Winner

Dead Country
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel · 2024 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel | 2024 | Shortlist |
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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