Staff Picks: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

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It’s Locus’s 2020 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Arley Sorg selects The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin. Gary K. Wolfe says: “The basic premise, which was previewed in Jemisin’s 2016 story “The City Born Great”, is this: each great city reaches a point in its history when it literally comes alive and is embodied in an avatar who might otherwise seem an ordinary, undistinguished citizen. When this happens, ancient eldritch forces try to use this moment of instability to invade and gain a foothold in our world.”

You can check out Gary’s review online or in the February 2020 issue of Locus.

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Spotlight on Lynne M. Thomas, Archivist

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Lynne M. Thomas is the Head of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb IL, where she is responsible for popular culture special collections, including papers of SF authors, dime novels, and popular historical children’s literature. She co-authored Special Collections 2.0, a book about web 2.0 technologies and special collections in libraries with Beth Whittaker of the University of Kansas (Libraries Unlimited, 2009), and co-edited Chicks