There are 4 books in the The Tensorate series. The newest book is The Ascent to Godhood which came out in 2019.

"Joyously wild stuff. Highly recommended." ―The New York Times

One of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, according to Time Magazine

A Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards for Best Novella

The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions…

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The Red Threads of Fortune

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“Joyously wild stuff. Highly recommended.” ―The New York Times

The Red Threads of Fortune is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to Neon Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Black Tides of Heaven,…

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The Descent of Monsters

Book cover of The Descent of Monsters
You are reading this because I am dead.

Something 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…

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The Ascent to Godhood

Book cover of The Ascent to Godhood

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…