Ep 285 - The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin

The podcast discusses N.K. Jemisin's novel The Fifth Season, focusing on its premise of serial apocalypses and oppressed earth mages. They also touch on anniversaries, Super Nintendo RPGs, internet trolls, political manipulation, the importance of N.K. Jemisin's win at the Hugo awards, a new podcast called Cereal Box, the concept of the fifth season and its connection to periodic apocalypses, the concept of race and evolutionary abilities in the book, parenting and motherhood in difficult circumstances, and the theme of changing identities.