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The Fifth Season (novel)

2015 novel by N. K. Jemisin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Fifth Season is a 2015 science fantasy novel by American writer N. K. Jemisin. It was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. It is the first volume in the Broken Earth series and is followed by The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Fifth Season (novel)” is 2015 novel by N. K. Jemisin. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fifth, Season and novel, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Fifth, Season and novel is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “2015 novel by N. K. Jemisin” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2016.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Fifth Season (novel)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.