![]() ![]() ![]() The book is a steampunkish novel set in a fictional tower of Babel where a teacher and his new bride go on a honeymoon, only to be swept into the tumultuous world contained by the tower. Yet, he seems to have kept at it, as this is just the first book of a series of four books (and a series of shorts). It is possible that Bancroft found it as hard to torture his protagonist as I found it to bear reading about it. This also does make the last quarter of the book a little jarring, as the winds suddenly blow in a slightly different direction. The book is very well written, but starts by destroying your faith in humanity. The naïve character that never seems to catch a break and keeps getting abused by an uncaring world makes it hard to enjoy. Have to admit that I've found it difficult to keep reading the book. ![]() Josiah Bancroft writes this in his own voice, slowly building both the world and the characters. Senlin Ascends reminded me of many things: the intellectual protagonist, lost in a world that feels part dream like in Zamyatin's We, a metaphorical world that reflects our own social order like in Snowpiercer, the cruel tourist traps hiding horror like in Song of Kali. ![]()
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