Background
Max Walker Gladstone was born on May 28, 1984, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He grew up in Sewanee, Tennessee.
2019
4 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
Max Gladstone at Pandemonium Books & Games in 2019.
2019
4 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
Max Gladstone at Pandemonium Books & Games in 2019.
2019
4 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
Max Gladstone at Pandemonium Books & Games in 2019.
290 Quintard Road, Sewanee, TN 37375, United States
St. Andrew's-Sewanee School where Max Gladstone studied.
735 University Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383, United States
Sewanee: The University of the South where Max Gladstone studied.
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Yale University where Max Gladstone received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Max Gladstone before the Hugo Award.
Max Gladstone before the Hugo Award with Sheila E. Gilbert, Caroline Stevermer, John Berlyne, and Vanessa Len.
Max Gladstone
Max Gladstone
Max Gladstone
Max Gladstone with Sarah Gailey at Word tor.com publishing.
Max Gladstone with Amal El-Mohtar.
Max Gladstone with Amal El-Mohtar.
(Three nights after Thea’s brother left for the revolution...)
Three nights after Thea’s brother left for the revolution in the Crystal City, she packed a bag to follow him. She expected a fight when she confessed her plan. Instead, her young mother closed her eyes, and opened them, and asked, “Can you bring him back?”
https://www.amazon.com/Angelus-Guns-Tor-com-Original-ebook/dp/B00LKO5J88/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working t...)
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters - and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
https://www.amazon.com/This-How-You-Lose-Time-ebook/dp/B07MNG496J/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(From Max Gladstone comes a smart, swashbuckling, wildly i...)
From Max Gladstone comes a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure; the saga of a rag-tag team of brilliant misfits, dangerous renegades, and enhanced outlaws in a war-torn future. A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she tries to outrun people who are trying to steal her success. In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, Viv sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later, Vivian Liao is catapulted through space and time to a far future where she confronts a destiny stranger and more deadly than she could ever imagine.
https://www.amazon.com/Empress-Forever-Max-Gladstone-ebook/dp/B07GVCXWR5/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(In Bookburners: The Complete Season 1, magic is real and ...)
In Bookburners: The Complete Season 1, magic is real and some books have teeth. Join Detective Sal Brooks, newest recruit to a black-ops magic hunting team, as she travels the world to keep the supernatural in check. Just remember: watch your back and don’t touch anything.
https://www.amazon.com/Bookburners-Complete-Season-Max-Gladstone-ebook/dp/B07HZ2GMQC/?tag=2022091-20
(In Bookburners: The Complete Season 2, the tide of magic ...)
In Bookburners: The Complete Season 2, the tide of magic is rising and the Bookburners must sink or swim. Big secrets - about the Society, the world, and the murky pasts of our heroes will come to light, that is if the team can stay alive to learn them.
https://www.amazon.com/Bookburners-Complete-Season-Max-Gladstone-ebook/dp/B07JMM94XX/?tag=2022091-20
(In Bookburners: The Complete Season 3, the world as we kn...)
In Bookburners: The Complete Season 3, the world as we know it is under siege. The Bookburners are stretched thin trying to control an influx of magic - and they don’t have much support from the Vatican. Can they overcome their history and band together to protect humanity from an increasing magical threat? Or will it destroy them, like it has destroyed everything else in its path?
https://www.amazon.com/Bookburners-Complete-Season-Max-Gladstone-ebook/dp/B07HZ3DR3B/?tag=2022091-20
(In Bookburners: The Complete Season 4, everything falls i...)
In Bookburners: The Complete Season 4, everything falls into two categories: Before London and After London. Before London, things were strange, sure, but After London “strange” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Magic is everywhere - and the Bookburners can only be in one place at a time.
https://www.amazon.com/Bookburners-Complete-Season-Max-Gladstone-ebook/dp/B07HZ2SGWJ/?tag=2022091-20
(The Craft Sequence is a book series consisting of Three P...)
The Craft Sequence is a book series consisting of Three Parts Dead (2012), Two Serpents Rise (2013), Full Fathom Five (2014), Last First Snow (2015), Four Roads Cross (2016), The Ruin of Angels (2017). Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074CC7G8B?ref_=dbs_r_series&storeType=ebooks
Max Walker Gladstone was born on May 28, 1984, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He grew up in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Max Gladstone graduated from St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee. At school, he made the first steps on the path of writing. He studied at the University of the South but left in 2002. Then he went to Yale University where he studied East Asia and acquired Mandarin Chinese. Gladstone received there a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2006.
After graduating from Yale University, Max Gladstone moved to China. There he worked as a translator at a car showroom in Beijing, as a clerk at the headquarters of a large Chinese network of fitness clubs, but his main activity was participation in the Yale-China Association - from 2006 to 2008, he taught English as a representative in the secondary school of Huangshan City.
Upon returning to the US, Gladstone worked for a year at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center, where he studied China's Internet policy, Internet censorship mechanisms, and the fight against it. In 2009, he began working in the Aberdeen Group as a business analyst. In parallel, he finished writing his first novel and was engaged in the search for a literary agent, which took quite a long time. When the agent was found, it took only two months to sign the contract with the publisher Tor Books.
After the debut book was released in October 2012, Gladstone retired from his main job and became a professional writer. The first book 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. The sixth novel of the sequence, Ruin of Angels, was published by Tor.com in 2017.
Gladstone also wrote Bookburners, a weekly urban fantasy serial. Since 2016 he is also part of the team of writers working on George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards anthology series. The Highway Kind, a fantasy road trip novel, was published in 2018 by Tor Books, followed by Gladstone's first space opera in 2019.
(From Max Gladstone comes a smart, swashbuckling, wildly i...)
2019(Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working t...)
2019(Three nights after Thea’s brother left for the revolution...)
2014(In Bookburners: The Complete Season 4, everything falls i...)
(In Bookburners: The Complete Season 2, the tide of magic ...)
(A stranger claiming knowledge of realms beyond the known ...)
2017(In Bookburners: The Complete Season 1, magic is real and ...)
(In Bookburners: The Complete Season 3, the world as we kn...)
(Vlad has grown distant from his wife. His son has trouble...)
2014(The Craft Sequence is a book series consisting of Three P...)
Max calls Robin McKinley and Roger Zelazny the writers who influenced his work the most.
The idea of writing a fantasy novel on legal material was born to the author during conversations with his mother-in-law, a practicing lawyer when the bankruptcy procedure reminded him of the necromancy ritual.
Quotations:
"When I was a kid, I wrote everything longhand, then typed, which is a beautiful and restful way to work, but takes a while."
"All things considered, I think it’s best to need very little when you write. The more “special” your setup, the harder it will be to achieve and maintain. The less you need, the more you’ll be able to write."
"The real power of science fiction and fantasy, for me, lies in their use as tools to interpret the world around us and investigate aspects of our lives that are too complex, too implicit, too subtle to tease out with the limited toolset of realistic fiction."
"Games are at least in part a cognition hack. Our brains like activity, change, and problem-solving. They like the world to shift around them. They don’t like to remain idle. A gamer exists in a kind of tuned reality, designed to provide meaningful simulation, solvable problems, and a range of dramatic possibilities from failure to success."
"Writing fiction is hard. Publishing fiction (which I assume you want to do based on this question) is harder. It’s a long and sometimes lonely road to walk, and you will lose so much time and health if you start walking that road in a direction you don’t love."
" I love my name, and I have absolutely thanked my parents for giving me such an awesome one."
Max Gladstone is married.