** IMPORTANT UPDATE**

N.K. Jemisin’s in-person event for The City We Became had to be canceled, but we are pleased to be able to offer you access to an exclusive virtual event streamed live! You’ll get a chance to hear about The City We Became and ask Jemisin questions. Only ticket-holders will have access — plus, you will still receive a copy of the book, with an option to sign up for a signed bookplate from Orbit during the event!

The virtual event will take place at the same time as the original event, 7pm on Friday, April 3rd. Tickets are available through Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nk-jemisin-signs-the-city-we-became-tickets-88878456857?aff=ebdssbdestsearch).

The link and password for the streaming event will be distributed via email. You will also be given a link to a google form which we will use to collect shipping information and details for the signed bookplates.

If you have already purchased a ticket and would like to request a refund, you may do so through Eventbrite. However, we hope you choose to join us in celebrating The City We Became! All ticket purchases help support the author, bookstore, and publisher!

Hosted by Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, in partnership with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. Introduction by Shelley Streeby, Director of the Clarion Workshop.

Join Hugo Award-winner, New York Times bestselling author, and former instructor for the Clarion and Clarion West writing workshops N. K. Jemisin for the launch of her stunning new novel, The City We Became.

Every great city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got six.

But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.

N. K. Jemisin is the first author in history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards, all for her Broken Earth trilogy. Her work has also won the Nebula, Locus, and Goodreads Choice Awards.

Praise for The City We Became:

"N. K. Jemisin has captured the living, breathing soul of New York City in a way that only a writer of her skill can. The City We Became is a masterpiece that plays by no rules-beautiful, musical, joyfully weird, and as impossibly fantastical as it is deeply true."—Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M

"The City We Became is a raucous delight, a joyride, a call-to-arms, a revolution with plenty of dancing. Eat your heart out, Lovecraft."—Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January

"The greatest fantasy novelist currently writing turns her magnificent eye and ear and heart on New York City, and the result is every bit as full of love and rage and crazy compelling characters as my beloved city deserves."—Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-Winning author of Blackfish City

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Please join us for additional literary events this summer on August 29, 2020 at the San Diego Festival of Books, hosted by the San Diego Union-Tribune.