2021/026: The City We Became -- N K Jemisin

2021/026: The City We Became -- N K Jemisin

I am Manhattan, he thinks again, this time in a slow upwelling of despair. Every murderer. Every slave broker. Every slumlord who shut off the heat and froze children to death. Every stockbroker who got rich off war and suffering. It’s only the truth. He doesn’t have to like it, though. [p. 81]

Cities of a certain size, a certain density, evolve into conscious entities. In The City We Became it's already happened to London, Paris, Sao Paolo, Hong Kong, almost to New Orleans -- and now it's time for New York to awaken.( minor spoilers )