The Ascent to Godhood

Neon Yang

Tom Doherty Associates, Jul 30, 2019 - Fiction - 128 pages

Prepare yourself for The Ascent to Godhood, the fourth book in Neon Yang's silkpunk Tensorate series, a wide-ranging, imaginative, engaging playground that the New York Times lauded as "joyously wild."

Finalist for the 2020 Locus Award

The Protector is dead.

For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies to the corners of the map. For half a century the world turned around her as she built her armies, trained her Tensors, and grasped at the reins of fate itself. Now she is dead. Her followers will quiver, her enemies rejoice.

But in one tavern, deep in rebel territory, her greatest enemy drowns her sorrows. Lady Han raised a movement that sought the Protector's head, yet now she can only mourn her loss. She remembers how it all began, when the Protector was young, not yet crowned, and a desperate dancing girl dared to fall in love with her.

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User Review  - Tsana - LibraryThing

The Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang is the fourth novella in the Tensorate series. It tells its own story, but it does contain sort of spoilers for some of the earlier novellas, especially The Descent of ...

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User Review  - quondame - LibraryThing

Told second person as a bar story this is the testimony of Lady Min, peasant, dancing girl, lady in waiting to/assassin for/administrator under the just deceased Protector. A journey through the highest levels of low behavior in the court with an interesting codicil.

About the author

NEON YANG is the author of the Tensorate series of novellas from Tor.Com Publishing (The Red Threads of Fortune, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Descent of Monsters and The Ascent to Godhood). Their work has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Lambda Literary and Locus awards, while the Tensorate novellas were a Tiptree honoree in 2018. They have over two dozen works of short fiction published in venues including Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and Strange Horizons.

Neon attended the 2013 class of Clarion West, and received their MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2016. In previous incarnations, they have been a molecular biologist, a writer for animation, comics and games, a science communicator, and a journalist for one of Singapore’s national papers.
Neon is currently based out of Singapore. They are queer and non-binary. Find them online at http://jyyang.com or on Twitter as @jyneonyang.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Ascent to Godhood; Volume 4 of The Tensorate Series
• Author: Neon Yang
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 2019
• ISBN: 1250165873, 9781250165879
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Fantasy / Epic