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Sharp, original, passionate." -NPRMax Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world.The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning's creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the fire god's church. Tara Abernathy, the god's in-house Craftswoman, must d...

American Gods meets The Amber Chronicles in Max Gladstone's Last Exit: A hitchhiker wizard gathers her estranged friends to defend the world from her long lost lover-and the monsters that return with her.Imagine that the American highway system is a vast magical network binding city to city. By soaking up magic from intentionally directionless travel, initiates can slip into alternate realities. Stray too far from our America, though, and thin...

Die Götterkriege sind vorüber - und das ist, was uns bleibt. Ein Gott ist gestorben, und nun muss ihn Tara, frischgebackene Mitarbeiterin der Kunstwirkerfirma Kelethres, Albrecht und Ao, wieder zum Leben erwecken, bevor seine Stadt untergeht. Ihr Klient ist kein geringerer als Kos persönlich, der kürzlich verstorbene Feuergott der Stadt Alt Coulumb. Ohne ihn würden die Dampfgeneratoren der Metropole ausfallen, die Züge nicht mehr fahren und di...

A wildly imaginative adventure featuring a rag-tag team of brilliant misfits

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NOW A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!"A classic space opera...a universe we've never seen before." -Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling authorFrom Hugo Award finalist 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 radica...

This historic collaboration with legendary creator Shirow Masamune based on the classic manga features four all-new stories in a beautiful full-color 160-page hardcover, by some of the world's most innovative comics writers and artists, plus a cover by the acclaimed Dustin Nguyen (Descender) and pinup illustration by Becky Cloonan.Ages 16+A covert mission in Shanghai reunites Kusanagi with a wartime rival amid shifting loyalties. The infiltrat...

Max Gladstone returns with The Ruin of Angels, the sixth novel in the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence, which The Washington Post calls "the best kind of urban fantasy" and NPR calls "sharp, original, and passionate"The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place. Dead deities litter the surrounding desert, streets shift when people aren't looking, a...

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The god Kos has died, and it's up to Tara, a first-year associate in an international necromantic firm, to bring him back to life before his city falls apart. Her only help is a chain-smoking priest of Kos who's having an understandable crisis of faith.

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The god Kos has died, and it's up to Tara, a first-year associate in an international necromantic firm, to bring him back to life before his city falls apart. Her only help is a chain-smoking priest of Kos who's having an understandable crisis of faith.

A tale of intrigue, a murdered god, and the business of necromancy: an urban fantasy set in an alternate reality.

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Brilliant, elegant, epic, astonishing, smart, gritty.... another wondrous visit to the fantastic world of the Craft Sequence." -Ken Liu, author of The Grace of KingsMax Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world.Forty years after the God Wars, Dresediel Lex bears the scars of liberation-especially in the Skittersill, a poor district still bound by the fallen gods' decaying edicts. ...

[A] taut and unique blend of legal drama, fantasy, and noir." -Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMax Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world.Shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc-casual gambler and professional risk manager-to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb ...

This is the best kind of urban fantasy, filled with diverse characters and thought-provoking philosophies." -The Washington PostMax Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world.On the island of Kavekana, Priestess Kai builds gods to order-sort of. Kai's creations are perfect vehicles for Craftsmen and Craftswomen operating in the Old World. For beyond the ocean, true deities still th...