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Senlin Ascends


A Fantasy Novel


Book 1 of the Babel Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Quest,
  • Labyrinth,
  • Lost Loved One,
  • Steampunk,
  • Reluctant Hero
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Labyrinthine worlds stacked with bizarre societies and hidden dangers
  • Quiet protagonists forced into wild adventure by love and loss
  • Fantasy settings where every level brings new rules and threats
Publisher Description

The first book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon debut fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world.

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.

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