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All right, so now let's get to our show. Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 374 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Max Gladstone.

He's the author of the craft sequence of fantasy novels from Tor,

and he also co-wrote book burners and the witch who came in from the cold for serial box.

His short fiction appears in the Wildcards anthologies and on tour.com, and his novel

This is How You Lose The Time War, which he wrote with the Malle El Motar is out now and we'll be speaking

with him today about his new space opera novel Empress of Forever and now here's her interview with Max Gladstone.

All right so we're here with Max Gladstone.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's a real pleasure to be here.

Okay, so your new novel is called Empress of Forever.

So how did this book come about?

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