Six years. That’s a damn long time. After six years of writing speculative fiction, JY Yang finally finds themselves at the end of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Tensorate series, with the fourth and final volume, The Ascent to Godhood, out in July this year.
As a postcolonial feminist writer who deals specifically with gender, cultural imperialism and structures of power in their work, JY Yang is currently embarking on the epic journey of crafting their first novel-length work of fiction. Described as a far-future space opera centred on the descendants of a doomed generation ship, it has giant robots, space stations under siege, emperors and hierophants, holy artifacts and faster-than-light travel. It is Joan of Arc meets Gundam. It sounds nothing short of amazing.
NEW TERRAIN / NEW WORKS will feature JY Yang delivering a lecture on world-building as they understand it – a process which no doubt presents newer and more unique challenges to any writer dealing with speculative storytelling. An informal book-signing session will then follow the lecture.
The lecture begins at 5pm; door opens at 4.45pm. We will be charging guests $5 / entry at the door. Guests are strongly encouraged to bring their copies of the Tensorate novellas. They will also be treated to lots of tea, cat nuzzling and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s async, for those suffering from chronic SIFA-related FOMO.
JY Yang is the author of the Tensorate series of novellas from Tor.Com Publishing (The Red Threads of Fortune, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Descent of Monsters and The Ascent to Godhood, available in 2019). Their work has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda Literary and World Fantasy Awards, while their short fiction has been published in over a dozen venues, including Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and Strange Horizons.
JY is queer, non-binary, and lives in Singapore. Find them online at http://jyyang.com, or on Twitter: @halleluyang.
VENUE: Sing Lit Station
ADDRESS: 22 Dickson Road, #02-01, Singapore 209506
EVENT WEBSITE: Facebook, Sing Lit Station
DATE AND TIME
13 Apr 2019, 4.45pm–6pm. $5.