To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “The City Born Great” by multi Hugo Award-winning author N. K. Jemisin, edited by Liz Gorinsky and illustrated by Richie Pope. “The City Born Great” originally published in 2016 and was a finalist for the Hugo Award and the Locus Award. It won the Eugie Award in 2017. “The City Born Great” was the basis for Jemisin’s bestselling The Great Cities duology: The City We Became and The World We Make.
This story is included in our special anniversary bundle, Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition, available to newsletter subscribers for a limited time.
New York City is about to go through a few changes. Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife… and how well he can learn to sing the city’s mighty song.
“The City Born Great” is also included in N. K. Jemisin’s Locus Award-winning collection, How Long ’til Black Future Month?
