Seanan McGuire presents 'Inkpot Gods'
Schedule
Tue, 16 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
5041 Wilson Ave S, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98118 | Seattle, WA
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Can the gods of today defeat the evils of their maker, or will her dark legacy prove to be their undoing?Third Place Books welcomes Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning author Seanan McGuire to our Seward Park store for a conversation about her new book, Inkpot Gods. The fourth book in McGuire's Alchemical Journeys series, Inkpot Gods explores legacy, belief, redemption...and mortal danger.
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
About Inkpot Gods. . .
The New York Times bestselling author takes us back to the world of the Alchemical Journeys in this action-packed follow-up to Middlegame, Seasonal Fears, and Tidal Creatures.
The gods live and die at our whim.
More than a century has passed since Asphodel Baker refined the process allowing her to imbue alchemically created life with power in a way no one else had ever been able to achieve. More than a century since she built the Impossible City on the ruins of Olympus, forging it from nothing more than imagination and spite, and penned it in plain view, enabling it to be read and cherished and believed by children the world over.
And now, so long after her exit from the world, the descendants of her dark alchemy—who exist in a reality that inches ever closer to the hellscape of her imagination—step into a place of birth, of discovery, of horror, to make amends for the sins of the past.
Can the gods of today defeat the evils of their maker, or will the legacy of the most powerful alchemist the world has ever known prove to be their undoing?
Praise for the Alchemical Journeys series. . .
“McGuire has an uncanny knack for taking the worst things that lurk in the shadows and weaving them into an absolute delight.”
—Becky Chambers, author of A Psalm for the Wild-Built, on Middlegame
“McGuire continues to produce entertaining adventures against a fascinating backdrop of a world very close to our own.”
—Booklist on Seasonal Fears
“McGuire sets a high bar for alchemy-based stories in this new standalone, twisting themes of time and space as seen through the eyes of children. . . . This singular work keeps readers thinking long after the final page.”
—Library Journal, starred review of Middlegame
Seanan McGuire is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award–winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. In 2022 she managed the same feat, again!
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