![]() ![]() Was there anything you felt strongly about getting “right” as you narrated her words?Ībsolutely. She assured me that my instincts were right, and reminded me to always trust them. (Ironically, I had stepped up my pace, fearing that my original tempo might be too slow. Also humbling, because she asked me to take my time more in the reading. I did get to speak with her during the process, and it was thrilling. Tell us about your personal connection to Tyson prior to narrating the audiobook, and did you work with her at all during the audiobook’s production?Ĭicely Tyson was very special to me she was a big reason why I wanted to be an actor and believed that it was possible for me, the Black girl with the buck teeth. ![]() I just loved how self-possessed she was in all of them. ![]() And I wanted to feel her energy as a young actress, then again as a mature actress. Not to copy her voice, but to hear and feel how she communicates, her energy and pace, her intellect and humor. I Googled to find every interview I could, and then watched them repeatedly. How did you prepare, and what did you most enjoy about the preparation? Tell me a bit about transforming Just as I Am into an audiobook. Here Miles discusses the humbling and thrilling process of narrating this remarkable book. The audiobook features a number of treasures, including a foreword read by Viola Davis and an introduction from Tyson herself, but narrator Robin Miles carries the majority of Tyson’s life story, and she does so beautifully. Each installment was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, with The Stone Sky winning in 2018.Actor, activist and visionary Cicely Tyson’s memoir, Just as I Am, is as graceful as it is funny, as measured as it is charming. Jemisin as the first author to win this prestigious award three years in a row. Stillness reflects modern society’s treatment of minorities, while providing a chilling warning about the threat of absolute power and climate disaster.Īll three volumes in The Broken Earth trilogy won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, distinguishing N. With the trilogy’s themes of strictly enforced social divisions and the biased distribution of essential resources, the author calls attention to the inequalities built into the foundation of advanced societies. Jemisin’s personal understanding of oppression as a black woman in America. Miles draws out the emotions-sometimes volatile, sometimes seething beneath the surface-as the complexities of this post-apocalyptic world unfold.“Īt its core, The Broken Earth is a story about power, destruction, and how society uses and profits from its marginalized members-drawing on author N. Her narration is intimate and engaged, and she enriches the complicated relationships. In its review of The Obelisk Gate, AudioFile praises: "Robin Miles continues as narrator, and the large cast of characters allows her to draw on her vast store of accents. In the final volume, The Stone Sky, a mother and daughter join forces to stop the cycle of Seasons-ensuring humanity’s survival on a peaceful planet, or its extinction.Īudie Award-winning narrator Robin Miles brings her host of remarkable talents to the continent of Stillness and its inhabitants-Orogenes, their ruling Guardians, and non-magical Stills alike-weaving the various threads of The Broken Earth together. Continuing the story, The Obelisk Gate reveals what happens when that dreaded Season hits-and that missing daughter grows up, with a vengeance. When the three stories crash together in a startling climax, it leaves the planet (and listeners) reeling. The Fifth Season follows the twisting threads of three different stories, as three powerful female Orogenes-including a mother on a desperate search for her missing daughter-fight to survive. When one incredibly powerful Orogene, frustrated with the rigid and oppressive society, splits the entire continent along its length, Stillness is threatened by its worst Season yet. Not surprisingly, they’re widely feared and often killed for their powers. ![]() Taken from their homes as children and subjected to brutal training, Orogenes have the magical ability to quell earthquakes and stave off climate upheavals, known as Seasons-as well as flash-freeze ordinary humans. And with a Fifth Season of ferocious climate change fast approaching, being an Orogenes is more dangerous than ever. On the planet’s lone continent, Stillness, the gifted Orogenes choose how to wield their power over the Earth-for good or ill. ![]()
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