The City Born Great (Great Cities #0.5), by N.K. Jemisin (author), Landon Woodson (narrator); Macmillan Audio, ISBN 9781250773302, May 2020 (original publication 2016)
Review by Lis Carey: The process of a great city being born as a living city starts sooner than we might realize from just the birth itself. Living cities, actual and potential have enemies, and they need protectors.
This is a short story about one of New York’s midwives, a young man about a decade earlier than the actual birth, coached–and coaxed–by Paolo, the avatar of San Paolo. He’s a street painter, and a singer, and he’d really rather not have the responsibility, but the city calls to him, and enemy needs to be stopped.
The narration is wonderful, and the story is a lovely addition to the two books so far in the Great Cities series.
I bought this audiobook.
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If this is the first one, that won a Hugo several years ago, hell, yes.
But if you’re a suburbanite or country person who’s never lived in the city, and hates going in, go away. This is for us city people who love the city, and all that it offers.
Loved this.
Yes, this is the short story, published in 2016, which is apparently the start of the Great Cities sequence. I discovered it only after the two novels, though.
And yes, these are for people who love cities, their diversity, and their vibrancy.