Summary: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bookburners-Max-Gladstone-ebook/dp/B01N0SKM0F/"></a>In episode 304 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome two-time Campbell Award nominee <a href="http://www.maxgladstone.com/" target="_blank">Max Gladstone</a>, author of the Craft Sequence: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Three-Parts-Dead-Craft-Sequence-ebook/dp/B0085UEQDO/" target="_blank">Three Parts Dead</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Serpents-Rise-Craft-Sequence-Book-ebook/dp/B00CQY7VMS/" target="_blank">Two Serpents Rise</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HXZZXSO/" target="_blank">Full Fathom Five</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R697C86/" target="_blank">Last First Snow</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015W3Q0QW/" target="_blank">Four Roads Cross</a> – plus <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bookburners-Max-Gladstone-ebook/dp/B01N0SKM0F/" target="_blank">Bookburners</a>, co written by Mur Lafferty, Brian Francis Slattery, and Margaret Dunlap.<br> About Max:<br> <a href="http://www.maxgladstone.com/" target="_blank">Max Gladstone</a> 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 July 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.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * Max: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Middlemarch-Wordsworth-Classics-George-Eliot/dp/1853262374" target="_blank">Middlemarch by George Elliot</a><br> * John: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Battlefront-Twilight-Company-Star-Wars/dp/1101884762/" target="_blank">Battlefront: Twilight Company</a> Star Wars<br> * Patrick: <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" target="_blank">Steam</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/maxgladstone" target="_blank">Max Gladstone on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/johnanealio" target="_blank">John Anealio on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/atfmb" target="_blank">Patrick Hester on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://www.patreon.com/functionalnerds?ty=h" target="_blank">The Functional Nerds Patreon Page</a><br> * <a href="http://superstarswriting.com/" target="_blank">Superstars of Writing </a>– Patrick Teaching Scrivener and Podcasting<br> * <a href="https://www.pikespeakwriters.com/event-type/open-critique/" target="_blank">Open Critique night</a> – Patrick is the guest critiquer<br> * <a href="https://www.pikespeakwriters.com/ppwc/activities/thursday-programming/" target="_blank">The Pikes Peak Writers Conference</a> – Patrick is teaching a half-day Scrivener workshop<br> <br> © 2017 Patrick Hester and John Anealio<br> This podcast contains original music by John Anealio.<br>
