Last Exit
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3.9 • 10 Ratings
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.
In Last Exit, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Max Gladstone weaves American myths—the muscle car, the open road, the white-hatted cowboy—into a deeply emotional tale.
When Zelda and her friends first met, in college, they believed they had all the answers. They had figured out a big secret about how the world worked and they thought that meant they could change things.
They failed. One of their own fell, to darkness and rot.
Ten years later, they've drifted apart, building lives for themselves, families, fortunes. All but Zelda. She's still wandering the backroads of the nation. She's still fighting monsters. She knows: the past isn't over. It's not even past.
The road's still there. The rot's still waiting. They can't hide from it any more. Because, at long last, their friend is coming home. And hell is coming with her.
“A novel carved by hand out of salt and rock and bone. This is what the Great American Novel wishes it could be: honest, furious, in love.”—Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Amal El-Mohtar
“[A] deliriously strange novel of alternate universes and dysfunctional explorers. This gloriously metaphysical adventure will stick with you long after you return to the so-called real world.”—Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders
Also Available by Max Gladstone:
The Craft Sequence
1. Three Parts Dead
2. Two Serpents Rise
3. Full Fathom Five
4. Last First Snow
5. Four Roads Cross
6. Ruin of Angels
The Craft Wars
1. Dead Country
2. Wicked Problems
Last Exit
Empress of Forever
This is How You Lose the Time War (with Amal El-Mohtar)
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
College students discover they can manipulate the inherent uncertainties of reality to step into alternate universes in the brilliant latest from Hugo and Nebula Award winner Gladstone (This Is How You Lose the Time War, written with Amal El-Mohtar). Heroine Zelda and her friends use this "knack" to search for a better world, one "where history turned out different." Instead, they find the rot, a hungry evil that devours every world it touches—and, in a terrible miscalculation, Zelda's lover, Sal, is lost to the rot. Ten years later, Zelda's on the road, alone, and working to stamp out the rot wherever it creeps into her world. When Sal's 17-year-old cousin, June, demands answers about what really happened to Sal, Zelda takes June into an "alt"—and discovers that Sal, or whatever she's become, is coming home. Now Zelda must bring her old friends back together to travel to the Crossroads, where worlds meet, in hopes of sealing off the rot forever. Gladstone weaves magic and mathematics in vivid and poetic prose. There's a wonderful diversity of characters and relationships, with deep insight on how the characters' differing traumas and marginalizations influence what they want out of the alternate worlds. The result blends fantasy, horror, and science fiction to produce a stunning, insightful novel that wants a better world just as much as its protagonists do.
Customer Reviews
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Is The Point
Diversity of POV coupled with expansive imagination is what makes speculative fiction great. Much like traveling the multiverse, exposure to new realities can only broaden your own. And maybe, along with that, you can find your compassion (the true definition of woke).
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is the “rot”
Enough of making stories that are all woke.