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 […]
Read MoreJohn Hulet, Kat Hooper, Marion Deeds and Bill Capossere´s rating: 5 | Max Gladstone | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone Two Serpents Rise (2013) is the second book by Max Gladstone and is set in the same world as Three Parts Dead. I struggle to define the “genre” that this series fits into. There are elements of urban fantasy and steampunk, but none of that really fits. It doesn’t matter […]
Read MoreJohn Hulet, Kat Hooper and Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Max Gladstone | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone With each book in THE CRAFT SEQUENCE series I feel more and more out of joint, but intrigued at the same time. Max Gladstone continues to play with concepts like gods and souls in ways that feel very familiar and completely alien all at once. Throw in a lot […]
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Last First Snow by Max Gladstone I will admit upfront that it took me quite a while to get through Last First Snow (2015), the fourth book in Max Gladstone’s CRAFT SEQUENCE, which would seem weird considering how much I enjoyed the other books in the series. At this point, I am just very glad that […]
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Four Roads Cross by Max Gladstone I can’t describe how much fun it was to be back with Tara Abernathy in Alt Coulumb in Four Roads Cross (2016), Max Gladstone’s fifth book in the CRAFT SEQUENCE. In Tara’s world, a year has passed since Three Parts Dead, and Tara has been working hard in the city of […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds and Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5, 5 | Max Gladstone | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone Ruin of Angels, published in 2017, is Max Gladstone’s sixth book in the CRAFT series. This story follows Kai, a priestess we met in Full Fathom Five. Kai is a, well, a “venture priestess.” She creates internal spiritual spaces for clients, and invests in projects that reach into the […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds and Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Max Gladstone | SFF Reviews | | 7 comments |
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone To: Reviewer Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone are coming out with a new book — This Is How You Lose the Time War — and I was wondering when you would finally get around to reviewing it. Reader To: Reader Contrary […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
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 […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds and Kat Hooper´s rating: 3, 4.5 | Max Gladstone | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
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 […]
Read MoreBill Capossere and Marion Deeds´s rating: 5 | Max Gladstone | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 10 comments |
Dead Country by Max Gladstone Dead Country (2023) is Max Gladstone’s seventh title in his highly recommended CRAFT series (OK, technically, it’s the start of a new trilogy entitled CRAFT WARS), which might make some readers who sadly have yet to wade into the series hesitant to pick it up. But in some ways, Dead […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Max Gladstone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
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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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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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; […]
Read MoreJana Nyman, Tadiana Jones and Skye Walker | Max Gladstone, Nancy Kress | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
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 […]
Read MoreJana Nyman´s rating: 4.5 | Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ian Tregillis, Max Gladstone, Michael Swanwick | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
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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Today we welcome Max Gladstone, author of Three Parts Dead which I found to be inventive and enjoyable. Max wants to know how you feel about gods as characters in speculative fiction. One commenter will win a hardcover copy of Three Parts Dead. Thanks for joining us, Max! When my book Three Parts Dead came out, as I […]
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We’re pleased to once more welcome Max Gladstone, author of the excellent CRAFT series. Max is here to talk about the psychic origins of some of his influences and to ask about images and ideas that linger on in your mind. One commenter will win a copy of Max’s new book Two Serpents Rise which […]
Read MoreJohn Hulet | Max Gladstone | Feature, Thoughtful Thursday | | 12 comments |
Max Gladstone writes the CRAFT SEQUENCE which we love not only for its unique characters, world and plot, but for its awesome cover art. The most recent CRAFT book, Last First Snow, was released last week. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet (can’t wait!), but I’m assuming it’s got some amazing fight scenes in […]
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