{"product_id":"the-ascent-to-godhood-9781250165886","title":"The Ascent to Godhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrepare yourself for \u003ci\u003eThe Ascent to Godhood\u003c\/i\u003e, the fourth book in Neon Yang's silkpunk Tensorate series, a wide-ranging, imaginative, engaging playground that the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e lauded as \"joyously wild.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2020 Locus Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Protector is dead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNEON YANG is the author of the Tensorate series of novellas from Tor.Com Publishing (\u003ci\u003eThe Red Threads of Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Tides of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Descent of Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ascent to Godhood\u003c\/i\u003e). 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, \u003ci\u003eUncanny Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLightspeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eClarkesworld\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStrange Horizons\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNeon 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.\u003cbr\u003eNeon is currently based out of Singapore. They are queer and non-binary. Find them online at http: \/\/jyyang.com or on Twitter as @jyneonyang.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tordotcom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544346038546,"sku":"9781250165886","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_add949d1-b23d-4d1b-942d-e4cd1f4ef4d2.jpg?v=1731526841","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ascent-to-godhood-9781250165886","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}