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, and his urban fantasy serial Bookburners.

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 April 2013, Gladstone was nominated 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. Publication of the Craft Sequence has moved to Tor.com, with the sixth novel, Six Feet Over, scheduled for 2017, followed by 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 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 and 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 Tales tie-in novel for Paizo.^[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, will be published in 2018 by Tor Books, followed by Gladstone's first space opera in 2019.^[7]

Bibliography

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. Ruin of Angels (forthcoming, 2017)^[17]

In internal chronological order^[18]

1. Last First Snow
2. Two Serpents Rise
3. Three Parts Dead
4. Four Roads Cross
5. Full Fathom Five

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)
• 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" (forthcoming, 2017)

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

• "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, ISBN 978-1466884557 (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", ed. Marco Palmieri, Tor.com (2017)

References

External links

• Official website
• Max Gladstone at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database