{"product_id":"the-descent-of-monsters-9781250165855","title":"The Descent of Monsters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the 2019 Lammy Award for best LGBTQ SF\/F\/Horror and the Locus Award for Best Novella \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNeon Yang continues to redefine the limits of silkpunk fantasy with their Tensorate novellas, which the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e lauded as \"joyously wild.\" In this third volume, an investigation into atrocities committed at a classified research facility threaten to expose secrets that the Protectorate will do anything to keep hidden \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou are reading this because I am dead\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSomething terrible happened at the Rewar Teng Institute of Experimental Methods. When the Tensorate's investigators arrived, they found a sea of blood and bones as far as the eye could see. One of the institute's experiments got loose, and its rage left no survivors. The investigators returned to the capital with few clues and two prisoners: the terrorist leader Sanao Akeha and a companion known only as Rider. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInvestigator Chuwan faces a puzzle. What really happened at the institute? What drew the Machinists there? What are her superiors trying to cover up? And why does she feel as if her strange dreams are forcing her down a narrowing path she cannot escape? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Tensorate Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook 1: \u003ci\u003eThe Black Tides of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook 2: \u003ci\u003eThe Red Threads of Fortune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBook 3: \u003ci\u003eThe Descent of Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook 4: \u003ci\u003eThe Ascent to Godhood\u003c\/i\u003e\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":50556690170130,"sku":"9781250165855","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0e948b63-1890-469d-a693-93f1fe9b8686.jpg?v=1731760304","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-descent-of-monsters-9781250165855","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}