PRAISE FOR THE TENSORATE SERIES Joyously wild stuff. Highly recommended. --The New York Times Yang's masterful world building is on display, from the manipulation of the metaphysical slack to the creatures who inhabit the harsh mountains, made even more impressive by the nonlinear narrative structure. The Old World feel of their silkpunk fantasy is made modern by smoothly interwoven gender-nonbinary characters, whose richness enhances the emotional impact of this short but compelling work. --Booklist on The Descent of Monsters Yang conjures up a world of magic and machines, wild monsters and sophisticated civilizations, that you'll want to return to again and again. --Annalee Newitz for 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 JY 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 on The Black Tides of Heaven Yang deftly creates a world infused with magic, story, and hierarchy. --Joel Cunningham, B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog 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 on The Black Tides of Heaven
