Max Gladstone

New story alert! “The Assumption of Maria” is a week-after-next techno noir about a detective lacing up their gumshoes to track down the missing accountant responsible for a megachurch’s soul tokenization and financialization scheme.

Happy Monday, everybody! This week, have you considered voting early (if you can) and voting in person (if you can)? It's fun! Try it if you can!

I posted a newsletter! A bit about Halloween and a bit about election season, & sharing a piece of advice that has helped me: buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...

Aw, damn. What a truly kind man… RIP, Walter. ❤️🖖🏼

Here's an ambitious countermove. Buried in that 7,103-word terms of service is this gem: you can opt out of the binding arbitration within 30 days of "agreeing" to it by sending an email to termsofservice@latimes.com with the subject line "MANDATORY ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER OPT-OUT".

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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

was sat in a quiet pub enjoying hearing a man & woman talking about comics they love -- Wicked + the Divine! Saga! Love & Rockets! -- & then heard them bring up Sandman & the guy said "I'm so glad the sexual assault allegations against him were dropped" which is wildly incorrect

Anyway going to re-up this very upsetting article about the details & try not to start any bar fights www.vulture.com/article/neil...

I posted a newsletter! A bit about Halloween and a bit about election season, & sharing a piece of advice that has helped me: buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...

Without facts, truth and trust, we don't have democracy - "we're in the last two minutes of it" - @mariaressa.bsky.social You can't fight for climate, for kids, for equality or rule of law if we cannot agree on the facts. "Information integrity is the mother of all battles."

Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h

also ALSO we're open for novella submissions right now more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Congratulations to the graduate of Viable Paradise 2026!!!!! 24 writers joined the VP community today and, man, they are amazing! I'm sure we'll continue to see amazing things from you.

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway, courtesy of the author: 8 copies of Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence Book 1) by @maxgladstone.bsky.social, which I *have* and *have read* and *did love*, and there are many many many sequels by now. It gives us a world where lawyers and accountants do magic.

“The Girl Who Borrowed Tomorrows” by Pravy Jha from @tasavvurnama.bsky.social, “The Assumption of Maria” by @maxgladstone.bsky.social from @lightspeedmagazine.com, and more short fiction recs from @mariahaskins.co

@lightspeedmagazine.com and @nightmare-magazine.com are more than 90% of the way there with their Kickstarter! Three days left to push the total the rest of the way! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

WASHINGTON—Trump’s federal agents raid Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home over decades-old “immigration paperwork” her father filled out when she was a kid. No charges. Breaking DOJ norms. Over the cliff, folks.

For those pushing Dems to start making a stink about Elon's fundraising @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social is now doing that.

Gourd-fucking-DAMMIT.

The last half of this quote wasn't circulating nearly as much yesterday, but it's actually the clincher. God bless this brilliant, gifted, absolutely deranged man.

Next stop: Viable Paradise!

Gonna go find some peaches and some dynamite

Remembering my dear friend John Prine, on what would have been his 80th birthday this Saturday. I miss him deeply, as all of us who love him do. What a gift he will always be.

Vote early and in person, folks. If you're in a "vote by mail" state and can deliver your mail-in vote directly rather than relying on USPS this year, do it. Otherwise get it into the mail at the earliest possible date. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...