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the tensorate series
Welcome to Ea. A planet where extreme weather carves through continents and seas. Where the sun rises and sets six times a day. Where immense monsters grow in bands of low gravity.
The Protectorate has sunk its talons across the width of the Full Lands, imposing order through military might and the skills of its highly-trained Tensors– adepts at the art of slackcraft. Lady Sanao Hekate, the Protector, has consolidated immense power over the years of her reign.
Yet Protectorate society is fracturing. From the mire of resistance against the Protector’s brutal rule emerges a group dedicated to eliminating people’s reliance on slackcraft: the Machinists.
Against the backdrop of this unrest, the Protector births a pair of twins, a blood price to the Grand Monastery for their help in crushing a rebellion. Little does she suspect the roles these children will play in shaping the future of the Protectorate.
The Tensorate series comprises four novellas that experiment with form and storytelling. They will challenge your understanding of gender, and impel you to expand your concept of what epic fantasy can be.
The Black tides of heaven
finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy awards for Best Novella, 2018
Sanao Akeha lives in the shadow of their twin Mokoya, who has developed prophetic abilities. Struggling with their place in life and sense of self, they abandon their family to find new purpose: opposing their mother’s iron rule. Buy here
The red threads of Fortune
Otherwise Award honor list, 2018
Deep in grief, Sanao Mokoya roams the desert hunting giant winged naga, trying to forget her past. But her past won’t release her so easily. On a mission pursuing a naga of unusual size, she falls deep into a tangle of conspiracy that stretches all the way to her estranged mother’s palace… Buy here
The Descent Of Monsters
finalist for the Locus and Lambda Literary awards for Best Novella, 2019
Something terrible has happened at the Rewar Teng Institute of Experimental Methods, and the rebels Sanao Akeha and Rider are thought to be at fault. But as Investigator Chuwan is about to find out, the official story only papers over the truth. Buy here
the ascent to godhood
finalist for the Locus Award for Best Novella, 2020
The Protector is dead, long live the Protector. Searching for the answers to her own tragedy, a young woman meets, in a tavern, the one who was the Protector’s first love, who later became her greatest enemy, who is telling their story to anyone who will listen. Buy here
ANTHOLOGIES +
The new voices of fantasy
ed. Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weissman. Contains a reprint of my story “Tiger Baby”.
worlds seen in passing
ed. Irene Gallo. Contains a reprint of my story “Waiting On A Bright Moon”.
the book of dragons
ed. Jonathan Strahan. Contains my original story “The Exile”.
The Mythic Dream
ed. Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe. Contains my original story “Bridge of Crows”.
The Best Of Uncanny
ed. Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas. Contains a reprint of my story “Auspicium Melioris Aevi”.
The Djinn Falls In Love & Other Stories
ed. Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin. Contains my original story “Glass Lights”.