Magic’s appearance, in ways that no one can deny (such as the winking Eye of London), requires new strategies, and keeping people safe no longer means hiding knowledge. Divergent philosophies drive a wedge between them and the church, and their once sponsors become their hunters. Sal and the other members of Team Three: Father Menchú, Grace, Liam, and Asanti, find their world changed in ways that are both unexpected and inevitable. Over the course of the series, magic becomes impossible to hide. She can’t take the knowledge back, so she joins up, becoming a member of the Vatican’s Team Three, tasked with archiving dangerous magical books and hiding magic from the world. They don’t make it in time: Perry is already possessed, and the encounter leaves him in a coma, and Sal with the knowledge of the magic that lies just outside her normal vision. Read more: Summer Glau Dives Back into Sci-Fi With Serial Box’s Alternis But the people who want Perry aren’t criminals: they’re covert operatives of the Vatican, tasked with capturing the book-and the demon bound within it-before anything bad happens. The story begins with Sal Brooks, a NYPD officer whose brother, Perry, in trouble for having a book he shouldn’t have taken, comes to her for help.

When asked how he could keep all his projects straight, he quipped: “You’re assuming that I do keep it all straight! I’ve been leaning heavily on my calendar app and my to-do list, and getting a lot less sleep than usual.”ĭen of Geek readers who follow our “Best Online Serial Fiction” roundup will be familiar with Bookburners, the flagship series of Serial Box, a subscription service launched in 2015 that promises “HBO-style storytelling” in prose format. And, in July, they can join two rival agents exchanging letters as they time travel in This Is How You Lose the Time War, a novella Gladstone co-wrote with Amal El-Mohtar.ĭespite that schedule, Gladstone took a few minutes to chat with us about his projects.

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone