Emergency Skin

Emergency Skin

2019 • 33 pages

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What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy.

An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: a graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind—hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out eons ago. After all this time, there’s no telling how they’ve devolved. Steel yourself, soldier. Get in. Get out. And try not to stare.

N. K. Jemisin’s Emergency Skin is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

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#3 in Forward Collection

Forward Collection is a 8-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, and N.K. Jemisin.


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October 13, 2019

I did not even know how much I needed a story that showed a better world and a way to get there. This is (more or less) what might've happened on Golgafrincham if they'd sent out only an Ark of rich people.

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