CHARLIE JANE ANDERS is the former editor-in-chief of io9, the popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. Her debut novel, All the Birds in the Sky, won the Nebula, Locus, and Crawford Awards and was on Time's list of the ten best novels of 2016. Her award-winning short fiction (including "Six Months, Three Days") has appeared on Tor.com, as well as Wired, Slate, Tin House, Conjunctions, Boston Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, ZYZZYVA, and several anthologies. Anders is also known for her journalism and activism; she organizes the popular Writers With Drinks series and has written for Salon, The Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and many other outlets.
Praise for The City in the Middle of the Night
"A breathtaking work of imagination and storytelling... making the
case for Anders as this generation's Le Guin." --Andrew Sean Greer,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
"An intimate portrait of people as much as it is a piece of
culturally aware social scifi -- a look at our moment in history
through a distorting lens of aliens and spaceships." --NPR "Tragic,
brave, and so very human...Anders dares to imagine something
different, a better way forward." --Den of Geek
"Classic SF in the mode of Ursula K Le Guin or Octavia
Butler....This is a millennial's novel, featuring young people
trying to make their way through an uncaring, corrupt and
intermittently violent world....Heartfelt and absorbing fiction."
--The Guardian
"Anders has written a unique book, one that uses tropes found in
old-school science fiction to comment on modern side effects of
class structures" --Washington Post "Original and gripping...The
City in the Middle of the Night may be set light-years away, but
it's likely to hit too close to home." --Paste "An even stronger
novel than Anders' Nebula Award-winning All the Birds in the Sky; a
tale that can stand beside such enduring works as Ursula K. Le
Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Frank Herbert's Dune, and Dan
Simmons' Hyperion." --Booklist, starred review "Anders contains
multitudes; it's always a fascinating and worthwhile surprise to
see what she comes up with next." --Kirkus, starred review "An
intricate tale of colonialism and evolution on both physical and
social levels. Stunningly storytelling that will capture readers'
minds and hearts." --Library Journal, starred review "Intricate,
embracing much of what makes a grand adventure: smugglers,
revolutionaries, pirates, camaraderie, personal sacrifice, wondrous
discovery, and the struggle to find light in the darkness.
Breathlessly exciting and thought-provoking." --Publishers Weekly,
starred review "Absolutely memorable...terrifying and exciting...
makes for a fascinating exploration of humanity and human
relationships." --Hypable "The kind of didactic, intelligent,
critical fiction that interrogates the boundaries of our current
moment through broad-scope questions...I couldn't recommend it
more." --Tor.com
"A stunning novel." --Edan Lepucki, author of Woman No. 17 "A
wildly inventive, inventively radical, radically subtle rush of a
novel." --Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
"Like a classic from another timeline... This book has notes of
Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip Pullman." --Robin Sloan, author of Mr.
Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore "The City in the Middle of the Night
does everything right. I f--ing love this book. It is really,
really breathtaking." --Daveed Diggs, Grammy and Tony Award winning
actor "A tale that unfolds with precision, presenting wholly
original ideas, new and beautiful life forms, and chillingly
extrapolated and corrupt societies. I highly recommend [it]."
--Anthony Rapp, Broadway star
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