"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

"[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

"Gives us the claustrophobia of impending collapse without losing the glimmer of hope. A wild ride into the darkness hiding under everyday life, like Gaiman’s Neverwhere with interstates and America instead of London and the Underground." ―Django Wexler, author of Ashes of the Sun

"Brilliant...a wonderful diversity of characters and relationships, with deep insight on how the characters’ differing traumas and marginalizations influence what they want. Blends fantasy, horror, and science fiction to produce a stunning, insightful novel that wants a better world just as much as its protagonists do." ―Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Thoughtful, action-packed, terrifying, and hopeful all at once, and has true, complicated friendships, found family, and queer love at its core. It’s an epic story with a complex, believable cast that asks the reader what it would truly take to find a world that’s better than our own." ―Booklist, starred review

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