Max Gladstone
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. • Illustration — Historian Farah Mendlesohn and Max Gladstone at Worldcon Helsinki, 2017 Gladstone is a graduate of Yale University where he studied Chinese. He has worked in China, including as a teacher in a rural area of Anhui from 2006 to 2008 and as a translator for a car magazine.
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- Name
- Max Gladstone
- Born
- 28 May 1984
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Education
- Yale University
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- literary activity · fantasy literature · music
- Honours
- Hugo Award for Best Novella · Nebula Award for Best Novella · Ignyte Award for Best Novella · Locus Award for Best Novella · BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction
- Languages
- English
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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. • Illustration — Historian Farah Mendlesohn and Max Gladstone at Worldcon Helsinki, 2017 Gladstone is a graduate of Yale University where he studied Chinese. He has worked in China, including as a teacher in a rural area of Anhui from 2006 to 2008 and as a translator for a car magazine.
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Biography
In 2013, Gladstone was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Max Gladstone studied at Yale University and St. Andrew's-Sewanee School. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is literary activity, fantasy literature and music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are science fiction, fantasy, mystery fiction and thriller. Distinctions recorded are Hugo Award for Best Novella, Nebula Award for Best Novella, Ignyte Award for Best Novella and Locus Award for Best Novella.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Max Gladstone • Born — 28 May 1984 • Occupation — Novelist • Language — English • Education — Yale University • Genre — Urban fantasy Fantasy • Notable Works — Three Parts Dead Bookburners This Is How You Lose the Time War • Years Active — 2012–present • Website — https: maxgladstone.com/
The Craft Sequence
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
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. 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. 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. 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. A collection of season one of The Witch Who Came in From the Cold will be published in June 2017.
Other work
Other work
Gladstone is to write a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game tie-in novel for Paizo Publishing. Since 2016, he is also part of the team of writers working on George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards anthology series. The Highway Kind, 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.
Novels
Novels
• Empress of Forever (2019), • Last Exit (2022),
The Craft Sequence
The Craft Sequence
• Three Parts Dead (2012), • Two Serpents Rise (2013), • Full Fathom Five (2014), • Last First Snow (2015), • Four Roads Cross (2016), • The Ruin of Angels (2017),
The Craft Wars
The Craft Wars
• Dead Country (2023), • Wicked Problems (2024), • Dead Hand Rule (2025),
Standalone novella
Standalone novella
• This Is How You Lose the Time War (with Amal El-Mohtar, 2019),
Serial fiction
Serial fiction
• Bookburners (created by Gladstone) • Bookburners Season One (with Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, and Brian Francis Slattery) (2017) • Episode 1: "Badge, Book, and Candle" (2015) • Episode 7: "Now and Then" (2015) • Episode 11: "Codex Umbra" (2015) • Episode 16: "Siege" (2015) • Bookburners Season Two (with Dunlap, Lafferty, Slattery, Andrea Phillips, and Amal El-Mohtar) • Episode 1: "Creepy Town" (2016) • Episode 6: "Incognita" (2016) • Episode 13: "The End of the Day" (2016) • Bookburners Season Three (with Dunlap, Lafferty, Phillips, and Slattery) • Episode 1: "Bubbles of Earth" (2017) • Episode 6: "Oracle Bones" (2017) • Episode 13: "Live in London" (2017) • Bookburners Season Four (with Dunlap, Lafferty, Phillips, and Slattery) • Episode 1: "Body Problems" (2018) • Episode 10: "Alexandria Leaving" (2018) • The Witch Who Came in from the Cold (co-created by Gladstone & Lindsay Smith) • The Witch Who Came in from the Cold Season One (with Lindsay Smith, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ian Tregillis, and Michael Swanwick) (forthcoming, 2017) • Episode 1: "A Long, Cold Winter" (with Lindsay Smith, 2016) • Episode 3: "Double Blind" (2016) • Episode 9: "Head Case" (2016) • Episode 13: "Company Time" (with Lindsay Smith, 2016) • The Witch Who Came in from the Cold Season Two (with Smith, Clarke, Tregillis, and Fran Wilde) • Episode 2: "Complicating Factors" (2017) • Episode 8: "What's Gone, What's Left Behind" (2017) • Episode 11: "Absent Friends" (2017)
Interactive fiction
Interactive fiction
• Choice of the Deathless (2013) • Deathless: The City's Thirst (2015) Both games, published by Choice of Games, are set in the Craft Sequence universe.
Short fiction
Short fiction
• "The Mask on the Island", On The Premises Magazine #3 (2007) • "On Starlit Seas", The Book of Exodi, ed. Michael K. Eidson (2009) • "The Four Modernizations", Necrotic Tissue #9 (2010) • "Drona's Death", xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths, ed. Kate Bernheimer (2013) • "The Angelus Guns", Tor.com, ed. Marco Palmieri (2014) • "A Kiss With Teeth", Tor.com, ed. Marco Palmieri, (2014) • "Man in the Middle", Shared Nightmares, eds. Steven Diamond an Nathan Shumate (2014) • "Late Nights at the Cape and Cane", Uncanny Magazine (2014) • "The Iron Man", The Grimm Future, ed. Erin Underwood (2016) • "Big Thrull and the Askin’ Man", Uncanny Magazine (2016) • "Giants in the Sky", The Starlit Wood, eds. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (2016) • "The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom", Tor.com, ed. Marco Palmieri (2017) • "Crispin's Model", Tor.com, ed. Marco Palmieri (2017) • "To a Cloven Pie", Robots vs. Fairies, eds. Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (2018) • "Fitting In: A Wild Cards Story", Tor.com, ed. George R. R. Martin (2018) • "The Secret Life of Rubberband", Texas Hold'em, ed. George R. R. Martin (2018) • "The Man Who Captured Luke Skywalker", From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, (Del Rey, August 2023)
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Awards
• Year — Title — Award — Category — Result — Ref • 2013 — — — John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer — — — Finalist • 2014 — Three Parts Dead — Mythopoeic Award — Fantasy – Adult — Finalist • 2017 — Hugo Award — Series — Finalist • 2019 — This is How You Lose the Time War — BSFA Award — Shorter Fiction • Nebula Award — Novella • Kitschies — Novella — Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize — Ray Bradbury Prize — Finalist • Shirley Jackson Award — Novella — Finalist • 2020 — Aurora Award — Short Fiction • Hugo Award — Novella • Locus Award — Novella • Ignyte Award — Novella • Theodore Sturgeon Award — — • 2026 — Hugo Award — Series — Finalist
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- 1.Gladstone, Max. About.
- 2.Ay-leen the Peacemaker. Max Gladstone Brings the Gods to Court in Three Parts Dead. Tor.com. 30 October 2012.
- 3.Landon, Justin. Interview with Max Gladstone, author of Three Parts Dead. Staffer's Book Review. 1 October 2012.
- 4.World Science Fiction Society. 2013 Hugo Awards. 22 December 2012.
- 5.Grilo, Ana. Max Gladstone's Delightfully Misleading 'Three Parts Dead'. Kirkus Reviews. 12 October 2012.
- 6.Tilahun, Naamen. Three Parts Dead mixes magic with courtroom drama. io9. 14 November 2012.
- 7.Cunningham, Joel. Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence Moves to Tor.com Publishing; Will Mix Novels and Novellas, Continue to Be Awesome. Barnes & Noble. 10 August 2016.
- 8.Introducing Bookburners. Serial Box. 9 September 2015.
- 9.Bookburners. Serial Box.
- 10.Announcing Bookburners Season 2!. Serial Box. 11 January 2016.
- 11.Serial Launch: The Witch Who Came In From The Cold. Serial Box. 26 January 2016.
- 12.Gladstone, Max. The Witch Who Came In From The Cold – Out Now!. max gladstone. 27 January 2016.
- 13.Cunningham, Joel. Saga Press to Publish Print Editions of Three Serial Box Titles. The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog. 2 March 2016.
- 14.Exclusive Cover Reveal: The Witch Who Came In from the Cold: Season One from Saga Press. The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog. 2017-02-02.
- 15.Moher, Aidan. Max Gladstone announces upcoming Pathfinder Tales novel. A Dribble of Ink. 15 April 2015.
- 16.Martin, George R. R. Wild Cards Times Three. Not A Blog. 16 March 2016.
- 17.Tor Books. Empress of Forever. 18 June 2019.
- 18.2019 Nebula Award Finalists Announced. 20 February 2020.
- 19.2019 BSFA Shortlist Announced. The Nebula Awards®. 2020-02-20.
- 20.Liptak, Andrew. Announcing the 2019 Nebula Awards Winners!. Tor.com. 2020-05-30.
- 21.year based on official award year
- 22.2014 Mythopoeic Award Winners. locusmag.com.
- 23.2017 Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners. locusmag.com.
- 24.2019 BSFA Award winners. 2020-05-19.
- 25.Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. 2019 Nebula Award Finalists Announced. The Nebula Awards®. 2020-02-20.
- 26.Liptak, Andrew. Announcing the 2019 Nebula Awards Winners!. Tor.com. 2020-05-30.
- 27.Locus. 2019 Kitschies Shortlists. 9 March 2020.
- 28.2019 Book Prize Winners & Finalists. Los Angeles Times.
- 29.Nominees Announced for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards.
- 30.The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). 2020 Aurora Awards.
- 31.Locus Online. 2026 Locus Awards Winners. May 30, 2026.
- 32.Locus. Ignyte Awards Winners. 18 October 2020.
- 33.Suzanne Palmer Wins the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Award. 21 October 2020.
- 34.2026 Hugo, Lodestar & Astounding Awards Winners. Locus. 31 Aug 2026.
- 35.Here's the cover and an excerpt from Max Gladstone's next Craft novel. The Verge. 2017-02-08.
- 36.Zutter, Natalie. March's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books.
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