Senlin Ascends
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
"One of my favorite books of all time" — Mark Lawrence
The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. It is a world of geniuses and tyrants, of luxury and menace, of unusual animals and mysterious machines.
Soon after arriving for his honeymoon at the Tower, the mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, Thomas Senlin, gets separated from his wife, Marya, in the overwhelming swarm of tourists, residents, and miscreants.
Senlin is determined to find Marya, but to do so he'll have to navigate madhouses, ballrooms, and burlesque theaters. He must survive betrayal, assassins, and the illusions of the Tower. But if he hopes to find his wife, he will have to do more than just endure.
This quiet man of letters must become a man of action.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Josiah Bancroft. (2017). Senlin Ascends. Orbit.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Josiah Bancroft. 2017. Senlin Ascends. Orbit.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends. Orbit, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Josiah Bancroft. Senlin Ascends. Orbit, 2017.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 3 | 0 |
There are 2 holds on this title.
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/{DF34E95D-4958-479E-95F8-DFC8CF93FBBE}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0017-1/{DF34E95D-4958-479E-95F8-DFC8CF93FBBE}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0017-1/DF3/4E9/5D/{DF34E95D-4958-479E-95F8-DFC8CF93FBBE}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0017-1/DF3/4E9/5D/{DF34E95D-4958-479E-95F8-DFC8CF93FBBE}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780316517904
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B074M62D7Y
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780316517904
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780316517904
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Josiah Bancroft
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Senlin Ascends
- seriesId
- 1531168
- dateAdded
- 2018-01-25T22:47:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=3296527
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- Senlin Ascends The Books of Babel Series Book 01
- crossRefId
- 3296527
- series
- The Books of Babel
- id
- DF34E95D-4958-479E-95F8-DFC8CF93FBBE
- starRating
- 4
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: SenlinAscends_9780316517904_3296527
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 6891026
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780316517904
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 8/23/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=df34e95d-4958-479e-95f8-dfc8cf93fbbe&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: SenlinAscends_3296527
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B074M62D7Y
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 8/23/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=df34e95d-4958-479e-95f8-dfc8cf93fbbe&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: SenlinAscends_9780316517904_3296527
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 4056185
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780316517904
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 8/23/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=df34e95d-4958-479e-95f8-dfc8cf93fbbe&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Bancroft, Josiah
- bioText:
Josiah Bancroft started writing novels when he was twelve, and by the time he finished his first, he was an addict. Eventually, the writing of Senlin Ascends began, a fantasy adventure, not so unlike the stories that got him addicted to words in the first place. He wanted to do for others what his favorite writers had done for him: namely, to pick them up and to carry them to a wonderful and perilous world that is spinning very fast. If he's done that with this book, then he's happy.
Josiah lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Sharon, their daughter Maddie, and their two rabbits, Mabel and Chaplin.
- name: Josiah Bancroft
- publishDate
- 2017-08-22T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Senlin Ascends
- fullDescription
- The first book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon debut fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world.
"One of my favorite books of all time" — Mark Lawrence
The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. It is a world of geniuses and tyrants, of luxury and menace, of unusual animals and mysterious machines.
Soon after arriving for his honeymoon at the Tower, the mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, Thomas Senlin, gets separated from his wife, Marya, in the overwhelming swarm of tourists, residents, and miscreants.
Senlin is determined to find Marya, but to do so he'll have to navigate madhouses, ballrooms, and burlesque theaters. He must survive betrayal, assassins, and the illusions of the Tower. But if he hopes to find his wife, he will have to do more than just endure.
This quiet man of letters must become a man of action. - seriesId
- 523451
- reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
Starred review from October 30, 2017
Bancroft’s brilliant debut fantasy, first in a planned series, stars the eponymous Thomas Senlin, a provincial schoolmaster. Thomas and his wife, Marya, honeymoon at the Tower of Babel, a notable tourist attraction. No one knows how high the tower is, as its upper stories are hidden behind a permanent fog, and many other things about it are also mysterious and dangerous. Upon losing Marya in the massive crowd around the tower’s base, Thomas begins to climb in the hope of meeting her again. Every one of the tower’s staggeringly original individual rooms, many of which have their own cultures, could make a setting for a novel all by itself, and the suspenseful plot and cleverly handled side characters add to the surfeit of riches. The relationship between Thomas and Marya is touching, well-established, and, most importantly, egalitarian. At once steampunk and epic, surreal and yet grounded in believable logistics, this novel goes off like a firework and suggests even greater things in the author’s future. Agent: Ian Drury, Sheil Land Associates.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
December 1, 2017
In his debut novel, Bancroft takes readers into a steampunk world revolving around the great attraction and mystery that is the Tower of Babel--a colossal structure rising up into the heavens that devours the unwary with intrigue and danger.One such unwary is Thomas Senlin, a school headmaster from a small fishing village, whose rosy ideas of the Tower lead him to honeymoon there with his young bride, Marya. But the two villagers are unprepared for the "big city"--especially a city so capricious and indifferent as the Tower turns out to be. Thomas loses track of Marya before even making it inside the Tower's gargantuan walls, and from there he begins his desperate quest to find her within the Tower's heights. The naive and awkward headmaster is thrust into a world of treachery, drugs, hedonism, art, theft, airships, political feuding, soul-numbing violence, and above all secrets--secrets that he begins to see form a whole and a clue to the Tower's true nature. Will Thomas be able to keep his soul as he learns the Tower's often deadly rules, or will he simply be one more person broken by the Tower? (The true import of Thomas' quest won't be found here--there's a sequel coming, naturally.) Through it all, Marya seems to drift just out of his grip--but in her place, Thomas painstakingly assembles a ragtag team of allies and friends, if friendship can ever be true in a place where loyalty is just another currency and the powers that be have placed a price on Thomas' head.The lush setting holds the reader through a slow start, but once the plot gets going, it ticks along with the tight precision and artistry of a well-wound watch.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
November 15, 2017
This series opener follows the transformation of judgmental headmaster Thomas Senlin, tourist, into something entirely different. He and his new bride, Marya, begin on their honeymoon, traveling to the fantastic Tower of Babel. Almost immediately, Marya is whisked away by the crowds. As Thomas journeys through the drama and pitfalls of the tower, from the beer pits of the first level to the theater of the second and beyond, he learns that perhaps the world is more complicated and messy than he'd thought. Senlin is something of a bumbling rube, which allows the reader to learn about the world as the lead character does. The Tower of Babel holds great promise: there is clearly more going on there than meets the eye, even as Thomas becomes aware of more and more of its nuances. The pacing seems slowthere is a long, long buildup as Thomas tries to find any trace of Marya and a whirlwind conclusion leading into the next phase of Senlin's storybut it allows for in-depth development of the setting.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
- popularity
- 1209
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/df34e95d-4958-479e-95f8-dfc8cf93fbbe/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- df34e95d-4958-479e-95f8-dfc8cf93fbbe
- starRating
- 4
- readingOrder
- 1
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/{DF34E95D-4958-479E-95F8-DFC8CF93FBBE}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0017-1/{DF34E95D-4958-479E-95F8-DFC8CF93FBBE}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0017-1/DF3/4E9/5D/{DF34E95D-4958-479E-95F8-DFC8CF93FBBE}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0017-1/DF3/4E9/5D/{DF34E95D-4958-479E-95F8-DFC8CF93FBBE}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fantasy
- value: Fiction
- value: Historical Fiction
- publishDateText
- 08/22/2017
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780316517904
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- The first book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon debut fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world.
"One of my favorite books of all time" — Mark Lawrence
The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. It is a world of geniuses and tyrants, of luxury and menace, of unusual animals and mysterious machines.
Soon after arriving for his honeymoon at the Tower, the mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, Thomas Senlin, gets separated from his wife, Marya, in the overwhelming swarm of tourists, residents, and miscreants.
Senlin is determined to find Marya, but to do so he'll have to navigate madhouses, ballrooms, and burlesque theaters. He must survive betrayal, assassins, and the illusions of the Tower. But if he hopes to find his wife, he will have to do more than just... - sortTitle
- Senlin Ascends The Books of Babel Series Book 01
- crossRefId
- 3296527
- series
- The Books of Babel
- publisher
- Orbit
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC009020
- description: Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
- code: FIC009030
- description: Fiction / Fantasy / Historical
- code: FIC009100
- description: Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure
