All the Birds in the Sky: A Science Fiction Novel
In this deeply magical tale of life, love, apocalypse, and time travel, childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead don’t expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. Now they’re adults, living in San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart. Laurence is an engineering genius who’s working with a tech group that aims to avert a global climate disaster. Patricia is a graduate of a hidden academy for the world’s magically gifted and works with other magicians to secretly repair the world’s every-growing ailments. Little do they realize that something bigger than either of them, something begun years ago in their youth, is determined to bring them together—to either save the world, or plunge it into a new dark ages.
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Charlie Jane Anders is a writer and commentator. She has written several novels and is the publisher of other magazine, the “magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts”. She is editor in chief of io9.com and the organizer of the Writers With Drinks reading series. In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award. Her 2011 novelette Six Months, Three Days won the 2012 Hugo and was nominated for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. She is “probably the only person to have become a fictional character in a Star Trek novel and in one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books.” Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tor.com, Lightspeed, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, and several anthologies.
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