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Dead Country

by Max Gladstone

Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel · 2024 · Shortlist
TordotcomsffISBN 9781250297990

Award History

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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel2024Shortlist

About This Book

The first Craft Wars novel: an overpowered witch returns home to bury her grandmother and finds the village she grew up in threatened by competing magical powers in a world where magic and capitalism are deeply intertwined.

About the Author

Max Gladstone is an American author of fantasy fiction known for the Craft Sequence, a series of novels set in a secondary world where magic and law overlap in a post-divine capitalist society. He was a Locus Award finalist for Dead Country (2024), the first Craft Wars novel. Born in 1984, Gladstone studied Chinese at Yale University and lived in China for a year. Read more →

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