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.
Gladstone is a graduate of Yale University where he studied Chinese.
Career
The Craft Sequence
Gladstone's first novel,
Three Parts Dead, was published by
Tor Books on October 2, 2012 to positive reception.
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.
Serial Box Publishing
In September 2015,
Realm Media 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.
The first season ran from September to December 2015 for 16 episodes: Gladstone wrote the pilot as well as episodes 7, 11, and 16.
In January 2016, Serial Box renewed
Bookburners for a second season, set to premiere in Summer 2016.
Gladstone's newest serial, The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, co-created with Lindsay Smith, launched in January 2016 from Serial Box.
Other work
Gladstone is to write a
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game tie-in novel for
Paizo.
Since 2016, he is also part of the team of writers working on George R. R. Martin's
Wild Cards anthology series.
, a fantasy road trip novel, was announced for publication in 2018 by Tor Books but has not yet seen print.
Gladstone's novel
Empress of Forever, a
space opera, was published in 2019.
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.
Bibliography
Novels
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Empress of Forever (2019),
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Last Exit (2022),
The Craft Sequence
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Three Parts Dead (2012),
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Two Serpents Rise (2013),
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Full Fathom Five (2014),
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Last First Snow (2015),
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Four Roads Cross (2016),
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The Ruin of Angels (2017),
The Craft Wars
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Dead Country (2023),
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Wicked Problems (2024),
Standalone novella
Serial fiction
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Bookburners (created by Gladstone)
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Bookburners Season One (with Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, and Brian Francis Slattery) (2017)
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Episode 1: "Badge, Book, and Candle" (2015)
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Episode 7: "Now and Then" (2015)
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Episode 11: "Codex Umbra" (2015)
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Episode 16: "Siege" (2015)
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Bookburners Season Two (with Dunlap, Lafferty, Slattery, Andrea Phillips, and Amal El-Mohtar)
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Episode 1: "Creepy Town" (2016)
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Episode 6: "Incognita" (2016)
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Episode 13: "The End of the Day" (2016)
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Bookburners Season Three (with Dunlap, Lafferty, Phillips, and Slattery)
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Episode 1: "Bubbles of Earth" (2017)
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Episode 6: "Oracle Bones" (2017)
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Episode 13: "Live in London" (2017)
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Bookburners Season Four (with Dunlap, Lafferty, Phillips, and Slattery)
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Episode 1: "Body Problems" (2018)
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Episode 10: "Alexandria Leaving" (2018)
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The Witch Who Came in from the Cold (co-created by Gladstone & Lindsay Smith)
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The Witch Who Came in from the Cold Season One (with Lindsay Smith, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ian Tregillis, and Michael Swanwick) (forthcoming, 2017)
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Episode 1: "A Long, Cold Winter" (with Lindsay Smith, 2016)
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Episode 3: "Double Blind" (2016)
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Episode 9: "Head Case" (2016)
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Episode 13: "Company Time" (with Lindsay Smith, 2016)
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The Witch Who Came in from the Cold Season Two (with Smith, Clarke, Tregillis, and Fran Wilde)
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Episode 2: "Complicating Factors" (2017)
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Episode 8: "What's Gone, What's Left Behind" (2017)
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Episode 11: "Absent Friends" (2017)
Interactive fiction
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Choice of the Deathless (2013)
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Deathless: The City's Thirst (2015)
Both games, published by Choice of Games, are set in the
Craft Sequence universe.
Short fiction
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"The Mask on the Island", On The Premises Magazine #3 (2007)
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"On Starlit Seas", The Book of Exodi, ed. Michael K. Eidson (2009)
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"The Four Modernizations", Necrotic Tissue #9 (2010)
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"Drona's Death", xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths, ed. Kate Bernheimer (2013)
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"The Angelus Guns", Tor.com, ed. Marco Palmieri (2014)
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"A Kiss With Teeth", Tor.com, ed. Marco Palmieri, (2014)
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"Man in the Middle", Shared Nightmares, eds. Steven Diamond an Nathan Shumate (2014)
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"Late Nights at the Cape and Cane", Uncanny Magazine (2014)
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"The Iron Man", The Grimm Future, ed. Erin Underwood (2016)
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"Big Thrull and the Askin’ Man", Uncanny Magazine (2016)
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"Giants in the Sky", The Starlit Wood, eds. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (2016)
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"The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom", Tor.com, ed. Marco Palmieri (2017)
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"Crispin's Model", Tor.com, ed. Marco Palmieri (2017)
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"To a Cloven Pie", Robots vs. Fairies, eds. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (2018)
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"Fitting In: A Wild Cards Story", Tor.com, ed. George R. R. Martin (2018)
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"The Secret Life of Rubberband", Texas Hold'em, ed. George R. R. Martin (2018)
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"The Man Who Captured Luke Skywalker", From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, (Del Rey, August 2023)
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