{"id":1197,"date":"2017-08-17T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:37:03","slug":"n-k-jemisins-fifth-season-sci-fi-book-developed-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/n-k-jemisins-fifth-season-sci-fi-book-developed-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"N.K. Jemisin\u2019s \u2018The Fifth Season\u2019 Sci-Fi Book Is Being Developed Into A TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1199\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1199 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fifthseason.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fifthseason.jpg 850w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fifthseason-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fifthseason-768x452.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Hanifin\/Amazon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>N.K. Jemisin\u2019s Hugo Award-winning science fiction fantasy novel\u00a0<em>The Fifth Season\u00a0<\/em>is currently being developed into a television series at TNT. Shortly following the announcement of Nnedi Okorafor\u2019s\u00a0<em>Who Fears Death<\/em>\u00a0novel being adapted for television, the news is yet another exciting victory for black authors telling distinctive stories.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Fifth Season\u00a0<\/em>is an epic drama series set in a dystopian world where deadly earthquakes frequently destroy entire civilizations. A small fraction of inhabitants are able to quiet these earthquakes, however, they can also cause them. The series follows Damaya, Syenite, and Essun, three women with Earth-controlling abilities.<\/p>\n<p>The project is in its early production days, and will be written by\u00a0<em>Sleepy Hollow\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Leigh Dana Jackson. Dan Friedkin, Tim Kring, and Justin Levy will be executive producers for the series, as reported by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/08\/nk-jemisin-the-fifth-season-book-developed-tv-series-tnt-1202150542\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to becoming the first black writer to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel, N.K. Jemisin won the Locus Award for her debut novel,\u00a0<em>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms<\/em>. Her work has also received multiple nominations for Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and RT Reviewers\u2019 Choice Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N.K. Jemisin\u2019s Hugo Award-winning science fiction fantasy novel\u00a0The Fifth Season\u00a0is currently being developed into a television series at TNT. Shortly following the announcement of Nnedi Okorafor\u2019s\u00a0Who Fears Death\u00a0novel being adapted for television, the news is yet another exciting victory for black authors telling distinctive stories. The Fifth Season\u00a0is an epic drama series set in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[32,33],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-books","tag-books","tag-tv-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}