Max Gladstone
@maxgladstone.bsky.social
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Max Gladstone: Dead Hand Rule - Macmillan Publishers
Join award-winning author Max Gladstone for a discussion of his latest novel, Dead Hand Rule, book three of the Craft Wars series.
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We're coming up on the release for DEAD HAND RULE! Come see me and @matociquala.bsky.social on launch day, Oct 28, at @portersqbooks.bsky.social - or on Nov 12 at Pandemonium! us.macmillan.com/tours/max-gl...
For your consideration. I think FT's an important writer and if he's willing to stay here, he should be able to.
For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are.
I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.
Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory
Short version first:
I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over
www.gofundme.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
For your consideration. I think FT's an important writer and if he's willing to stay here, he should be able to.
very Oscar Isaac face: "somehow, vine has returned"
Vine reboot called diVine has been launched 📱
• Funded by Jack Dorsey
• Includes over 100K videos from Vine's archive
• Users can upload 6-second videos
• AI-generated content is not allowed
• Funded by Jack Dorsey
• Includes over 100K videos from Vine's archive
• Users can upload 6-second videos
• AI-generated content is not allowed
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
very Oscar Isaac face: "somehow, vine has returned"
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Me riffing on a Daniel Abraham bit about how genres are where fears pool
“Science fiction is a waterworks for channeling fear.” So says @maxgladstone.bsky.social at Pandemonium Books launch for Dead Hand Rule
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Me riffing on a Daniel Abraham bit about how genres are where fears pool
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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Tremendous time at Pandemonium tonight! Thanks to all who showed up. It gets me to my heart, to talk with folks who have been reading this series since we were all starting out, who’ve trusted me on this journey. I am very grateful and very lucky.
“Science fiction is a waterworks for channeling fear.” So says @maxgladstone.bsky.social at Pandemonium Books launch for Dead Hand Rule
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Tremendous time at Pandemonium tonight! Thanks to all who showed up. It gets me to my heart, to talk with folks who have been reading this series since we were all starting out, who’ve trusted me on this journey. I am very grateful and very lucky.
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The greatest trick rich and horrible people ever pulled is convincing us they were interesting.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The greatest trick rich and horrible people ever pulled is convincing us they were interesting.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
Tremendous time at Pandemonium tonight! Thanks to all who showed up. It gets me to my heart, to talk with folks who have been reading this series since we were all starting out, who’ve trusted me on this journey. I am very grateful and very lucky.
“Science fiction is a waterworks for channeling fear.” So says @maxgladstone.bsky.social at Pandemonium Books launch for Dead Hand Rule
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Tremendous time at Pandemonium tonight! Thanks to all who showed up. It gets me to my heart, to talk with folks who have been reading this series since we were all starting out, who’ve trusted me on this journey. I am very grateful and very lucky.
Me riffing on a Daniel Abraham bit about how genres are where fears pool
“Science fiction is a waterworks for channeling fear.” So says @maxgladstone.bsky.social at Pandemonium Books launch for Dead Hand Rule
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Me riffing on a Daniel Abraham bit about how genres are where fears pool
If you're in or around Cambridge (US) tonight at 6:30pm, come join me to chat about DEAD HAND RULE! I'll be reading, talking, answering questions, and signing books.
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Dead Hand Rule: Book Three of the Craft Wars Series by Gladstone, Max (Paperback)
From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This Is How You Lose the Time War....Great powers clash and epic action unfolds in book three of the Craft Wars series. The time until the end...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you're in or around Cambridge (US) tonight at 6:30pm, come join me to chat about DEAD HAND RULE! I'll be reading, talking, answering questions, and signing books.
pandemoniumbooks.com/products/aut...
pandemoniumbooks.com/products/aut...
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
I love this.
My pet theory ever since Timothy Dalton was cast as Rassilon has been that Bond is in fact Rassilon, who crashed in the UK in the 40s with amnesia after the Time War, sort of a Corwin of Amber situation
My pet theory ever since Timothy Dalton was cast as Rassilon has been that Bond is in fact Rassilon, who crashed in the UK in the 40s with amnesia after the Time War, sort of a Corwin of Amber situation
Alternate idea: Bond is literally the incarnation of Cold War excess and paranoia, a kind of god a la @maxgladstone.bsky.social 's LAST EXIT. Movie is from someone else's POV as an immortal, flickery Bond turns ordinary situations into international conspiracy by his very presence
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I love this.
My pet theory ever since Timothy Dalton was cast as Rassilon has been that Bond is in fact Rassilon, who crashed in the UK in the 40s with amnesia after the Time War, sort of a Corwin of Amber situation
My pet theory ever since Timothy Dalton was cast as Rassilon has been that Bond is in fact Rassilon, who crashed in the UK in the 40s with amnesia after the Time War, sort of a Corwin of Amber situation
"You can't take three from two,
two is less than three,
so you look at the four in the tens place"
two is less than three,
so you look at the four in the tens place"
One of the things that gets lost in translation is how rhythmic & fun to read the prose of the original Journey to the West is.
Best way I can describe it is "Imagine if Dragonball was Written instead of Drawn"
Esp. when for most of its existence, this is how story would've actually been read:
Best way I can describe it is "Imagine if Dragonball was Written instead of Drawn"
Esp. when for most of its existence, this is how story would've actually been read:
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"You can't take three from two,
two is less than three,
so you look at the four in the tens place"
two is less than three,
so you look at the four in the tens place"
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Paging @maxgladstone.bsky.social of "Deconstruction of Falling Star Wars"--I mean, "Galactic History, or Galactic Folk Tale?"
www.maxgladstone.com/2015/10/gala...
www.maxgladstone.com/2015/10/gala...
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Paging @maxgladstone.bsky.social of "Deconstruction of Falling Star Wars"--I mean, "Galactic History, or Galactic Folk Tale?"
www.maxgladstone.com/2015/10/gala...
www.maxgladstone.com/2015/10/gala...
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This has been my whole week so far.
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This has been my whole week so far.
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This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
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Ngl that [dramatic pause]
Would be [puts on sunglasses]
goated [won't be fooled again starts blaring/ puts on dark goggles on top of sunglasses]
Would be [puts on sunglasses]
goated [won't be fooled again starts blaring/ puts on dark goggles on top of sunglasses]
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Ngl that [dramatic pause]
Would be [puts on sunglasses]
goated [won't be fooled again starts blaring/ puts on dark goggles on top of sunglasses]
Would be [puts on sunglasses]
goated [won't be fooled again starts blaring/ puts on dark goggles on top of sunglasses]
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The first paragraph here especially also feels like it's a lot of the point of Dead Hand Rule by @maxgladstone.bsky.social. The Skazzerai, and some of the entities dedicated to opposing them, have all internalized that idea, and the idea that one might not play bigger-fish games is incomprehensible.
to quote @slacktivistfred.bsky.social, vampires fear the cross *because* it is powerless.
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The first paragraph here especially also feels like it's a lot of the point of Dead Hand Rule by @maxgladstone.bsky.social. The Skazzerai, and some of the entities dedicated to opposing them, have all internalized that idea, and the idea that one might not play bigger-fish games is incomprehensible.
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A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane
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They broke the republican supermajority in the Mississippi state senate
respect to the organizers and power to the people
respect to the organizers and power to the people
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
They broke the republican supermajority in the Mississippi state senate
respect to the organizers and power to the people
respect to the organizers and power to the people
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NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow. A time looping fantasy of ferocious lady knights & the nervy chain-smoking scholars who love them: folklore amid fascism. Fierce, clever, & impassioned. Our drink is Valiance, beneath the yew tree.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow. A time looping fantasy of ferocious lady knights & the nervy chain-smoking scholars who love them: folklore amid fascism. Fierce, clever, & impassioned. Our drink is Valiance, beneath the yew tree.
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Every race. It’s basically been every race.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Every race. It’s basically been every race.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit