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American Gods meets The Amber Chronicles: A hitchhiker wizard gathers her estranged friends to defend the world from her long lost lover-and the monsters that return with her.
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.
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.
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"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
"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