The gods, man: you’re almost certain to die with them and you’re almost certain to die without them. At least, that’s usually the case if you’re a character in a fantasy novel in which deities have made their presence tangibly known. It’s certainly more or less the hard shape of things in Gareth Hanrahan’s fantasy […]
Max Gladstone made a name for himself (not to mention the Hugo ballot) with the Craft Sequence, a six-books-and-counting urban fantasy saga set in a world where the mundanities of zoning restrictions and contract law are infused with the magic of the gods: lawyers become craftswomen, and contract negotiations become literal deals with deities. Ever […]
If you pay attention to things like the Hugo and Nebula awards or lists of the best sci-fi and fantasy books of the year, you know the names Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. The celebrated authors of novels (Max’s six-books-and-counting Craft Sequence was recently nominated for the inaugural Best Series Hugo) and short stories (Amal’s […]
There are a great number of scary things in this world, and for a brief time, one of them was the idea we would never again get to play around in Max Gladstone’s methodically magical Craft Sequence universe, where necromancy and financial regulation go hand in hand. Thankfully, that’s a reality we won’t have to […]
For those who don’t know (and oh, how I both pity you and envy the journey that awaits you), the greatest fantasy adventure of the last three years is not a book, nor a movie, but a podcast—one begun on a lark, at that. Three years ago, podcasting stalwarts the McElroy Brothers (Travis, Justin, and […]
