Dead Hand Rule

I'm a long-time admirer of Max Gladstone's The Craft sequence, though I confess his melding of magical fantasy with corporate law at times leaves me a bit bewildered. But nobody has as of yet come up with a magic system that is quite so novel. This third book in his new Craft Wars series continues w......more

And now it all falls apart, in the best and most delicious ways. I thought this was going to be a peace talk book when this started out, but the way that the last third of the book ends up exploding and exposing the big threat that's been lying underneath is truly exquisite. (A small note - we are n......more

After finishing this book the first thing I had to do was catch my breath. Once I had it, I needed to let out a scream of frustrated rage that I don’t have book 4. I will avoid spoilers as best I can, beyond what can be found on the back of the book. Things are coming full circle; this book takes plac......more

Max Gladstone's writing is a head above almost any other in terms of sheer creativity. I hate to say that, because it makes everyone else look rather dull or usual or understated or just plain. Boring, even. :) The Craft Wars jump up to a lot of politicking in this one. Dead gods, agents of the Craft......more

Max Gladstone’s Craft war series takes place after the war that destroyed most of the gods. Craftsmen manipulate reality with artificial gods and there is a stock market of souls . In this penultimate book of the series, the movers and shakers of the world gather at Alt Coulomb for a convention to w......more