![]() At a certain stage of life, cities awaken avatars, people who are attuned to this consciousness, able to understand it and, from time to time, channel its power.Ĭities also have enemies. ![]() Like a hive communicating through a shared consciousness, a city is sustained by everyone and everything in it. ![]() They are born, they develop, they get sick, they can die. This New York is alive.Ĭities, we learn, are like any other living organism. In The City We Became, a magical novel of breadth and precision, Jemisin builds a version of New York City that is more than the borders of its boroughs. Jemisin shows us her version of the answers, and they add up to something bigger than the sum of its parts. ![]() What makes a city feel the way it does? Is it the art and the music? The people and how they view themselves? What about the infinite, minuscule details of the place, whether they are recognized or ignored completely? Three-time Hugo Award winner N.K. ![]()
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