The Fifth Season opens with a woman named Essun who discovers that her husband has murdered their baby son and has now disappeared with their daughter. Not all survive the process, as their teachers, Guardians, run a harsh regime.
They are trained at the Fulcrum, a school that both educates and brutalises orogenes-in-waiting. Orogenes can literally move mountains, but they are feared and hated despite what they do to help save humanity. Orogenes protect the Stillness: these are humans who possess an uncanny ability to control the ground beneath them, and as we learn later the sky above. Citizens of the Stillness hide out in Comms, only to rebuilt that which was destroyed.
It’s climate change taken to its extreme, and very much a warning to us in the here and now. These can be volcanic eruptions, massive earthquakes, the kind of natural disasters that have caused extended periods of drought and famine. On what may or may not be our Earth in the very far future, there is the Stillness: a supercontinent that endures eons long events known as Seasons. We don’t learn about the Moon until much later in the trilogy, which consists of The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stolen Sky. Jemisin, imagines, to much acclaim, the cataclysmic events that would befall our planet where something to happen to the Moon.
The Broken Earth trilogy, written by N.K. But little is made of the effect of the Moon’s disappearance from Earth’s orbit, and the likely geological impact it would have had on our planet. The full pilot is available on YouTube and is definitely worth watching. Over the course of two seasons (the first being the most superior), the Moon encounters black holes and space warps (the science is cagey, but let’s run with it), and all manners of aliens and danger. This was devastating for the Commander Koenig and the crew of Moonbase Alpha. Space 1999, a great (and sometimes not-so-great) British TV show from the 1970’s, created an extraordinary concept in which, due to a nuclear explosion on the Moon’s surface, our lunar neighbour was wrenched out of orbit and flung into the outer regions of our solar system and beyond.
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