Aha! I'm 'a snatch up these books! Wait -- I already have them, and read them. Okay, your turn. What a lovely twist on magic and gods -- plus, excellent prose, strong characters, spot-on pacing. Yeah, Hugo-worthy.

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

hey boss. yeah i'm gonna be late again for my job in Myst world, where we live. i forgot which combination of the sixteen valve handwheels in my apartment opens the front door again

King in Red in the sky over GenCon last night

Ahhhhh I love this book!

Calum Barnes@balumcarnes.bsky.social · 2d ago

41. Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer (tr. Ursula Le Guin). The follow up to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities but trading in the architectural fancy for an opulent cornucopia of invisible empires rising and falling over and over again.

Olaniyi Omotayo, Nigerian (1995- ), Empowered Unity 4, 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in, private collection

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d ago

the new mountain goats album is out on Friday. presave it please! or even preorder it! the vinyl package is a super cool O-card design by @seenstudio.bsky.social 30tgrs.ffm.to/days

i know i am semiconstantly yelling about books everyone needs to buy that said THESE ARE BOOKS EVERYONE NEEDS TO BUY

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

yoooo go get these

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

If you have somehow not yet read the Craft Sequence/Craft Wars books yet, do not sleep on this. Necromantic lawyers! Contract law-based magic! You can't help but gasp at the sheer invention.

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

This year’s Best Series nominees remind me of this bit from Jhereg:

Sam Justice@illumas.bsky.social · 2d ago

That's some impressive company you're up there with Max.

A great deal on the series that made me think, "yes, I would have definitely stayed in the legal profession if it had included actual necromancy."

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

Aw man, touched by all the good things folks have been saying about these books while I’ve been in the air. Thank you so much!

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

book series so good that they convinced me to go to law school (btw i finally caught up on the craft wars and i am dyiiiiinnnggg for the last book now)

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

Oh shit i love these books! One of the best visions and executions of “lawyers, but fantasy”

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

You guys, the Craft Sequence and subsequent Craft Wars are some of my favorite SFF of the 00s, buy these books! Also that cover of Three Parts Dead is still so good. Tara looking suitably badass

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

you should really read these books, especially if: - you like speculative fiction that is doing something really, really different - you like your magic to have rules but also need a kind of strict poesis - you think skeletons are cool

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

Three Parts Dead

From the author of the viral bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War..."Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good." —Patrick RothfussMax Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build ...

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Now let’s try this again…

Possibly could add Adam Becker? His would be called "These Fucking People" and would have a nice ring to the end of the list 😋

The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary.

Situation was apparently more extensive than we thought. Our podcast also went rogue and is spreading our stories in audio form. We continue to investigate how it managed to escape our sandbox, but suspect that this modern RSS technology is exhibiting signs of awareness. The industry is concerned.

Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 4d ago

Clarkesworld has recently discovered that their August issue successfully breached containment and gained access to the Internet, where it is presently hacking reader's minds. "Oh no, what will we do? Who knew that stories could be so powerful?" said Neil Clarke, when approached for comment.

well, stuck in indy one more day. if only i had a suitcase of games with which to entertain myself. oh wait!

dear miss blusky, what is the etiquette for when someone seated across from you in the airport is watching short form video on speaker on 2x speed

waiting for my flight back to gencon and some of the nerds at the gate are talking about babylon 5

Jordan Peele Sweating Meme

Alt: Jordan Peele Sweating Meme

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UPDATE: uh holy shit we’ve raised over $12k since I posted this. that’s enough to give each of the 9 candidates here over $1K each, a significant fundraising boost that they will feel on the ground in these must-win swing districts

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3d ago

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

to have lost a flight crew once may be an accident. to have lost a flight crew twice begins to look like carelessness

the Green Bay Packers should be the model and that is precisely why they changed the bylaws so they will never be the model

burn it all down@russbengtson.bsky.social · 3d ago

the big problem with sports franchise valuations skyrocketing and continuing to do so is that the only people who can afford to be team owners anymore are the worst fuckin people on earth. unfortunately this also applies to every other company in every other industry.

Also the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d ago

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

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Got it. You *just* want to know if we lost them--moving forward, I can keep that information on message, succinct, and limited to whether or not we lost them. Just say the word, and I'll let you know if we lost them as straightforwardly as possible.

headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · 3d ago

cortana all i want to know is did we lose them