Emergency Skin is a literary fiction book by author N. K. Jemisin.
N. K. Jemisin’s Emergency Skin is part of Forward, a collection of six stories about the near and distant future by authors living out of the world.
An explorer returns to gather information from a climate ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others, among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. A graveyard world awaits him. But so are the things left behind – the hopeless and unbearable wastes of humanity, who should have long since died. After all this time, there is no telling how they have developed. Train yourself, soldier.
