Max Gladstone

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Max Gladstone
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Max Gladstone at Worldcon in Helsinki 2017.
Born (1984-04-28) April 28, 1984 (age 39)
Occupation Novelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Yale University
Genre Urban fantasy
Fantasy
Years active2012–present
Notable worksThree Parts Dead
Bookburners
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Website
maxgladstone.com

Max Gladstone (born May 28, 1984) is an American fantasy author. He is best known for his 2012 debut novel Three Parts Dead, which is part of The Craft Sequence , his urban fantasy serial Bookburners, and for co-writing This Is How You Lose the Time War .

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Gladstone is a graduate of Yale University where he studied Chinese. [1] He has worked in China, including as a teacher [2] in a rural area of Anhui from 2006 to 2008 and as a translator for a car magazine. [3] In 2013, Gladstone was a finalist for the 2012 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. [4]

Career

The Craft Sequence

Gladstone's first novel, Three Parts Dead, was published by Tor Books on October 2, 2012 to positive reception. [5] [6] It was followed by Two Serpents Rise in 2013, Full Fathom Five in 2014, Last First Snow in 2015, and Four Roads Cross in 2016, all part of his Craft Sequence. The sixth novel, Ruin of Angels, was published by Tor.com in 2017. It will be followed by both novel and novella-length works starting in 2018. [7]

Serial Box Publishing

In September 2015, Serial Box Publishing launched Bookburners, a weekly urban fantasy serial created by Gladstone and written by a team of authors consisting of himself, Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, and Brian Francis Slattery. [8] The first season ran from September to December 2015 for 16 episodes: Gladstone wrote the pilot as well as episodes 7, 11, and 16. [9] In January 2016, Serial Box renewed Bookburners for a second season, set to premiere in Summer 2016. [10]

Gladstone's newest serial, The Witch Who Came in from the Cold , co-created with Lindsay Smith, launched in January 2016 from Serial Box. [11] The serial, written by Gladstone, Smith, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ian Tregillis, and Michael Swanwick, is a Cold War supernatural spy thriller set in the 1970s. [12] The first season is set to run for 13 episodes. Simon & Schuster's Saga Press imprint released print collections of the first season of Bookburners in January 2017. [13] A collection of season one of The Witch Who Came in From the Cold will be published in June 2017. [14]

Other work

Gladstone is to write a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game tie-in novel for Paizo Publishing. [15] Since 2016, he is also part of the team of writers working on George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards anthology series. [16] The Highway Kind, a fantasy road trip novel, was announced for publication in 2018 by Tor Books but has not yet seen print. [7] Gladstone's novel Empress of Forever, a space opera, was published in 2019. [17]

Gladstone's novella This Is How You Lose the Time War, written with Amal El-Mohtar, won the 2019 BSFA Award for Short Fiction and the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novella. [18] [19] [20]

Bibliography

Novels

Novellas

The Craft Sequence

In order of publication
  1. Three Parts Dead (2012), ISBN   978-0765333100
  2. Two Serpents Rise (2013), ISBN   978-0765333124
  3. Full Fathom Five (2014), ISBN   978-0-7653-3574-6
  4. Last First Snow (2015), ISBN   978-0-7653-7940-5
  5. Four Roads Cross (2016), ISBN   978-1466868410
  6. The Ruin of Angels (2017), ISBN   978-0-7653-9589-4 [21]
In internal chronological order [22]
  1. Last First Snow
  2. Two Serpents Rise
  3. Three Parts Dead
  4. Four Roads Cross
  5. Full Fathom Five
  6. The Ruin of Angels

The Craft Wars

  1. Dead Country (2023), ISBN   978-0765395917 [23]

Serial fiction

Interactive fiction

Both games, published by Choice of Games, are set in the Craft Sequence universe.

Short fiction

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References

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  2. ↑ Ay-leen the Peacemaker (30 October 2012). "Max Gladstone Brings the Gods to Court in Three Parts Dead". Tor.com . Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Landon, Justin (1 October 2012). "Interview with Max Gladstone, author of Three Parts Dead". Staffer's Book Review. Archived from the original on 22 May 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "2013 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 22 December 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
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  6. ↑ Tilahun, Naamen (14 November 2012). "Three Parts Dead mixes magic with courtroom drama". io9. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
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