Empress of Forever: Max Gladstone and Arkady Martine @ Bookstore Cafe

By Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe

Aug 8  |  Community

Gladstone and Arkady Martine will discuss this fantastical space opera and the issue of ethics and rulership in sci-fi – Soho Community Events

A magnificent work of vivid imagination and universe-spanning action, Empress of Forever is Max Gladstone’s feminist Guardians of the Galaxy crossed with Star Wars and spiced with the sensibility and spirit of Iain M. Banks and William Gibson.

Gladstone and Arkady Martine will discuss this fantastical space opera and the issue of ethics and rulership in sci-fi.

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Max Gladstone has been thrown from a horse in Mongolia and nominated twice for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award. Tor Books published FOUR ROADS CROSS, the fifth novel in Max’s Craft Sequence (preceded by THREE PARTS DEAD, TWO SERPENTS RISE, FULL FATHOM FIVE, and LAST FIRST SNOW) in 2016. Max’s game CHOICE OF THE DEATHLESS was nominated for a XYZZY Award, and FULL FATHOM FIVE was nominated for the Lambda Award. His short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Uncanny Magazine.  His most recent project is the globetrotting urban fantasy serial BOOKBURNERS, available in ebook and audio from Serial Box, and in print from Saga Press. Twitter.

Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. Under both names she writes about border politics, rhetoric, propaganda, and the edges of the world. Arkady grew up in New York City and, after some time in Turkey, Canada, and Sweden, lives in Baltimore with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw. Twitter.

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