The Killing Moon is an immersive fantasy novel written by N.K. Jemisin about a man known as a Gatherer who’s job is to gather magic while people sleep to help them and to maintain order.

I felt like this novel was powerfully visual, but often not in explicit ways. While reading this novel I couldn’t help but feel the ambiance of this world.

I used Bing’s AI art generator powered by DALL-E and Adobe Firefly to generate a few images based on and inspired by the book.

A man dressed in a cloak places his hand on a sleeping man. This represents the work of Ehiru the Gatherer.

A man wearing loindrapes and gold earcuffs, jumping from rooftop to rooftop. the moon is in the sky and casts oily swirls of amethyst and aquamarine

Jungissa: a thumb-long polished stone like dark glass, which had been carved into the likeness of a cicada.

Small hemisphere of obsidian whose flat face had been embossed with an oasis rose, the crevices tamped full of powdered ink

“the moon’s strange light bathed all Gujaareh in oily swirls of amethyst and aquamarine. It could make lowcaste hovels seem sturdy and fine; pathways of plain clay brick gleamed as if silvered. Within the moonlight’s strange shadows, a man might crouch on the shadowed ledge of a building and be only a faint etching against the marbled gray.”