“The City Born Great” by N.K. Jemisin should win this year’s Hugo for short story. The conceit of the story is that great human cities have a life of their own. Maybe that life awakens quickly, maybe it takes centuries or millennia, but at some point the genius loci becomes a thing in itself. Birth …
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May 07 2017
“The City Born Great” by N.K. Jemisin
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Short Stories, Urban Fantasy
May 7, 2017
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