Max Gladstone
Max Gladstone | |
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| Born | April 28, 1984 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Genre | Urban fantasy Fantasy |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Notable works | Three Parts Dead Bookburners |
| Website | |
| maxgladstone | |
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, and Last First Snow in 2015, all part of his Craft Sequence.
Serial Box Publishing
On 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.[7] The first season ran from September to December 2016 for 16 episodes: Gladstone wrote the pilot as well as episodes 7, 11, and 16.[8] On January 2016, Serial Box renewed Bookburners for a second season, set to premiere on Summer 2016.[9]
Gladstone's newest serial, The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, co-created with Lindsay Smith, launched on January 2016 from Serial Box.[10] 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.[11] The first season is set to run for 13 episodes. Simon and Schuster's SAGA Press imprint is set to release print collections of the first season of Bookburners and The Witch Who Came in From the Cold on Fall 2016 and Summer 2017, respectively.[12]
Other work
On April 2015, it was announced that Gladstone had been tapped to write a Pathfinder Tales tie-in novel for Paizo.[13]
On March 2016, George R. R. Martin announced on his blog that Gladstone would joining the team of writers working on the Wild Cards anthology series he edits.[14]
Bibliography
The Craft Sequence
- Three Parts Dead (2012), ISBN 978-0765333100
- Two Serpents Rise (2013), ISBN 978-0765333124
- Full Fathom Five (2014), ISBN 978-0-7653-3574-6
- Last First Snow (2015), ISBN 978-0-7653-7940-5
- Four Roads Cross (forthcoming, 2016)
Serial fiction
- Bookburners (created by Gladstone)
- Bookburners Season One (with Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, and Brian Francis Slattery)
- Episode 1: "Badge, Book, and Candle" (2015)
- Episode 7: "Now and Then" (2015)
- Episode 11: "Codex Umbra" (2015)
- Episode 16: "Siege" (2015)
- Bookburners Season One (with Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, and Brian Francis Slattery)
- 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)
- Episode 1: "A Long, Cold Winter" (with Lindsay Smith, 2016)
- Episode 3: "Double Blind" (2016)
- Episode 9: "Head Case" (forthcoming, 2016)
- Episode 13: "Company Time" (with Lindsay Smith, forthcoming, 2016)
- The Witch Who Came in From the Cold Season One (with Lindsay Smith, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Ian Tregillis, and Michael Swanwick)
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
- "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)
- "Late Nights at the Cape and Cane", Uncanny Magazine, (2014)
References
- ^ Gladstone, Max. "About". Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ^ Ay-leen the Peacemaker (30 October 2012). "Max Gladstone Brings the Gods to Court in Three Parts Dead". Tor.com. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ^ Landon, Justin (1 October 2012). "Interview with Max Gladstone, author of Three Parts Dead". Staffer's Book Review. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ^ "2013 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Retrieved 2013-04-03.
- ^ "Max Gladstone's Delightfully Misleading 'Three Parts Dead' | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ Tilahun, Naamen. "Three Parts Dead mixes magic with courtroom drama". io9. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ "Introducing Bookburners - Serial Box". Serial Box. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ "Bookburners". www.serialbox.com. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ "Announcing Bookburners Season 2! - Serial Box". Serial Box. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ "Serial Launch: The Witch Who Came In From The Cold - Serial Box". Serial Box. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ "The Witch Who Came In From The Cold — Out Now!". max gladstone. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ "Saga Press to Publish Print Editions of Three Serial Box Titles". The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ "Max Gladstone announces upcoming Pathfinder Tales novel". A Dribble of Ink. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ grrm. "Wild Cards Times Three". Not A Blog. Retrieved 2016-03-12.