12.0	This one I actually did just a couple of months ago, but I don't know. I loved it.
1:16.0	This was one of the ones where I walked in not quite knowing how the conversation would go.
1:21.0	And I don't think I have ever enjoyed a single one of these more.
1:25.0	This was my conversation with the remarkable science fiction and fantasy writer, N.K. Jemisin.
1:30.0	She's awesome. She just won her third Hugo Award for Best Novel in a Row.
1:36.0	No one has ever done that before. She was the first African-American novelist to ever win the Hugo for Best Novel.
1:42.0	She's the first person at all to win three of them in a row. She won them for the Broken Earth Trilogy.
1:47.0	And I should say the way I got turned on to her work was actually one of you. I got emails.
1:52.0	And actually when I look back, I'd gotten a couple of emails, but one in particular said, you know, you may like this Broken Earth Trilogy.
1:57.0	You may want to check out this author, N.K. Jemisin.
2:00.0	And I did and I could not stop. The books are so good. They deal with some of the hardest and most searing questions I've ever seen in fantasy work.
2:09.0	Her other books are great. The inheritance trilogy is amazing. So I was a complete fanboy when I contacted her for an interview.
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