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Charlie Jane Anders reads from "The City in the Middle of the Night"
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11:52Now PlayingCharlie Jane Anders reads sections from her novel "The City in the Middle of the Night" at Politics and Prose at Union Market on 2/16/19.
Anders’s stunning debut, All the Birds in the Sky, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a Hugo Award finalist. Her eagerly awaited follow-up takes us to the dying planet January, where humans live in a thin temperate zone between blazing heat and frozen darkness. The narrative follows Sophie, a student and sometime revolutionary, who’s exiled to the darkness. Presumed dead, she survives with the help of Mouth, one of the last of the ancient nomadic creatures. As the two set forth on a mission to restore order and reason, Anders builds an extraordinary world and also questions the meaning of culture, technology, politics, climate, time—and everything else that makes us human.
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of All the Birds in the Sky, which won the Nebula, Locus and Crawford awards and was on Time Magazine's list of the 10 best novels of 2016. Her Tor.com story "Six Months, Three Days" won a Hugo Award and appears in a new short story collection called Six Months, Three Days, Five Others. Her short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Wired Magazine, Slate, Tin House, Conjunctions, Boston Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, ZYZZYVA, and several anthologies. She was a founding editor of io9.com, a site about science fiction, science and futurism, and she organizes the monthly Writers With Drinks reading series. Her first novel, Choir Boy, won a Lambda Literary Award.
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