SFF Author: Max Gladstone

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Three Parts Dead: A wonderfully inventive story

Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone Three Parts Dead (2012) is a wonderfully inventive story. Max Gladstone blends a plethora of ideas, ranging from vampires to magic to steampunk technology and adds interesting characters and a plot that is predictable but still enjoyable. The result is memorable. Tara is a recently expelled student in the art […]

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Empress of Forever: Thrilling space opera, but it is science fiction?

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone Max Gladstone’s Empress of Forever (2019) is definitely space opera. In a far distant future, tech genius, entrepreneur and loner Vivian Liao travels from planet to planet and system to system trying to find an advantage in a losing war against an all-powerful space empress. Viv, who is plucked […]

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Last Exit: Complex, compelling, and intense

Reposting to include Marion’s new review. Last Exit by Max Gladstone Here is Max Gladstone’s recipe for a Last Exit (2022) cocktail: One part fervent, confident intensity of young adulthood One part fever dream (or nightmare) of magic and alternate worlds Add bitters in the form of mid-life fears, regrets, and resignations born out of […]

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Magazine Monday: Uncanny Magazine, Issues One and Two

Uncanny Magazine is a new bimonthly internet publication edited by Lynn M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas. The editors have explained their mission this way: We chose the name Uncanny because we wanted a publication that has the feel of a contemporary magazine with a history — one that evolved from a fantastic pulp. Uncanny […]

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SHORTS: Gladstone, Chiang, Bolander, Johnston, Swanwick, Vaughn

Our weekly sampling of free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are some great stories that caught our eyes this week: “A Kiss With Teeth” by Max Gladstone (2014, free at Tor.com, 99c Kindle Version) Within the first two paragraphs “A Kiss With Teeth” has outlined an unusual premise: a vampire masquerades as human […]

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SHORTS: Gladstone, Kress, Khaw, Ndoro, Seiner

Our exploration of free and inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we’ve read recently that we wanted you to know about.  “Crispin’s Model” by Max Gladstone (Oct. 2017, free at Tor.com, 99c Kindle version) A young woman, Delilah Dane, moves from Savannah to New York City to pursue her theatrical dreams; […]

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The Witch Who Came in from the Cold: Spy vs. Spy in the city of a hundred spires

The Witch Who Came in from the Cold by Lindsay Smith, Max Gladstone, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ian Tregillis & Michael Swanwick The Witch Who Came in from the Cold (2017) is a study in contradictions. It’s a collaborative novel that feels seamless despite the five contributing authors: Lindsay Smith, Max Gladstone, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ian […]

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The New Voices of Fantasy: A diverse and worthy collection

The New Voices of Fantasy edited by Peter Beagle This collection of nineteen fantasy short works, edited by Peter Beagle, is definitely worthwhile if you like speculative short fiction. Many of them left an impact on me, and a few are true standouts. These stories are by relatively new authors in the speculative fiction genre and are […]

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