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    The City Born Great: A Tor.com Original
    The City Born Great: A Tor.com Original
    The City Born Great: A Tor.com Original
    Audiobook47 minutes

    The City Born Great: A Tor.com Original

    Written by N. K. Jemisin

    Narrated by Landon Woodson

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “Landon Woodson's captivating singing opens this stand-alone short story...Woodson's agile and engaging narration makes listeners wary of the ominous threats and feel all the anticipation for the battle to come." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

    In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.

    Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.

    The City Born Great is a Tor.com Original.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 12, 2020
    ISBN9781250773302
    The City Born Great: A Tor.com Original
    Author

    N. K. Jemisin

    N(ora). K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has won the Hugo Award for best novel (The Fifth Season); been shortlisted for the Crawford, Gemmell Morningstar, and Tiptree Awards; and been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She also won a Locus Award for Best First Novel (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms) as well as multiple Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. Jemisin's short fiction has been published in pro markets such as Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; semipro markets such as Ideomancer and Abyss & Apex; and podcast markets and print anthologies. Her first six novels, a novella, and a short story collection are available from Orbit Books. Jemisin is a member of the Altered Fluid writing group. In addition to writing, she is a counseling psychologist and educator (specializing in career counseling and student development), a sometime hiker and biker, and a political/feminist/anti-racist blogger. N. K.'s stories include The City Born Great and The Fifth Season.

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    • 5/5
      A really dope novella that sets you up for The City We Became. A beautifully vibrant and colorfully short film in verbal form is this story for me. Reminds me of home and I loved every minute ?. Landon Woodson, the narrator, is awesome and really helps to bring this story to life even more!

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    • 5/5
      Unique, queer, epic, and gritty. Blending sci-fi vibes and a call back to animist spirituality. Love ?
    • 3/5
      Too short. I would have loved it to be a bit longer.
    • 5/5
      N. K. Jemisin creates a captivating world where the great cities of the world are alive and perhaps not so well. I enjoyed the singing and lyrical prose.
    • 5/5
      Amazing. I loved The City born, it was a magical and captivating short story. Great audio book narration.
    • 5/5
      The singing and evocative rhythms of the reader’s performance anchor this story about city avatars in a vibrant feeling of city life. If I had just read the story on the page I might have thought it was too abstract — just a kind of allegorical exercise. Landon Woodson’s reading brings it alive.
    • 1/5
      Whoa, man. He’s, like, the avatar for NYC. And NYC is ALIVE!
    • 5/5
      So strange. Beautifully read! The soul of the city is a hungry poor boy. He struggles to survive and summon his powers to save his city in a nightmareish battle.







    • 5/5
      For those who felt this short story was too short, I have good news: Jemisin turned this short into the prologue of a full novel, the first in a series. It's not on scribd (yet?), but look up The City We Became. It's epic, and really deserves to be an audiobook with all the New York soundscape they put into it. Brilliant characters. Amazing, lyrical writing. World building with a solid mysterious happening to unravel. Possibly the end of the world. Maybe something bigger.
    • 5/5
      Loved the way the story was read. It captured all the emotions and atmosphere so well.
    • 5/5
      This made me so big boogery tears. I love this story (and New York) so damn much. And the narration was transcendent.
    • 5/5
      Bring more NK Jemison to Scribd please! she is such a fabulous author, I love her ability to build rich world's

      2 people found this helpful