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From the co-author of the bestselling This Is How You Lose the Time War.
Gaiman’s American Gods meets King’s The Dark Tower in this electric, captivating road trip across America and alternate realities to stop the apocalypse, from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.
Imagine that the American highway system is a vast magical network binding city to city. By soaking up magic from intentionally directionless travel, initiates can slip into alternate realities. Stray too far from our America, though, and things get weird. And dangerous. And terrifying.
When visionary mathematician Zelda Qiang was in college, she learned how to travel from one alternate reality to another. Her response was to take her friends on a road trip to strange new worlds. Six of them set out. Only five returned. Zelda’s lover, Sal, betrayed them: she walked into the jags―sharp cutting shadows like cracks in space―and didn’t come back.
Now Zelda still walks the road alone, a wandering magus keeping the jags from breaking through. But now Sal is coming back―with Dark Things in tow.
""Last Exit" is Max Gladstone’s best work yet, a novel carved by hand out of salt and rock and bone, a road broken clean through a dying country’s heart. This is what the Great American Novel wishes it could be: honest, furious, in love".―Amal El-Mohtar, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author
"How far would you go to save the world? Max Gladstone’s Last Exit answers resoundingly with an epic homage and powerful challenge to modern fantasy. What a stunning ride!"―Fran Wilde, two-time Nebula Award winning author of "Updraft" and the "Gemworld" series It's strange and wondrous and chilling and creepy and beautiful all at once. A book fit for our end-of-times times.―Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author
Praise for the author:
"Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good." —Patrick Rothfuss
""Empress of Forever" [demonstrates] the strength, power, and originality at his command. A deep, cellular-level enchantment filled at every turn with curiosity and delight". ―Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author
"A classic space opera that impossibly becomes a thrilling dungeon crawl fantasy through a universe we’ve never seen before. So smart it makes me jealous." —Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author
"A breakneck epic that explores a wildly, boldly imagined universe, filled with awe and wonder." ―John Chu, Hugo Award-winning author
"Readers will be hooked from page one. Vivan Liao is the best kind of badass. Zanj is an epic trainwreck of death and destruction. The rest of the crew is too awesome for words. The whole book is filled with the kind of snark that I love and an endless majesty of stars. It broke me to pieces and then stitched me back together with golden thread. Simply glorious." ―K.B. Wagers, author of "Behind the Throne"
"This is galaxy-saving space opera with cool original settings and a unique band of adventurers that change each other for the better. It was a wild ride and I really enjoyed it." ―Martha Wells, Nebula Award-winning author of "The Murderbot Diaries"
"Max Gladstone has recklessly folded space and time in order to project a galaxy sized adventure into this book-sized container. Take care when you open it." ―Howard Tayler, Hugo Award-winning creator of "Schlock Mercenary"
"Places Gladstone firmly in the lineage of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, and yet stands apart as something incredibly special." ―Fran Wilde, Andre Norton Award-winning author
"With his first book, Max Gladstone gives promise of being a true star of twenty-first-century fantasy." —John Crowley, World Fantasy Award-winning author
