The Black Tides of Heaven / The Red Threads of Fortune / The Descent of Monsters / The Ascent to Godhood
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- Update Date：2025-09-06
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- Author：Neon Yang
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Summary
The Tensorate Series， which has been nominated for the Hugo， Nebula， World Fantasy， Locus， and Lambda Literary Awards， is an incomparable treasure of modern epic fantasy。
Across four novellas， Neon Yang established themself as a fantasist in bold defiance of the limitations of their genre。 Available now in a single volume， these four novellas trace the generational decline of an empire and unfurl a world that is rich and strange beyond anything you've dreamed。
In the Tensorate Series you will find: rebellious nonbinary scions of empire， sky-spanning nagas with experimental souls， revolutionary engineers bent on bringing power to the people， pugilist monks， packs of loyal raptors， and much， much more。
The Tensorate Series omnibus contains The Black Tides of Heaven， The Red Threads of Fortune， The Descent of Monsters， and To Ascend to Godhood
Across four novellas， Neon Yang established themself as a fantasist in bold defiance of the limitations of their genre。 Available now in a single volume， these four novellas trace the generational decline of an empire and unfurl a world that is rich and strange beyond anything you've dreamed。
In the Tensorate Series you will find: rebellious nonbinary scions of empire， sky-spanning nagas with experimental souls， revolutionary engineers bent on bringing power to the people， pugilist monks， packs of loyal raptors， and much， much more。
The Tensorate Series omnibus contains The Black Tides of Heaven， The Red Threads of Fortune， The Descent of Monsters， and To Ascend to Godhood
Reviews
Catherine Cole
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Very cool combination of Asian mythology with war technology and bioengineering with soul magic。 Just so you know， The Descent of Monsters is completely epistolary。 I don't mind a combination of letters or journal entries and narration and dialogue， but I find solely epistolary storytelling to miss too much， and often wonder if the characters writing complex letters would have enough time and be in the right headspace to write them during dangerous situations rather than in hindsight。 This is si Very cool combination of Asian mythology with war technology and bioengineering with soul magic。 Just so you know， The Descent of Monsters is completely epistolary。 I don't mind a combination of letters or journal entries and narration and dialogue， but I find solely epistolary storytelling to miss too much， and often wonder if the characters writing complex letters would have enough time and be in the right headspace to write them during dangerous situations rather than in hindsight。 This is simply reader's preference。 Don't let that turn you away from this wonderful series。 。。。more
Maegrauko
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I love what Neon does with gender in this book。 The story gets better and more interesting each book and I hope it gets continued
Karina Woods
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I see these novellas are being combined - which is how they should have actually been published in the first place， since there's only enough material for one story。 I'm not going to buy this book， but I am going to repost my review from the first novella here:It's hard for me to quite explain my full feelings about this book。 I fell in love with the cover， and had to read it。 Initially， I was not disappointed。 The writing at the beginning of the book is beautiful， and the premise seemed really I see these novellas are being combined - which is how they should have actually been published in the first place， since there's only enough material for one story。 I'm not going to buy this book， but I am going to repost my review from the first novella here:It's hard for me to quite explain my full feelings about this book。 I fell in love with the cover， and had to read it。 Initially， I was not disappointed。 The writing at the beginning of the book is beautiful， and the premise seemed really interesting。As the story goes along， so much happens， and so much time is covered - it's as if Yang is trying to shove what could have been a full-length epic fantasy trilogy into a single novella。 This book tests the limits of concise writing and clarity - ultimately to the detriment of the story。 Yes， there are a lot of interesting ideas here。 I liked the portrayal of gender in this book， and Akeha and Mokoya were characters that I would have really enjoyed， if I had been given more time to actually spend with them。This novella is really just too short to achieve everything it's trying to do。 Clarity of plot and world-building are sacrificed for snippets of the main characters' lives as we zip along through the years before grinding to what is ultimately an unsatisfying ending。 The beautiful writing that the book opens with doesn't sustain itself throughout the entire story。With all this in mind， I had to wonder， why did Yang make this story so short？ Having read the sequels， I think they all suffer from the same problem: too short， with character and plot sacrificed for snippet-style scene after scene that just barely holds interest。Considering the price of these short little novellas， I was left with the impression that the author just wanted to harvest interesting ideas from their cultural background， transfer them to a fantasy setting， then sell novella-length stories at full novel price。 It seemed clear to me that all the books in this series would benefit from being longer， allowing for true immersion that would have greatly improved the reading experience。 I think the author should have just combined all of these novellas into a single novel that fully explores the world。 Eventually， I came to the disappointing conclusion that the author took a relatively simple plot， chopped it up into a few novellas， and sold them individually so they could make more money。 That alone would have been pretty exploitative of the reader， but it doesn't end there。It all came together when I visited Yang's twitter， and stumbled across a hostile， racist scree of tweets railing at white authors。 That's when I realized， this isn't a fantasy series。 This is a money-hungry author exploiting their racial heritage and flogging what could have been one decent full-length fantasy novel into chopped up little novellas to make a buck off the publishing industry。 At the expense of quality。 。。。more
Sophie
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3/5 writing +0。5 for queer representation = 3。5/5， rounded up for higher rating status
Chicca Palmentieri
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4。5
Nekkina93/72
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La recensione arriverà il 4 marzo。。Questo volume contiene:。Le maree nere del cielo。I fili rossi della fortuna。Discesa tra i mostri。Ascesa alla divinità。
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