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The Tensorate Series by Neon Yang7/7/2023 I’m ready for the plane to go down, Captain. Tensorate Series : (the Black Tides of Heaven, the Red Threads of Fortune, the Descent of Monsters, the Ascent to Godhood). (In the world of the Protectorate, it is customary for children to choose their gender before becoming adults-but the certainty with which Mokoya makes her choice takes Akeha, who will choose to be male, by surprise.) The Hugo and Nebula-nominated novella has all the weight of an epic without the page count, but it’s worth noting that it’s not the only entry point into Yang’s richly-envisioned Tensorate series: Its twin, The Red Threads of Fortune, was published on the same day in 2017, and the duo can be read in any order. Late last year Tor.com published a tidy omnibus volume of all four of Neon Yang’s Tensorate novellas, a series that has been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and Locus awards, and it was such a great value I snatched it up immediately. Initially inseparable, the twins’ paths begin to diverge as they grow into their abilities-both are gifted in the art of Slackcraft, a magic system that allows them to manipulate the natural world-and their individual identities. In author Neon Yang’s The Black Tides of Heaven, twins Akeha and Mokoya are sent by their mother, the leader of the Protectorate, to be raised in a far-away monastery. 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.
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