The Descent of Monsters, Neon Yang
The Descent of Monsters, Neon Yang
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The Descent of Monsters

Author: Neon Yang

Narrator: Nancy Wu

Unabridged: 3 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2019

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic


Synopsis

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?

About Neon Yang

Neon Yang (they/them) is a queer non-binary author based in the UK. They have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Lambda Literary, Ignyte, and Locus Awards, and their Tensorate series of novells (The Red Threads of Fortune, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Descent of Monsters and The Ascent to Godhood) was an Otherwise Award Honoree. In previous incarnations, Neon was a molecular biologist, a science communicator, a writer for animation, games and comic studios, and a journalist for one of Singapore's major papers.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Magrat

Un consejo: Leed esta saga sin prejuicios y simplemente dejaos llevar por lo que quiere contar Yang, disfrutad del viaje porque es toda una experiencia. Para mucha gente este puede ser el libro menos atractivo de la saga pero yo no os miento si os digo que es de mis preferidos. Hay una razón por la qu......more

Out of the three Tensorate novellas I have read, this one is definitely my favorite. The set up of this novel is a bit different from the first two, expounding on the monster hunting story line established in The Red Threads of Fortune. This one, however, is set up mostly in the form of letters/trans......more

Goodreads review by Kai

I'm not sure if I can pick a favourite between this and the first book in the series. I loved how this story was structured and I found it a fascinating method to tell a story. The writing is beautiful, the use of curse words completely on point. I would love for this world to be expanded because it......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

This novella goes the epistolary format in a big way. Very enjoyable to me! :) This time we get a harried and *hat upon investigator who is given no support from her superiors. Big surprise, right? But she's still required to figure out what happened to the boneyard that is the focus of this novella.......more

Todo indica que un horrible suceso ha tenido lugar en el Insitituo Experimental Rewar Teng, por ello el Tensorado enviará a un grupo de investigadores para que descubran que ocurrió, pero allí solo encuentrarán cadáveres, y estos no solo serán humanos. Parece ser que uno de los experimentos más secr......more