The Ascent to Godhood

, #4

Paperback, 128 pages

Published July 29, 2019 by Tor.com.

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978-1-250-16588-6
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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.

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The Ascent to Godhood

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This is the final novella in the Tensorate series. The narrative setup here is that Lady Han (leader of the Machinists) is in a bar mourning; the book itself is her retelling the story of her past relationship with Hecate the now-dead Protector to (an implied an off page) pirate queen Kayan as the audience (along with the reader). This is not really a spoiler as it happens in the opening paragraph.

(Aside: this may be the only book I've ever known that has a pirate queen in multiple books who manages to remain entirely off page!!)

It's an interesting choice to me to have the final book focus on Akeha and Mokoya's mother Hecate, the hated antagonist from book one and the head of the Protectorate. It's also quite a choice to start the book off with Hecate dead and to talk entirely about the past rather than about …

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