skygiants

It's odd. Everything is terrible and I want to know more. Tell me everything, N.K. Jemisin. I mean, I don't understand how the human race is going to survive the next fifty years in Essun's timeline, and I'm not even sure the human race deserves to survive the next fifty years, and I would be totally unsurprised if survival involves cannibalism. And with all that, the geological/apocalyptic story isn't even the main story.

The real story is the nested set of family tragedies. SPOILERS HENCEFORTH IN ROT13 SERIOUSLY DO NOT TRANSLATE THIS IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE WHOLE BOOK.

Jr zrrg Rffha jura fur'f ybfg ure vqragvgl orpnhfr ure uhfonaq xvyyrq ure fba, ohg gur npgvba gung znqr ure Rffha jnf ure xvyyvat ure svefg fba. (Fb znal rpubrf sebz Gbav Zbeevfba...) Naq Flravgr-Rffha xvyyrq Pbehaqhz gb xrrc uvz sebz orvat n fynir yvxr Nynonfgre'f cerivbhf puvyqera, ohg Pbehaqhz jnf Nynonfgre'f svefg serr fba naq gur bayl bar jubz Nynonfgre gehyl nyybjrq uvzfrys gb ybir. Naq haqre nyy gung gentrql vf Qnznln'f bevtvany nonaqbazrag ol ure snzvyl, naq ure tenqhny qvfpbirel gung ure Thneqvna, jub vf va znal jnlf ure sbfgre cnerag, vf nohfvir naq vzcbfvat na nohfvir flfgrz hcba ure. Cneragf orgenlvat puvyqera, cneragf orgenlvat puvyqera gb fnir puvyqera, puvyqera orgenlrq, bire naq bire ntnva va n gentvp plpyr. Naq V qb zrna "gentrql" va gur shyy yvgrenel-gurbel frafr bs gur jbeq.

THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH HAS SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST CHAPTER OF OBELISK GATE, WHICH I GOT THROUGH JEMISIN'S PATREON.

Gur plpyrf bs cneragny orgenlny nera'g bire lrg, rvgure. Anffha qrfcrengryl jnagrq gb rfpncr Rffha sbe fbzr ernfba. Jung unccrarq gurer? Jung jnf Rffha rira yvxr nf n zbgure? Jung vf Wvwn yvxr nf n sngure jura ur'f abg xvyyvat uvf fba? Jung jvyy unccra gb Anffha jura fur trgf ure bja Thneqvna? Rirelguvat vf tbvat gb xrrc orvat ubeevoyr, naq gur avtug jvyy bayl trg qnexre.