The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is Nora K. Jemisin first novel. Prior to this release, she used to write short fiction. The second book in the Inheritance Trilogy is named The Broken Kingdoms and is coming out in fall 2010. The working title for the third and final book is Kingdom of Gods.
Summary
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.Interview excerpt:
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is the first book in The Inheritance Trilogy. When did the idea for the series first come to you? Originally I thought of the story about 14 or 15 years ago, while I was in graduate school. It was probably some kind of reaction to thesis-writing stress; I remember having a vivid and disturbing dream of very strange people. One was a man with stars in his hair. If you tried to touch his hair your hand would just keep going and you’d fall in. Another was a boy juggling these beautiful polished stone balls — which, when you looked closely, turned out to be planets. I woke up in a fever to come up with a narrative to explain these characters. These images sort of fused with all the mythology I’d absorbed over the years and turned into enslaved gods.
To read the entire interview, click here:http://www.sfwa.org/2011/06/nebula-awards-2010-interview-n-k-jemisin/
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