All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders 9781785650550 [USED COPY]

WINNER OF BEST NOVEL IN 2016 NEBULA AWARDSFINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL IN THE 2017 HUGO AWARDSPatricia is a witch who can communicate with animals. Laurence is a mad scientist and inventor of the two-second time machine. As teenagers they gravitate towards one another, sharing in the horrors of growing up weird, but their lives take different paths...When they meet again as adults, Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world-and live up to his reputation-in near-future San Francisco. Meanwhile, Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the magically gifted, working hard to prove herself to her fellow magicians and secretly repair the earth's ever growing ailments.As they attempt to save our future, Laurence and Patricia's shared past pulls them back together. And though they come from different worlds, when they collide, the witch and the scientist will discover that maybe they understand each other better than anyone.

Interviews and features in sci-fi and entertainment magazines. Reviews in national newspapers. Blog tour across sci-fi and books blogs. Promotion on titanbooks.com. A deeply magical, darkly funny examination of life, love, and the Apocalypse by the editor-in-chief of io9.com. Charlie Jane Anders won the Prestigious Hugo Award for her novelette "Six Months, Three Days" in 2012, which was optioned for TV by NBC in 2013. The blend of SFF and literary fiction will appeal to fans of both genres; the author has been compared favourably to David Mitchell and Ursula K. Le Guin.

About the Author
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of the Unstoppable trilogy, which begins with Victories Greater Than Death. Her previous novels include, All the Birds in the Sky - which appeared on Time Magazine's list of 10 best novels of 2016 and won the Nebula, Crawford, and Locus Awards - and Choir Boy, which won a Lambda Literary Award. She's also the author of a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes. Her short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Boston Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Wired Magazine, Slate, Asimov's Science Fiction, Lightspeed, ZYZZYVA, Catamaran Literary Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and tons of anthologies. Her story "Six Months, Three Days" won a Hugo Award, and her story "Don't Press Charges And I Won't Sue" won a Theodore Sturgeon Award. With Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane also co-hosts the three-time Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

Reviews
"In All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders darts and soars, with dazzling aplomb, throwing lightning bolts of literary style that shimmer with enchantment or electrons." - Michael Chabon



Book Information
ISBN 9781785650550
Author Charlie Jane Anders
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Titan Books Ltd
Publisher Titan Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 330g