The Black Tides of Heaven
$30.80
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2017
Summary
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While his sister received visions of what would be, Akeha realised what could be. What’s more, he saw the sickness at the heart of his mother’s Protectorate.
A rebellion is growing. The Machinists discover new technologies to move the world every day, while …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780765395412 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 076539541X |
| Author: | JY Yang |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | Tor Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | The Tensorate Series |
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Critics Review
“Joyously wild stuff. Highly recommended.” –The New York Times
“Yang conjures up a world of magic and machines, wild monsters and sophisticated civilizations, that you’ll want to return to again and again.” –Ars Technica
“Full of love and loss, confrontation and discovery. Each moment is a glistening pearl, all strung together in a wonder of world-creation.” – Ken Liu, Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award winner and author of The Grace of Kings and The Paper Menagerie
“I love Neon Yang’s effortlessly fascinating world-building.” –Kate Elliott, author of Black Wolves and Court of Fives
“A fascinating world of battles, politics, magic and romance.” –Zen Cho, author of Sorcerer to the Crown
“Filled with memorable characters and set in a wonderfully imaginative and original universe.” –Aliette de Bodard, Nebula Award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings
“Like a Miyazaki movie decided to jump off the screen and sear itself into prose, and in doing so became something entirely new.” –Indrapramit Das, author of The Devourers
“Relentlessly captivating, heartbreaking, and powerful.” –Fran Wilde, award-winning, Nebula & Hugo-nominated author of Updraft, Cloudbound, and Horizon
“Yang’s prose carries the reader along… A really good book.” –Locus
“Yang’s writing is quiet, but it is the quiet of strength. It doesn’t need to shout to be heard.” –Michelle West for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Yang captures an epic sweep in compact, precise prose.” –Publishers Weekly starred review
About The Author
JY Yang
JY Yang is a lapsed journalist, a former practicing scientist, and a master of hermitry. A queer, non-binary, postcolonial intersectional feminist, they have over two dozen pieces of short fiction published or forthcoming in places including Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons and Tor.com. They live in Singapore, edit fiction at Epigram Books, and have a MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.
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