Charlie Jane Anders writes science fiction and fantasy about friendship, technology and people trying to navigate worlds whose social rules are changing faster than they can understand. All the Birds in the Sky follows childhood friends Patricia, who becomes a witch, and Laurence, who becomes a technologist, as magic and science develop into competing responses to global crisis. The City in the Middle of the Night moves to a tidally locked planet where human settlements and an alien species have built very different ways of surviving. Anders’s prose is energetic, funny and emotionally direct, with big speculative ideas kept close to flawed relationships. Her work sits within contemporary science fiction, science fantasy and queer speculative fiction. All the Birds in the Sky is the clearest entry for readers who enjoy magic and technology treated as rival cultures rather than separate genres. Read more Less
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