Max Gladstone

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Off to Readercon!

On July 23, I’ll be in conversation with @kevinhearne.bsky.social at Copper Dog Books about his new book, A CURSE OF KRAKENS. Come on by!

If you or any of your peeps are up Massachusetts way or thereabouts, @maxgladstone.bsky.social and I would love to see y’all at Copper Dog Books in two weeks. We’re discussing A CURSE OF KRAKENS but will sign any and all of our books. Let folks know, eh?

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Small time change for anyone who’d like to come see @maxgladstone.bsky.social and me in Massachusetts! There’s an Irish pub two blocks up the street called The Indo if you wanna come raise a glass and try the fish and chips with us at 5. Hope you (or your friends) can make it!

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Seen on Amazon today, apparently the Time War can be Lost on your window feeder. @amalelmohtar.com @maxgladstone.bsky.social Though given I'm in the middle of England it would be very noteworthy to have either of these birds show up.

Committed a bit of newsletter about art, suffering, learning to walk and related topics maxgladstone.substack.com/p/bitterness...

Bitterness, and Controlled Fallsmaxgladstone.substack.com Some thoughts from my morning run.

a modest proposal

Everyone needs an editor

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WONKA: *quickly slamming a door labeled LICORICE WHIPS* That's not part of the tour. That's for something else

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'In Kai's experience, when a service touted their probabilistically verified demonic algorithms, they usually meant "we run a simple regression and hope for the best."' @maxgladstone.bsky.social books are the best, a fantasy AI is still just 3 prediction models in a trenchcoat used irresponsibly

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If this isn’t just a completely terrifying way to show how cosmically immense your world ending antagonist is. Thanos could never!!! (Source: WICKED PROBLEMS by the incredible @maxgladstone.bsky.social )

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Listening to @maxgladstone.bsky.social’s EMPRESS OF FOREVER and “She sounded like Tom Waits had a baby with Tom Waits.” Max I almost crashed my car 🤣

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Monkeys! Fighting! Magic! Monks! Pigs! My french publishers gave me a copy of their amazing new book. 800 pages of adventure with hundreds of woodcut illustrations by disciples of Hokusai. Have a look inside here: www.editions2024.com/livres/pereg...

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Special delivery from Italy. Even there they know about “IL TWEET CHE HA CAMBIATO LA STORIA DELL'EDITORIA MONDIALE” (The tweet that changed the history of the publishing world) @amalelmohtar.com @maxgladstone.bsky.social

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What I've realized is that I'm much more likely to have these issues when the narrative isn't great. When the book actually rules, I don't have the focus problems. I'm FINALLY getting around to @maxgladstone.bsky.social's Craft Sequence, and I'm absolutely tearing through them.

I loved @djangowexler.bsky.social's HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD AND DIE TRYING! If you follow me here there's a good chance you will, too

Today! HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD AND DIE TRYING is in stores everywhere. Davi is stuck in a time loop and sick of trying to save the Kingdom from the Dark Lord. This time she's off to join the winning team! www.amazon.com/Become-Dark-...

Amazon.com: How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi Book 1) eBook : Wexler, Django: Kindle Storewww.amazon.com Amazon.com: How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi Book 1) eBook : Wexler, Django: Kindle Store

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Congratulations @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social 🎉🎊🍾 tahtivaeltajablogi.com/2024/05/15/u...

Uutiset – Tähtivaeltaja-palkinto 2024 jaettutahtivaeltajablogi.com Tähtivaeltaja-palkinto 2024 Helsingin Science Fiction Seuran Tähtivaeltaja-palkintoparhaasta vuonna 2023 suomeksi ilmestyneestäscience fiction -kirjasta annetaan Hertan julkaisemalleAMAL EL-MOHTARIN j...

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I left academia for many structural reasons (chief of which was the inability to have a research-primary job with any security in a place I could bear to live) - But the inciting incident was being offered a fiction publishing and an academic publishing contract at the same time. $$ vs nothing.

It also runs on the idea that academics do all of this for love: — love of the intellectual work — love of the academic “lifestyle” — love of the cultural capital it supposedly brings — love of teaching Because if you love it, they don’t have to pay you a living wage or respect your time.

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My review of @maxgladstone.bsky.social 's WICKED PROBLEMS is up at Fantasy Literature. 5 stars.

Wicked Problems: Save the world, or fix the world? | Fantasy Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction Book and Audiobook Reviewsfantasyliterature.com

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As someone who studies government, I want to say as clearly as possible that Trump 2.0 will not be the disorganized shitshow that the first term was. They have a credible plan to govern in an explicitly authoritarian model.

The wolf really is at the door, man time.com/6972021/dona...

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BREAKING NEW YORK SUPREME COURT FINDS RTS ARE ENDORSEMENT

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A modest birthday book haul. Deciding which to read first is proving... problematic. (Featuring @maxgladstone.bsky.social, @tkingfisher.bsky.social, and I could have sworn Robert Jackson Bennett was here on Bluesky too...?)

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So do you all remember the story I was going on and on about a month or two ago, the one with the art bullshit and the stunt-writing POVs? You can read it in Uncanny 58 (soon - May 7! - at uncannymagazine.com), along with a slew of truly awesome other stories, poems, & essays. Get ready.

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Just got myself Chaiko's Monkey King because holy whoa the drawings www.magnetic-press.com/monkey-king/

The Monkey King - Magnetic Presswww.magnetic-press.com

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Exactly — they’ll grasp at any alternate explanation, “indoctrination”, “social contagion”, anything to avoid realizing that the protesters are normal human beings having a normal human reaction, whereas the straw-graspers are demented, unlikeable freaks.

The funniest thing is when they’re like “first it was the George Floyd protest and now it’s this” to show that it’s a shadowy conspiracy of indoctrination instead of the incredibly basic normal human emotion we’ve had for a million years of “please do not murder people”

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Last year @maxgladstone.bsky.social kindly recorded a super long interview with me. Life got in the way but the first 3 clips are now FINALLY live for all you lovely people to check out. Better late than never, right?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUw...

Max Gladstone x The Hidden Schools | Craft Sequence Interview (PART 1)www.youtube.com Award-winning author of the Craft Sequence and New York Times bestselling co-author of This Is How You Lose the Time War MAX GLADSTONE interviewed by The Hid...

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All of this. Also, besides positioning themselves in court, it's also generally beneficial to the people that own and run publishers if everyone (writers, their own employees, people in general) thinks books don't sell and make money: it lowers expectations in advances, marketing, salaries, jobs

I offered a little rebuttal to the viral article claiming "No one buys books" (and dove into some of the math and stats of book sales) countercraft.substack.com/p/yes-people...

Yes, People Do Buy Bookscountercraft.substack.com Despite viral claims, Americans buy over a billion books a year

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In case you’re curious: John Lennon got it from the American Rifleman magazine, and they probably got it from Charles Schulz.

In “Peanuts,” the phrase “Happiness is a warm puppy” was first uttered on April 25, 1960, and went on to become one of the strip’s most quoted lines. Demonstrating the complexity of his characters, Charles Schulz had the fussbudget Lucy express the sentiment.

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When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom Log off

Any Rex Stout book where Archie lays someone out in a subordinate clause

Tried this at the bad place, didn't get a big response, so: Whare are some really good, well-written fight scenes (in books, not movies)? (Manchurian Candidate and Infinite Jest, for starters)

Lymond / Richard Lancelot / That Earth Dude in Fionavar Whose Name I’m Forgetting Yama / Rild Steel General / Set

Tried this at the bad place, didn't get a big response, so: Whare are some really good, well-written fight scenes (in books, not movies)? (Manchurian Candidate and Infinite Jest, for starters)

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either way the fact that an average medium-informed voter could conclude that it hardly matters who wins the next election because all major policy outcomes are fixed unless at least two specific justices die soon, and be at least half right, is a problem for democracy and the rule of law