WINNER OF BEST NOVEL IN 2016 NEBULA AWARDS
FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL IN THE 2017 HUGO AWARDS
Patricia 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.
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"All the Birds in the Sky takes two very distinct genres and blends them together seamlessly. Lovers of science fiction and fantasy will be deeply drawn into this world, which hangs in the balance between a couple of extraordinary young people." - Veronica Belmont, Sword & Laser podcast
"Charlie Jane Anders has entwined strands of science and fantasy, both as genres and as ways of experiencing life, into a luminous novel that reveals the exhilarating necessity of each." - John Hodgman (The Areas of My Expertise)
"All the Birds in the Sky is a perfect synthesis of both sides of her writing life: a deeply felt story of love, magic, science, growing up an outsider, and living in apocalyptic times, bubbling over with a deep knowledge of genre history and geek culture." - Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi Blog
"Every so often a novel comes along that begs to be discussed among friends, argued over coffee, and read until the spine breaks. Allthe Birds in the Sky is such a book. It's a gorgeous coming-of-age story about magic and science, the apocalypse, and love." - Aidan Moher, writing in Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi Blog
"And that's what's fresh and vibrant about All the Birds in the Sky. Its standard genre tropes are well-chosen tools for doing a story that's about growing up, realizing who you are in the world, and then, far more importantly, realizing that the entire narrative of growing up and realizing who you are in the world is complete and utter bullshit and that the world is a terrifying and confusing place comprised entirely of people who are trying desperately to fool each other into thinking they aren't total fuckups. The magic/science opposition is there to be a binary opposition, with all the useful truth and false dichotomies implied." - Philip Sandifer
"A friendship between two adolescent misfits is the catalyst for an apocalyptic reckoning in Anders's clever and wonderfully weird novel... Fans of genre fiction will be delighted by Patricia and Laurence's story, and Anders's smart, matter-of-fact prose will appeal to a mainstream audience as well." - Publishers Weekly
“An exploration of the stories we tell ourselves about why we act the way we do... highly absorbing and enjoyable - 4 stars."- SFX Magazine
“An entertaining and audacious melding of science, magic, and just plain real life that feels perfectly right for our time.”- Buzzfeed Books
"A magnificent novel, unmissable."- Lev Grossman
“All The Birds In The Sky is a genre-bending, mind-blowing tour de
force. Charlie Jane Anders is a true original. Read and re-read.”
Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight
“A sensitive, funny and beautifully drawn study of friendship in the face of our world’s imminent end... moving, witty and worryingly relevant. 9/10" - SciFi Now Magazine
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the 'Best Novel' in the 2017 Nebula Awards & Nominated for a Hugo AwardChildhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's peers and families. But now they're both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them. Laurence is an engineering genius who's working with a group that aims to avert catastrophic breakdown through technological intervention into the changing global climate. Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the world's magically gifted, and works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world's every-growing ailments. Little do they realise 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. 'Into each generation of science fiction/fantasydom a master absurdist must fall, and it's quite possible that with All The Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders has established herself as the one for the Millennials.' N K Jemisin, NYT Book Review'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 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 TIME Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781785650550
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