![]() ![]() It seems a bit thin, as premises go, but I assure you that what follows is anything but. But then become separated at the Market outside the Tower itself, and the quest to reunite sets off a series of events that easily fills four novels and probably could’ve managed five. ![]() So I’ll retreat to the premise: stuffy schoolteacher Thomas Senlin takes his young wife on a honeymoon at the wondrous Tower of Babel. The plot of the first book is hard to describe, and the late-arriving series plot is not something to spoil before starting. But after a nearly two-year journey through the recently-completed tetralogy, I’m comfortable saying that the origin story has nothing on the series itself. The story of how the world came to know about The Books of Babel is pretty compelling on its own. If you’re not on the fantasy subreddit, or if you’re not a follower of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, you may not know the story of Senlin Ascends, a book that languished in obscurity for years before a last-ditch entry in SPFBO sparked a chain of events that turned it into something of a cult classic and ultimately led to Josiah Bancroft accepting a four-book deal with Orbit. ![]()
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