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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AMA: Rethink Priorities' Worldview Investigation Team, published by Bob Fischer on July 31, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Rethink Priorities' Worldview Investigation Team (WIT) will run an Ask Me Anything (AMA). We'll reply on the 7th and 8th of August. Please put your questions in the comments below! What's WIT? WIT is Hayley Clatterbuck, Bob Fischer, Arvo Munoz Moran, David Moss, and Derek Shiller. Our team exists to improve resource allocation within and beyond the effective altruism movement, focusing on tractable, high-impact questions that bear on strategic priorities. We try to take action-relevant philosophical, methodological, and strategic problems and turn them into manageable, modelable problems. Our projects have included: The Moral Weight Project. If we want to do as much good as possible, we have to compare all the ways of doing good - including ways that involve helping members of different species. This sequence collects Rethink Priorities' work on cause prioritization across different kinds of animals, human and nonhuman. (You can check out the book version here.) The CURVE Sequence. What are the alternatives to expected value maximization (EVM) for cause prioritization? And what are the practical implications of a commitment to expected value maximization? This series of posts - and an associated tool, the Cross-Cause Cost-Effectivesness Model - explores these questions. The CRAFT Sequence. This sequence introduces two tools: a Portfolio Builder, where the key uncertainties concern cost curves and decision theories, and a Moral Parliament Tool, which allows for the modeling of both normative and metanormative uncertainty. The Sequence's primary goal is to take some first steps toward more principled and transparent ways of constructing giving portfolios. In the coming months, we'll be working on a model to assess the probability of digital consciousness. What should you ask us? Anything! Possible topics include: How we understand our place in the EA ecosystem. Why we're so into modeling. Our future plans and what we'd do with additional resources. What it's like doing "academic" work outside of academia. Biggest personal updates from the work we've done. Acknowledgments This post was written by the Worldview Investigation Team at Rethink Priorities. If you like our work, please consider subscribing to our newsletter. You can explore our completed public work here. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Webinar: How to use Rethink Priorities' new effective giving tools, published by Rethink Priorities on July 24, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Introducing the tools How can we optimize our charitable giving while accounting for complex factors about effectiveness and philosophy? Rethink Priorities' Worldview Investigations Team developed two free tools to help address this question: 1. The portfolio builder 2. The moral parliament simulation Both tools are described in the new Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools (CRAFT) Sequence, which is a part of the Team's ongoing efforts to improve resource allocations. Learn more Join Rethink Priorities' Senior Research Manager Bob Fischer and Researcher Arvo Muñoz Morán for a virtual workshop on how to use these new tools. The one-hour event will cover: • An overview of why the CRAFT Sequence tools were developed. • A virtual walkthrough of the Portfolio Builder Tool and the Moral Parliament Tool. • A practical session on how you can apply these tools to your own giving strategies. • A question-and-answer session to address your questions and provide further insights. Come explore how the Portfolio Builder and Moral Parliament tools can help you build effective giving portfolios and make informed philanthropic decisions! Details The webinar will be held on Monday, August 5 at noon PT / 3 pm ET / 8 pm BT / 9 pm CET. Please register here to receive the Zoom link to join the event. If you cannot attend but would like a recording of the discussion, reach out to henri[at]rethinkpriorities.org. Note: For a sneak peek, check out a recorded 2-minute intro ( moral parliament, portfolio builder) or 5-minute intro ( moral parliament, portfolio builder). Rethink Priorities (RP) is a think-and-do tank that addresses global priorities by researching solutions and strategies, mobilizing resources, and empowering our team and others. Henri Thunberg wrote this post. Thank you to Rachel Norman for her input. We invite you to explore more RP research via our database and stay updated on new work by subscribing to our newsletter. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Taking Uncertainty Seriously (or, Why Tools Matter), published by Bob Fischer on July 19, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Executive Summary We should take uncertainty seriously. Rethink Priorities' Moral Parliament Tool, for instance, highlights that whether a worldview favors a particular project depends on relatively small differences in empirical assumptions and the way we characterize the commitments of that worldview. We have good reason to be uncertain: The relevant empirical and philosophical issues are difficult. We're largely guessing when it comes to most of the key empirical claims associated with Global Catastrophic Risks and Animal Welfare. As a community, EA has some objectionable epistemic features - e.g., it can be an echo chamber - that should probably make us less confident of the claims that are popular within it. The extent of our uncertainty is a reason to build models more like the Portfolio Builder and Moral Parliament Tools and less like traditional BOTECs. This is because: Our models allow you to change parameters systematically to see how those changes affect allocations, permitting sensitivity analyses. BOTECs don't deliver optimizations. BOTECs don't systematically incorporate alternative decision theories or moral views. Building a general tool requires you to formulate general assumptions about the functional relationships between different parameters. If you don't build general tools, then it's easier to make ad hoc assumptions (or ad hoc adjustments to your assumptions). Introduction Most philanthropic actors, whether individuals or large charitable organizations, support a variety of cause areas and charities. How should they prioritize between altruistic opportunities in light of their beliefs and decision-theoretic commitments? The CRAFT Sequence explores the challenge of constructing giving portfolios. Over the course of this sequence - and, in particular, through Rethink Priorities' Portfolio Builder and Moral Parliament Tools - we've investigated the factors that influence our views about optimal giving. For instance, we may want to adjust our allocations based on the diminishing returns of particular projects, to hedge against risk, to accommodate moral uncertainty, or based on our preferred procedure for moving from our commitments to an overall portfolio. In this final post, we briefly recap the CRAFT Sequence, discuss the importance of uncertainty, and argue why we should be quite uncertain about any particular combination of empirical, normative, and metanormative judgments. We think that there is a good case for developing and using frameworks and tools like the ones CRAFT offers to help us navigate our uncertainty. Recapping CRAFT We can be uncertain about a wide range of empirical questions, ranging from the probability that an intervention has a positive effect of some magnitude to the rate at which returns diminish. We can be uncertain about a wide range of normative questions, ranging from the amount of credit that an actor can take to the value we ought to assign to various possible futures. We can be uncertain about a wide range of metanormative questions, ranging from the correct decision theory to the correct means of resolving disagreements among our normative commitments. Over the course of this sequence - and, in particular, through Rethink Priorities' Portfolio Builder and Moral Parliament Tools - we've tried to do two things. First, we've tried to motivate some of these uncertainties: We've explored alternatives to EV maximization's use as a decision procedure. Even if EV maximization is the correct criterion of rationality, it's questionable as a decision procedure that ordinary, fallible people can use to make decisions given all their uncertainties and limitations. We've explored the problems and prom...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: An Introduction to the CRAFT Sequence, published by Bob Fischer on July 8, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post introduces Rethink Priorities' Charitable Resource Allocation Frameworks and Tools Sequence (the CRAFT Sequence). After a brief statement of the problems that CRAFT aims to address, we provide an overview of what it includes. Building Giving Portfolios Some people think that you should go all-in on particular giving opportunities. Some people think that you should diversify your giving portfolio. What assumptions and circumstances favor going all-in? What assumptions and circumstances favor diversification? And either way, what should your resources support? Rethink Priorities' recent Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model (CCM) can help us rank interventions within certain cause areas. It can also help us rank options based on a handful of key decision theories. However, the CCM isn't designed to produce giving portfolios per se. The CCM can help us compare interventions with respect to their expected value or risk-adjusted value. But it was never intended to answer the question: "How should I split a certain amount of money given what matters to me?" We need other tools for that purpose. The CRAFT Sequence introduces beta versions of two such tools: a risk-based portfolio builder, where the key uncertainties concern cost curves and decision theories, and a moral-parliament-based portfolio builder, which allows for the modeling of both normative and metanormative uncertainty. The Sequence's primary goal is to take some first steps toward more principled and transparent ways of constructing giving portfolios. Our tools make debates about worldviews more tractable by illustrating how assumptions about cost curves, attitudes toward risk, and credences in moral theories can influence allocation decisions. These tools are limited in ways you would expect. Their specific recommendations are only as good as their highly uncertain inputs; they assume that you're acting in isolation even though others' allocations can be relevant to what's optimal for you; they sometimes sacrifice granularity for computational efficiency; and so on. Still, the process of operationalizing and implementing proposals is instructive: it makes the choice points clear, it automates relevant calculations, it makes optimization possible, and it paves the way for future research. These tools therefore offer significant improvements over commonly used BOTECs. What's to Come In the coming sequence, we will introduce and comment on two tools for constructing portfolios: one focused on cost-effectiveness under various attitudes toward risk and a second that uses a moral parliament to allocate resources under metanormative uncertainty. The second post introduces the Portfolio Builder Tool that allows you to build a giving portfolio based on (a) the amount of money you want to give, (b) your attitudes toward risk, and (c) some assumptions about the features of the interventions you're considering. The third and fourth posts explore two risk attitudes that this tool incorporates. The third considers challenges to caring about making a difference; the fourth considers the common practice of "rounding down" low probabilities, which is one way of implementing an aversion to poorly justified probabilities. Of course, people don't simply have different attitudes toward risk; they also give some credence to a range of different moral views. So, the fifth post introduces our Moral Parliament Tool, which allows users to consider the impact of moral uncertainty in addition to various risk attitudes. This tool implements a moral parliament and several voting procedures for adjudicating disagreements among the delegates. And, like the first tool, the associated documentation explores the philosophic...

My guest this week is author Max Gladstone! Max is best known to fantasy readers for his wonderful Craft Sequence. He's written extensive serialized fiction with the Book Burners and the Witch Who Came in from the Cold, and has a huge backlist of short fiction published on Tor.com and in various magazines and collections. He's also the co-author of This is How You Lose the Time War, a multi-award-winning novella.Max and I chat about the state of publishing a decade ago and how his unique approach to a fantasy series managed to sneak into a chaotic and changing industry. We take a long dive into rereading old sword and sorcery authors, the problems we find within them as educated adults, and the qualities we still love. Finally, we talk about the creative implications of showing off early drafts of a work-in-progress. Enjoy my conversation with Max Gladstone!Find Max on his website, Twitter, or pick up his books.Find Brian McClellan at his website, on Twitter and Instagram, or find his books on Amazon, direct from his bookstore, or wherever books are sold!Don't forget to support the show on Patreon, or pick up some swag on Redbubble. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Magic is real. And it's dangerous. It's locked in books and relics imbued with power. But sometimes, whether by accident or by design, magic escapes and wreaks havoc upon the world. That's when Team Three is deployed—known by their enemies as: The Bookburners. Realm presents Bookburners, a supernatural fantasy podcast created and executive produced by Hugo-, Nebula-, and Locus Award winning author Max Gladstone (Empress of Forever, The Craft Sequence series, This is How You Lose the Time War). Premieres February 14th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fantasy doesn't always have to be about orcs and wizards. In this episode, we talk about modern fantasy books with Fonda Lee. Fonda is the author of the incredible Greenbone Saga which recently made NPRs greatest 50 sci-fi and fantasy books of the decade. She has won a world fantasy award, three aurora awards and could legitimately fly-kick anyone who started a flame war with her on Twitter because she's a black-belt martial artist. Fonda's recommendations for great modern fantasy books include: The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone The Divine Cities Trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett The Books of Babel by Josiah Bancroft The Kingston Cycle by CL Polk The last book in Fonda's Greenbone Saga, Jade Legacy is out Nov 30th. Get it wherever all good books are sold. You can also find Fonda on Twitter, Instagram or on her website here.

I talk about the exciting 1st book in the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone. Thanks to David Hilowitz for the intro/outro music. If you have any questions or comments send them to LibromancyPod@gmail.com.  Please Like and Subscribe wherever you get your podcast from. https://libromancy.podbean.com/p/calendar-1613777730/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13539191-three-parts-dead

Original broadcast date September 1, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/09/binary-system-podcast-50-fifty-episodes-still-no-plan/ It's the 50th episode of Binary System Podcast! What do we have planned? Absolutely nothing! Seriously, are you surprised? After 50 episodes if you think we've got a game plan we'd like to talk to you about this section of prime real estate in the Everglades, lovely spot, we'll just need your credit card number... Seriously though, we tackled this episode with all the randomness we could put behind it, and jumped from Penny Dreadful to Stranger Things, Mr. Robot, the Foreigner Series, Game of Thrones, the Craft Sequence, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk, prom night, Civil War 2, time travel, the Thessaliad, Sins of the Wreckers, Transformers that break, and being surprisingly girly about it. Don't judge. Kathryn's review of Neil Gaiman's How to Talk to Girls at Parties is here. The Craft Sequence Books are by Max Gladstone and you should probably be reading them. The tumblr artist Kathryn mentioned is Linda Marie Anson. The Soundwave Evolution figure review is live, complete with video, you can check it out here. Jada's Sherlock panel recap is here, Drew's latest rebirth post is here, and the photos from Nerd Con 2016 are here! If you want to follow along with Fanart Fridays, check us out on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter (and possibly Instagram!)

What happens to the not-heroes when the story's over? Max Gladstone and Ted Rabinowitz peak through the window of those characters who must live without the benefit of plot armor. "Centaur's Lament," by Ted Rabinowitz, Read by Rish Outfield Ted Rabinowitz Ted Rabinowitz is an author and copywriter whose previous careers include electrician, script reader, and professional card player. His first novel, The Wrong Sword, was published in 2012, and his writing has appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, the Business International Money Report, the Valley Sun, Hollywood Scriptwriter, and elsewhere. Rish Outfield is a podcaster, writer, and audiobook narrator who loves Horror, the word "chalupa," Star Wars, Sean Connery, and hopes to be remembered for his lovely singing voice . . . despite his many monstrous crimes. "Late Nights at the Cape and Cane" by Max Gladstone, Read by Wilson Fowlie ​Max Gladstone has been thrown from a horse in Mongolia and nominated for the Hugo, John W Campbell, and Lambda Awards. A narrative designer, writer, and consultant, Max is the author of the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence (starting with THREE PARTS DEAD and most recently continuing with RUIN OF ANGELS). His short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Uncanny Magazine. He has written games, comics, and interactive television, and is the lead writer of the fantasy procedural series BOOKBURNERS. Max’s most recent projects are the intergalactic adventure EMPRESS OF FOREVER, and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the time travel epistolary spy-vs-spy novella THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR. Wilson Fowlie lives in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada and has been reading aloud since the age of 4. His life has changed recently: he lost his wife to cancer, and he changed jobs, from programming to recording voiceovers for instructional videos, which he loves doing, but not as much as he loved Heather.

Hugo-, Nebula-, and Locus Award winning author Max Gladstone’s works include Empress of Forever, the Craft Sequence of fantasy novels and games, and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the internationally bestselling This is How You Lose the Time War. His interactive projects include the XYZZY-nominated Choice of the Deathless and Deathless: The City’s Thirst, which take place in the world of the Craft Sequence. Gladstone created the Serial Box series Bookburners, and the interactive television series Wizard School DropoutGladstone studied Chinese literature at Yale, and lived and taught for two years in rural Anhui province. He is a martial artist, fencer, and fiddler. Before writing full-time, he also worked as a researcher for the Berkman Center for Internet and Policy Law, a Swiss Embassy tour guide, a go-between for a Chinese auto magazine, a translator, a philosophy TA, a tech industry analyst, and an editor. He has wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat, sung at Carnegie Hall, and been thrown from a horse in Mongolia.Follow Max and buy his books!Website: https://www.maxgladstone.com/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Max-Gladstone/e/B009FG2FY4?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1611353164&sr=8-1Instagram: @max.gladstoneFollow us:Instagram: DrinkingwithAuthorsCall us or email us with questions or inquiries!Email: DrinkingWithAuthors@gmail.comPhone: (727) 300-6752New episodes weekly!

Hugo-, Nebula-, and Locus Award winning author Max Gladstone’s works include Empress of Forever, the Craft Sequence of fantasy novels and games, and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the internationally bestselling This is How You Lose the Time War. His interactive projects include the XYZZY-nominated Choice of the Deathless and Deathless: The City’s Thirst, which take place in the world of the Craft Sequence. Gladstone created the Serial Box series Bookburners, and the interactive television series Wizard School DropoutGladstone studied Chinese literature at Yale, and lived and taught for two years in rural Anhui province. He is a martial artist, fencer, and fiddler. Before writing full-time, he also worked as a researcher for the Berkman Center for Internet and Policy Law, a Swiss Embassy tour guide, a go-between for a Chinese auto magazine, a translator, a philosophy TA, a tech industry analyst, and an editor. He has wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat, sung at Carnegie Hall, and been thrown from a horse in Mongolia.Follow Max and buy his books!Website: https://www.maxgladstone.com/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Max-Gladstone/e/B009FG2FY4?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1611353164&sr=8-1Instagram: @max.gladstoneFollow us:Instagram: DrinkingwithAuthorsCall us or email us with questions or inquiries!Email: DrinkingWithAuthors@gmail.comPhone: (727) 300-6752New episodes weekly!

Last year Coode Street sat down with people from all over the world to talk about what they were reading, what they were up to, and how they were coping with strange times. We did it every day, which we probably never will again, and along the way found out it was fun and interesting to check in for a short chat. We're continuing that during 2021. Ten Minutes with Max Gladstone The second "Ten Minutes with..." chat for 2021 is with Max Gladstone, the acclaimed author of the Craft Sequence, the Empress of Forever and, with Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War. Max sat down with Jonathan last year and discussed what he had been reading (a lot!), what he'd recommend, and what he had coming up. As always, our thanks to Max for taking the time to chat with us.

Show Notes: 01:14 - Sherri's Games Played and her Spotlight - Have a Familiar Ring 11:47 - Lowell's Games Played and his Spotlight - Purplest Prose 22:21 - Second Segment - Austin talks about his game Beam Saber, coming to Kickstarter soon, and his session of running it for the Gauntlet. Giving Me Life 44:05 - Sherri's getting life from Bon Apetit, a YouTube show 45:43 -  Lowell is getting life from a re-read of The Craft Sequence novel series 47:02 - Austin enjoys the podcast - Well, There's Your Problem Find Take Have a Familiar Ring by Sword Queen Games here: https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/have-a-familiar-ring Find Purplest Prose by Pammu here: https://thedovetailor.itch.io/purplest-prose Beam Saber KS info is here: https://tinyurl.com/beamsaberkickstarter Bon Apetit episodes are here: https://www.youtube.com/user/BonAppetitDotCom The Craft Sequence novels are here: https://www.maxgladstone.com/series/the-craft-sequence/ Well, There's Your Problem can be found here: https://wtyppod.podbean.com/

Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! This week we talk about some new music, finally! Fit for an Autopsy, Leprous, Wrvth, Syncatto (and also Artificial Language), Moron Police, Unleash the Archers, and Shaped in Dreams. Then we do cool people time with Midsommar's extended director's cut, The Boys, Control, The Expanse, On Becoming A God In Central Florida, and the Craft Sequence. Enjoy!

It's summertime, and the reading is otherworldly in this special August edition of 'Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club.' This full hour special takes us through the portal into the world of speculative fiction. Whether the stories include fantasy, the supernatural, or futuristic visions of life as we know it, avid fans are making this genre of fiction more popular than ever. Speculative fiction both challenges and entertains the reader with mind bending tales of parallel universes and dimensions unknown. There couldn't be more perfect escapism for those lazy hazy days of summer. Callie is joined by three local authors whose imaginations make speculative fiction their stage for dramatic adventures. With science as a foundation, their books have themes and plots that incorporate artificial intelligence, robots, virtual reality and much more. These writers often find inspiration from the science and technology of our current lives. Guests: Max Gladstone: Author of "Empress of Forever" — a nearly 500-page space opera featuring a band of misfits and their wild adventures in a war-torn future. Gladstone is best known for his six book urban fantasy series, "The Craft Sequence." The series was a finalist for the Hugo Best Series award. The Hugo specifically honors top authors in science fiction and fantasy. This Somerville resident is also a fiddler and a fencer and is fluent in Mandarin. K. Chess: Author of "Famous Men Who Never Lived." K's debut novel features a twist on the iconic science fiction plot about parallel universes. Before writing this first book, K. Chess was recognized for her short stories which earned her both the Nelson Algren Award and the Pushcart Prize. The Providence-based author was also named a W. K. Rose Fellow and teaches at the Boston writing center, Grubstreet. Cadwell Turnbull: Author of "The Lesson." Cadwell's first novel imagines aliens from another planet openly living side by side with residents of the Virgin Islands. Turnbull ‘s short fiction has been recognized in several anthologies. "Loneliness is in Your Blood" was selected for the collection, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018. And his short story "Jump" was selected for the Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. He, too, makes his home in Somerville, Massachusetts.  ———————-—————————————————————————-———————- More UTR: https://www.wgbh.org/news/under-the-radar-with-callie-crossley Follow Callie on Twitter: @CallieCrossley Like UTR on Facebook: facebook.com/UndertheRadarWGBH UTR is produced by Franziska Monahan. Doug Shugarts and John Parker are our engineers. Under the Radar is a production of WGBH.

Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo Award-nominated Craft Sequence of novels, and he just released his latest novel, EMPRESS OF FOREVER, a smart sci-fi adventure about far future tech. Max studied Chan poetry and late Ming dynasty fiction at Yale; he lived and taught for two years in rural Anhui province, and has traveled... The post 99. EMPRESS OF FOREVER, a new Sci-Fi Adventure by HUGO Award Finalist MAX GLADSTONE appeared first on 15 Minutes With Chuck - podcast.

Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo Award-nominated Craft Sequence of novels, and he just released his latest novel, EMPRESS OF FOREVER, a smart sci-fi adventure about far future tech. Max studied Chan poetry and late Ming dynasty fiction at Yale; he lived and taught for two years in rural Anhui province, and has traveled... The post 99. EMPRESS OF FOREVER, a new Sci-Fi Adventure by HUGO Award Finalist MAX GLADSTONE appeared first on Your Online Coffee Break podcast.

Выпуск, который я собрала в свой др, - разговор двух фанатов фантастики о странных и необычных вещах, избегающих реалистичности. Пули-самоубийцы, шахты в теле мертвых богов, текст, склеенный операторами языка программирования, дельфин из Атлантиды и живые наркотики. Беглая карта странной дичи без известных хитов + обширные знания Артема (https://t.me/fantasy_sf) в непереведенных вещах, чтобы набить свою читалку до отказа. Как бонус - можно услышать вопли кота. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heresyhub/overview Канал Артема Киселика: https://t.me/fantasy_sf Переводы статей и интервью: https://medium.com/@loyosh78 Статья о свежих номинантах Хьюго: https://www.mirf.ru/book/hyugo-2019-nominanty Упомянутые книги: "Бару Корморан, предательница" Сет Дикинсон "Кровь электрическая" Кэндзи Сиратори Джин Вулф "Пыточных дел мастер" и проч Дэвид Вонг "В финале Джон умрет" Роберт Рэнкин "Танцы с саквояжем вуду" и автор в целом Роберт Ши/Роберт Уилсон "Иллюминатус!" Мик Фаррен "Джим Моррисон после смерти" Данилевски "Дом листьев" Баллард "Выставка жестокости" Олдисс "Босиком по голове" Райаниеми "Квантовый вор", "Саммерленд" эдвард кэри "Заклятие дома с химерами" "The Vorrh" Brian Catling https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071377-the-vorrh Дж. Паркер "Трилогия фехтовальщика" Марлон Джеймс "Черный леопард, рыжий волк" Сорокин и Пелевин как фантасты Флан О'Брайен "Третий полицейский" Peter Newman "The Vagrant" Max Gladstone цикл "The Craft Sequence", в частности "Three parts dead" Скальци "Божьи двигатели" K.J. Bishop "Etched City" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944555.The_Etched_City Патрик Тилли "Cloud Warrior" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/744484.Cloud_Warrior Марта Уэллс - цикл про бота-убийцу https://fantlab.ru/work996148 , "Хроники Роксуры"https://fantlab.ru/work310662 Харлан Эллисон Филип Фармер Скотт Хокинс "Библиотека на Обугленной горе" https://www.labirint.ru/books/620616/

We're back with the #content plants crave. Joining us this week is special guest Max Gladstone, SF & fantasy author extraordinaire. But he's not here to talk about his own work, the Craft Sequence, oh no. Max wanted to discuss the phenomenal, long, daunting, nuanced, and mysterious Gnomon, by estemed author in his own right Nick Harkaway.  The discussion this week is spoiler-free, and acts as an introduction to the book and the ideas in it. We had a long and wide-ranging conversation with Max about Nick Harkaway's literary background (his father is also a famous author), which other books of his we've read, and other books in the SF genre that are similar to Gnomon in some way. On the thematic side, we spoke about experimental & postmodern fiction, the surveillance state and it's effect on our lives, what calling something "social construct" actually means, what the leading cause of death in America is, how our phones act as magic items, and what it means to read a videogame.  In a few weeks, we'll have our "post-read" conversation, which will feature heavy spoilers as we discuss the book in-depth. Pick up the book (amzn.to/2MszFb4) and read it with us! Some works that we mentioned in the podcast (our website, spectology.com, has the links if they don't show up in your podcatcher): - Malka Older's Infomacracy - Samuel Delany's Dhalgren - David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress - Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson- The Play Report of a D&D campaign Adrian ran- The interview with Harkaway Adrian references- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson- Our previous episode with Tobias Buckell- The Power Broker by Robert Caro - David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest - Not mentioned, but Adrian meant to: The Broken Earth by NK Jemisin As always, we post these links and more at our twitter account, @spectologypod. We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

In which we care about Hugo Awards, Aussie SFF awards, harassment at conventions and tea-brewing spaceships all at the same time. WHAT DO WE CARE ABOUT THIS WEEK? Hugo shortlist! Aurealis winners Ditmars Survey on Harassment in Aussie SF conventions CULTURE CONSUMED: Tansy: The Teamaster & the Detective, by Aliette de Bodard, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events S2, Runaways (TV) Alisa: Annihilation; Planetfall, Emma Newman; 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson; Santa Clarita Diet S2; Rise Alex: Echoes of Understorey, Thoraiya Dyer; Till We Have Faces and The Cosmic Trilogy, CS Lewis; The Craft Sequence, Max Gladstone Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon - which now includes access to the ever so exclusive GS Slack - and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

Max Gladstone Today, I talk with Max Gladstone, author of The Craft Sequence, in which a magical post-Apocalyptic society turns out to be not a terribly bad place to live, thank you very much. He describes his novels differently depending on who he's talking to. For businesspeople, lawyers, and consultants, he says, "It's just like your job, only with wizards." Like many writers, he's held a number of interesting and out-of-the-way jobs, as you can see from his bio below. Bio Max Gladstone is a two-time finalist for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award, and a one-time finalist for the XYZZY Award. In July 2016 Tor Books published his most recent novel, FOUR ROADS CROSS. Other novels in the CRAFT SEQUENCE include, LAST FIRST SNOW, a tale of zoning politics, human sacrifice, and parenthood.  LAST FIRST SNOW is  the fourth Craft Sequence novel, preceded by THREE PARTS DEAD, TWO SERPENTS RISE, and FULL FATHOM FIVE. Max studied Chan poetry and late Ming dynasty fantasy at Yale; he lived and taught for two years in rural Anhui province, and has traveled throughout Asia and Europe. He speaks Chinese, can embarrass himself  reading Latin, and is a martial artist, fencer, and fiddler. He’s also worked as a researcher for the Berkman Center for Internet and Policy Law, a tour guide for the Swiss Embassy, a go-between for a suspicious Chinese auto magazine, a translator for visiting Chinese schoolteachers, a Chinese philosophy TA, a tech industry analyst, and an editor. He has wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat, sung at Carnegie Hall, and been thrown from a horse in Mongolia. We recorded this conversation at pretty much the exact moment the Trump/Russia dossier hit the Internet. Before the conversation began, I asked Max if he'd like to discuss politics or current events. We ended up not talking politics until after we'd ended the interview. Missed opportunities.   He's also written a volume in the Bookburners project, currently available for free here:  

Souls of Gods leveraged into debt, oh my!  In our last CONvergence episode, Max Gladstone joins Paul and Shaun to discuss the Craft Sequence, the work of Roger Zelazny, and much more We hope you enjoy the episode! Note:  If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes […]

Full Fathom Five (Tor, 2014) the third and most recent novel in Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence, features dying divinities and depositions, idols and investments, priestesses and poets, offerings to gods and options for shareholders. As he explains in the podcast, Gladstone traces his initial inspiration for his Craft Sequence to, among other things, his several years teaching English in rural China, where he saw children of subsistence farmers grow up to become engineers and international bankers. “The thought that that’s really the kind of range that exists in the modern world sort of blew my mind open,” he says. When he came back to the U.S., Gladstone experienced a kind of culture shock. “Coming back to billboards and advertising campaigns and bank account statements and all of that was this huge shock so I was forced to fall back on interpretive tropes from fantasy and science fiction … to grok it all.” Another influence on his writing was the financial collapse of 2008 where the image of governments and banks rushing to salvage failing investment firms inspired him to write about necromancers trying to resuscitate dying gods. Also in the podcast, Gladstone discusses his affinity for female protagonists, the role numbers play in the titles of his books, the risks of hidden bias in world-building fiction, and his new text based game Choice of Deathless. For more about Gladstone, visit his blog here. Here are links to some of people, books and things mentioned in the podcast: * Author Ramez Naam. * Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie * Author Hannu Rajaniemi. * The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold * The quotation about escape from Ursula K. LeGuin comes from her book The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. The quote is cited in a post on The Tolkienist about escapism as an elevating quality of fantasy literature. * The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, directed by Sophie Fiennes and written and presented by Slavoj Zizek. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for many years as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform, and now serves as director of communications for a think tank in New York City. He blogs at Rob Wolf Books and I Saw it Today. Follow him on Twitter: @RobWolfBooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Full Fathom Five (Tor, 2014) the third and most recent novel in Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence, features dying divinities and depositions, idols and investments, priestesses and poets, offerings to gods and options for shareholders. As he explains in the podcast, Gladstone traces his initial inspiration for his Craft Sequence to, among other things, his several years teaching English in rural China, where he saw children of subsistence farmers grow up to become engineers and international bankers. “The thought that that’s really the kind of range that exists in the modern world sort of blew my mind open,” he says. When he came back to the U.S., Gladstone experienced a kind of culture shock. “Coming back to billboards and advertising campaigns and bank account statements and all of that was this huge shock so I was forced to fall back on interpretive tropes from fantasy and science fiction … to grok it all.” Another influence on his writing was the financial collapse of 2008 where the image of governments and banks rushing to salvage failing investment firms inspired him to write about necromancers trying to resuscitate dying gods. Also in the podcast, Gladstone discusses his affinity for female protagonists, the role numbers play in the titles of his books, the risks of hidden bias in world-building fiction, and his new text based game Choice of Deathless. For more about Gladstone, visit his blog here. Here are links to some of people, books and things mentioned in the podcast: * Author Ramez Naam. * Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie * Author Hannu Rajaniemi. * The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold * The quotation about escape from Ursula K. LeGuin comes from her book The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. The quote is cited in a post on The Tolkienist about escapism as an elevating quality of fantasy literature. * The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, directed by Sophie Fiennes and written and presented by Slavoj Zizek. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for many years as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform, and now serves as director of communications for a think tank in New York City. He blogs at Rob Wolf Books and I Saw it Today. Follow him on Twitter: @RobWolfBooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Full Fathom Five (Tor, 2014) the third and most recent novel in Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence, features dying divinities and depositions, idols and investments, priestesses and poets, offerings to gods and options for shareholders. As he explains in the podcast, Gladstone traces his initial inspiration for his Craft Sequence to, among other things, his several years teaching English in rural China, where he saw children of subsistence farmers grow up to become engineers and international bankers. “The thought that that’s really the kind of range that exists in the modern world sort of blew my mind open,” he says. When he came back to the U.S., Gladstone experienced a kind of culture shock. “Coming back to billboards and advertising campaigns and bank account statements and all of that was this huge shock so I was forced to fall back on interpretive tropes from fantasy and science fiction … to grok it all.” Another influence on his writing was the financial collapse of 2008 where the image of governments and banks rushing to salvage failing investment firms inspired him to write about necromancers trying to resuscitate dying gods. Also in the podcast, Gladstone discusses his affinity for female protagonists, the role numbers play in the titles of his books, the risks of hidden bias in world-building fiction, and his new text based game Choice of Deathless. For more about Gladstone, visit his blog here. Here are links to some of people, books and things mentioned in the podcast: * Author Ramez Naam. * Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie * Author Hannu Rajaniemi. * The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold * The quotation about escape from Ursula K. LeGuin comes from her book The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. The quote is cited in a post on The Tolkienist about escapism as an elevating quality of fantasy literature. * The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, directed by Sophie Fiennes and written and presented by Slavoj Zizek. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for many years as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform, and now serves as director of communications for a think tank in New York City. He blogs at Rob Wolf Books and I Saw it Today. Follow him on Twitter: @RobWolfBooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices