Neon Yang

The Genesis of Misery

A finalist for the 2019 Lammy Award for best LGBTQ SF/F/Horror and the Locus Award for Best Novella Neon Yang continues to redefine the limits of silkpunk fantasy with their Tensorate novellas, which the New York Times 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 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 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. Investigator 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? The Tensorate Series Book 1: The Black Tides of Heaven Book 2: The Red Threads of Fortune Book 3: The Descent of Monsters Book 4: The Ascent to Godhood

The Descent of Monsters

Neon Yang's space opera "Waiting on a Bright Moon" is a Tor.com Original short story Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and its far-flung colonies— a role that is forced upon magically-gifted women “of a certain closeness”. When a dead body comes through her portal at a time of growing rebellion, Xin is drawn deep into a station-wide conspiracy along with Ouyang Suqing, one of the station’s mysterious, high-ranking starmages At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Tor.com Original

Waiting on a Bright Moon

"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 to Neon Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Red Threads of Fortune, available simultaneously. Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as infants. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While Mokoya received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What's more, they saw the sickness at the heart of their mother's Protectorate. A rebellion is growing. The Machinists discover new levers to move the world every day, while the Tensors fight to put them down and preserve the power of the state. Unwilling to continue as a pawn in their mother's twisted schemes, Akeha leaves the Tensorate behind and falls in with the rebels. But every step Akeha takes towards the Machinists is a step away from Mokoya. Can Akeha find peace without shattering the bond they share with their twin? The Tensorate Series Book 1: The Black Tides of Heaven Book 2: The Red Threads of Fortune Book 3: The Descent of Monsters Book 4: The Ascent to Godhood At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Black Tides of Heaven

It's an old, familiar story: a young person hears the voice of an angel saying they have been chosen as a warrior to lead their people to victory in a holy war. But Misery Nomaki knows they are a fraud. Raised on a remote moon colony, they don't believe in any kind of god. Their angel is a delusion, brought on by hereditary space exposure. Yet their survival banks on mastering the holy mech they are supposedly destined for, and convincing the Emperor of the Faithful that they are the real deal. The deeper they get into their charade, however, the more they start to doubt their convictions. A retelling of Joan of Arc's story given a space opera, giant robot twist, The Genesis of Misery is a story about the nature of truth, the power of belief, and the interplay of both in the stories we tell ourselves. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Tensorate Series, which has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, and Lambda Literary Awards, is an incomparable treasure of modern epic fantasy. Across four novellas, Neon Yang established themself as a fantasist in bold defiance of the limitations of their genre. Available now in a single volume, these four novellas trace the generational decline of an empire and unfurl a world that is rich and strange beyond anything you've dreamed. In the Tensorate Series you will find: rebellious nonbinary scions of empire, sky-spanning nagas with experimental souls, revolutionary engineers bent on bringing power to the people, pugilist monks, packs of loyal raptors, and much, much more. The Tensorate Series omnibus contains The Black Tides of Heaven, The Red Threads of Fortune, The Descent of Monsters, and To Ascend to Godhood

(The Black Tides of Heaven, The Red Threads of Fortune, The Descent of Monsters, The Ascent to Godhood)

The Tensorate Series

Yoon Ha Lee

Aliette de Bodard

Django Wexler

Ellen Kushner

Freya Marske

K. A. Doore

Elizabeth Davis

Claire Bartlett

Ann LeBlanc

Jennifer Mace

Elaine McIonyn

Cara Patterson

Alison Tam

S. K. Terentiev

Chris Wolfgang

Kaitlyn Zivanovich

There are many ways to be a heroine. Princess and swordswoman, lawyer and motorcyclist, scholar and barbarian: there are many ways to be a heroine. In this anthology, seventeen authors find new ways to pair one weapon-wielding woman and one whose strengths lie in softer skills. "Which is more powerful, the warrior or the gentlewoman?" these stories ask. And the answer is inevitably, "Both, working together!" Herein, you'll find duels and smugglers, dance battles and danger noodles, and even a new Swordspoint story! From big names and bold new voices, these stories are fun, clever, and always positive about the power of love. Ellen Kushner * Aliette de Bodard * Yoon Ha Lee * Neon Yang * Jennifer Mace * Django Wexler * Freya Marske * Claire Bartlett * K.A. Doore * Alison Tam * Ann LeBlanc * Cara Patterson * Chris Wolfgang * Elaine McIonyn * Elizabeth Davis * S.K. Terentiev * Kaitlyn Zivanovich

A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology

Silk & Steel

“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, available simultaneously. Fallen prophet, master of the elements, and daughter of the supreme Protector, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that once bound her. Once her visions shaped the lives of citizens across the land, but no matter what tragedy Mokoya foresaw, she could never reshape the future. Broken by the loss of her young daughter, she now hunts deadly, sky-obscuring naga in the harsh outer reaches of the kingdom with packs of dinosaurs at her side, far from everything she used to love. On the trail of a massive naga that threatens the rebellious mining city of Bataanar, Mokoya meets the mysterious and alluring Rider. But all is not as it seems: the beast they both hunt harbors a secret that could ignite war throughout the Protectorate. As she is drawn into a conspiracy of magic and betrayal, Mokoya must come to terms with her extraordinary and dangerous gifts, or risk losing the little she has left to hold dear. The Tensorate Series Book 1: The Black Tides of Heaven Book 2: The Red Threads of Fortune Book 3: The Descent of Monsters Book 4: The Ascent to Godhood At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Red Threads of Fortune

Read Neon Yang's paranomal Tor.com Original short story, Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy As an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Lynette was haunted by the ghost of Mirror Boy, the drowned child who replaced her reflection. Ten years later, she’s built herself a new life, but all that is threatened when Mirror Boy returns, warning of danger. A hunter has come for both of them, and unless Lynette can figure out what’s going on, they will both perish. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy

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 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. But 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. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Ascent to Godhood

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame

Le maree nere del cielo. Il Tensorato

Genesis of Misery

La protettrice è morta. Per cinquant'anni ha governato il Tensorato conformandolo a propria immagine, relegando i nemici negli angoli più remoti. Per mezzo secolo il mondo è ruotato attorno a lei, occupata a costruire le sue armate, addestrare i Tensori, afferrare le redini del destino. Ma ora che è morta i suoi seguaci tremano, e gli avversari esultano. Solo in una lontana taverna, nel territorio ribelle, la sua più accesa rivale non gioisce: Lady Han ha fatto di tutto per deporre la Protettrice, ma ora può solo piangerne la perdita. Perché ricorda bene come tutto è cominciato, quando la Protettrice era giovane, ancora senza corona, e una danzatrice disperata osò innamorarsene.

Ascesa alla divinità

Mokoya e Akeha, le gemelle figlie della Protettrice Sanao, sono state affidate al Grande Monastero da bambine per adempiere a una promessa. Mokoya ha sviluppato un talento profetico, Akeha ha sempre avuto il dono di comprendere quali motivazioni si celano dietro le azioni degli adulti. Mokoya ha illuminazioni su ciò che sarà, Akeha comprende cosa potrebbe essere. Entrambe hanno visto il marcio che si annida nel cuore del Protettorato. Il momento della confermazione segna la prima divisione nel destino delle due gemelle. Altre ne seguiranno: Akeha infatti non vuole più essere una pedina negli intrighi orditi da sua madre, così si lascia tutto alle spalle e parte in cerca del proprio cammino, fino a che la sua strada non incrocerà quella dei Macchinisti che si ribellano allo strapotere del Tensorato. Ma ogni passo che Akeha fa per trovare se stessa la allontana da Mokoya. Riusciranno le due gemelle a compiere ciascuna il proprio destino senza rompere il legame speciale che le unisce?

Le maree nere del cielo

Sarah Gailey

Seanan McGuire

Tamsyn Muir

Duncan M. Hamilton

Cate Glass

Saad Z. Hossain

Brian Naslund

Chaotic. New. Rule-breaking fiction, Tor and Tor.com Publishing are proud to present excerpts of 2019’s most dangerously addictive new fantasy and a sneak peek at the fall lineup. Includes free sample ebook chapters from authors Seanan McGuire, Cate Glass, Sarah Gailey, Duncan M. Hamilton, Saad Z. Hossain, Brian Naslund, JY Yang, and Tamsyn Muir. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Rule-breaking new fantasy from Tor and Tor.com Publishing

Magic & Mayhem Sampler

Las mareas negras del cielo

Nghi Vo

S. L. Huang

Zen Cho

Fantasy from Asia and the Asian Diaspora is a Tordotcom Novella Sampler featuring stories by Zen Cho, Saad Z. Hossain, S. L. Huang, Nghi Vo, and JY Neon Yang... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Tordotcom Novella Sampler

Fantasy from Asia and the Asian Diaspora

The Black Tides of Heaven / The Red Threads of Fortune / The Descent of Monsters / The Ascent to Godhood

Profetessa ormai decaduta, dominatrice degli Elementi, e figlia della Protettrice, Sanao Mokoya ha deciso di cambiare vita. Un tempo le sue visioni davano forma alle vite dei suoi concittadini in tutto il paese, ma, anche se prevedeva immani tragedie, Mokoya non aveva modo di ridisegnare il futuro. Devastata dalla perdita della figlia, inizia una caccia contro i letali naga, capaci di oscurare il cielo, nelle lande più remote del regno, lontana da tutto ciò che amava, accompagnata da un branco di raptor. Seguendo le tracce di un enorme naga che minaccia la città mineraria ribelle di Bataanar, Mokoya incontra la misteriosa e affascinante Rider. Ma le cose non sono come sembrano: la bestia che entrambз inseguono nasconde un segreto che potrebbe far scoppiare la guerra in tutto il Protettorato. Invischiata in una cospirazione di magie e tradimenti, Mokoya deve venire a patti con il suo dono straordinario e pericoloso, o rischiare di perdere quel poco che ancora le è caro.

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