num_pages: 448
description: 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 airships and steam engines 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 long guns of a flying fortress. 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.The first book in the stunning and strange debut fantasy series that's receiving major praise from some of fantasy's biggest authors such as Mark Lawrence and Django Wexler.
language: English
title: Senlin Ascends
publisher: Orbit