It can be startling to discover the universe existed prior to your own introduction into it (not to mention that it might go on existing after your exit). One of the biggest challenges we all face as SF/F readers is dealing with the immense number of books we haven’t read—particularly those that are a part of a (undoubtedly) […]
If I were to say, “I have a great urban fantasy series you should read,” you might smile and reply, “That’s great. I have read many wonderful urban fantasy series. Lay it on me; I’m sure I’ll love it.” When it comes to the novels in Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence, a series with both stupefying […]
This week’s new SF/F proves there’s plenty of new life in old tropes, from first contact stories, to deep space colonization, to alternate history.
This July, Tor Books released the fourth volumes of two very different urban fantasy series: D.B. Jackson’s Dead Man’s Reach, the latest installment of the Thieftaker Chronicles, about a supernatural detective of sorts in Revolution-era America; and Max Gladstone’s Last First Snow, part of the Craft Sequence, a mix of legal thriller and second world fantasy. […]
Yesterday, Max Gladstone was nominated for a Best Series Hugo Award for the Craft Sequence, an inventive blend of urban, epic, and weird fantasy set in a future world where magic is real, and governed by a systems of laws and lawyers, politics and politicians, and bureaucracy and red tape. If you never imagined you’d […]