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Dead Hand Rule

Dead Hand Rule

FantasyLaw
Pages
160
Published
2025
Language
English

Synopsis

In a world where magic and law are intertwined, a unique legal system governs reality itself. This story delves into the intricacies of this magical jurisprudence, where contracts can bind souls and legal battles have cosmic consequences. It explores the lives of those who navigate this complex system, revealing the power and peril of the 'Dead Hand Rule'.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

Thought-ProvokingComplexMysterious

Genres

Fantasy Law Urban Fantasy Magical Realism

About the author

M
Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone is an American fantasy and science fiction author, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Sewanee, Tennessee. He studied Chinese at Yale and lived in China from 2006 to 2008 as a Yale-China Fellow. His debut, Three Parts Dead (2012), began the Craft Sequence, urban fantasy in which lawyers, gods and souls-as-currency drive the plot; the Craft Wars series continues it. With Amal El-Mohtar he co-wrote the epistolary novella This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019), which won...