All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Titan Books Ltd

Published:26th Jan '16

Should be back in stock very soon

All the Birds in the Sky cover

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.

WINNER OF BEST NOVEL IN 2016 NEBULA AWARDS, WINNER OF BEST FANTASY NOVEL IN 2017 LOCUS AWARDS, FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL IN THE 2017 HUGO AWARDS, TIME MAGAZINE BEST 100 FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIMEWINNER 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.

"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

ISBN: 9781785650550

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 330g

320 pages