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An Amazon Best Book of February 2016: An alchemical collusion—and sometimes collision—between the forces of magic and science, Anders’ novel swirls together fantasy and sci-fi into an often absurd but never slight modern tale of a witch and a tech genius who grow up together, grow apart, and finally have to save the world. This book throws a lot at the reader: coming-of-age and real adulthood, talking cats and two-minute time machines, assassins and venture capitalists, hilarity and hefty philosophy, technology and Nature. But Anders’ clever writing propels the story through its twists and turns, delivering a mesmerizing, thoughtful, and poignant novel that has “award winner” written all over it. --Adrian Liang. About the Author : Charlie Jane Anders is the editor-in-chief of io9.com, the extraordinarily popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. Her Tor.com story "Six Months, Three Days" won the 2013 Hugo Award and was subsequently picked up for development into a NBC television series. She has also had fiction published by Tin House, Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction and McSweeney. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Shipping: FREE From United Kingdom to U.S.A. Customers who bought this item also bought. Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace. 1. All the Birds in the Sky (Paperback) Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. WINNER 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. Seller Inventory # FOY9781785650550. 2. All the Birds in the Sky (Paperback) Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. WINNER 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. Seller Inventory # AA79781785650550. 3. All the Birds in the Sky (Paperback) Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the 'Best Novel' in the 2017 Nebula Awards & Nominated for a Hugo Award Childhood 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. 4. All the Birds in the Sky. Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 9781785650550. 5. All the Birds in the Sky. Book Description Condition: New. pp. 320. Seller Inventory # 373311159. 6. All The Birds In The Sky. Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ria9781785650550_new. 7. All the Birds in the Sky. Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 7.80x5.31x1.18 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __1785650556. 8. All the Birds in the Sky. Book Description Condition: New. Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San Francisco. Something is determined to bring them back together-to either save the world, or end it. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. . . 2016. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781785650550. 9. All The Birds In The Sky. Book Description Condition: New. book. Seller Inventory # M1785650556. 10. All the Birds in the Sky. Book Description Condition: New. Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San Francisco. Something is determined to bring them back together-to either save the world, or end it. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. . . 2016. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781785650550. Cookie Consent and Choices. NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic. This information is shared with social media, sponsorship, analytics, and other vendors or service providers. See details. 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There are greater forces moving around them, from the adults who should be taking—though often fail to—their best interests at heart to the polarities of chaos and order that each is drawn to in different ways. Of course, they’re much stranger adults, coming into and out of each other’s lives, stories, and grand dreams. There’s something between them, though, and their history that has the potential to save our species and home as we know it. Patricia and Laurence are, as the flap copy of Charlie Jane Anders’ All the Birds in the Sky says, muddling through “postmillennial life and love in a world careening into chaos.” However, their big ideas and private hopes are more significant than either can imagine. It’s a book about science and magic; it’s a book about clumsy love, awkward humans, and the mistakes we tend to make as people; it’s also a book about “these sorts of stories” and genre fiction, though less directly. Combining a science-fictional sense of wonder with a magical sense of place and time, Anders has constructed a handsome and delightful novel that represents, intentionally and indirectly alike, the best that the genre has to offer. It’s grand and intimate at the same time, mundane and fabulous alike, livened up with the high-energy intensity and touch of the bizarre that is familiar from Anders’s short fiction as well. As for this particular reader, I frankly couldn’t be more pleased than to have started out 2016 with this novel. It’s just damn good, on each level that I cared to parse it at. To begin, the prose is compulsively readable. Anders has found a spectacular balance between the weirdness of her short fiction—sometimes baroque in its strangeness—and the rung-bell clarity of narrative prose in a novel-length structure. I had trouble putting the book down, because despite the breaks in time as we shift throughout Patricia and Laurence’s lives, there never seems to be a dull moment. The descriptions are great; the dialogue is human and hysterical and dark at turns; the plot moves fast and delicate. The structure, too, is well executed. It could be disorienting to jump around in time so much in two characters’ lives, but Anders chooses exactly the right moments to shift and move the timeline. It’s just enough, never too much or too little. I almost wanted to crow with delight at the skill of it, at a few specific occasions: feeling just thrown enough to scramble a little and figure out the changes that time had wrought between the sections of the novel, while never losing the hook. From a purely technical standpoint, it’s a hit out of the park—not least because it’s often dabbling in those familiar narratives of wizard-schools and singularity-seekers, twisting them around into something a bit more human and natural. The thematic arc is familiar because of that, in some ways, but I also thought it was satisfying and richly done—plus, it’s paired so directly with the plot, they’re more or less one and the same. Patricia and Laurence are both on sides that they perhaps consider opposites, magic and science, but the reality is that is isn’t about poles but juxtapositions, spectrums, and “sides of a coin” in the sense that they are conjoined . Each is prone to hubris: one glamorizes science without acknowledging its dangers; the other values the natural world at the cost of the human condition. Combined, it is possible to see the failures of each and the failures of binaristic thinking. (It’s no real surprise that I appreciated so grandly a book all about deconstructing one of the classic binaries that is still so commonly upheld in our lives, our stories, our world at large.) The figure of Peregrine—the AI who is a bounded but constant background presence in the novel—is a melding of magic and tech to create something entirely new but still of a piece with the old: it’s about evolution and synthesis, not replacement and derision. Anders illustrates this through the failures of her characters in their separate spheres as well as with the conclusion of the novel. After all, the only way to avoid ripping a hole in the world with an accidental doomsday machine is magical interference; the only way to stop magical genocide is with the “child” of sorts that Patricia and Laurence created together in the form of their AI. But, even that must be joined with the base of magic and the natural world to have a complete web. It’s about balance: balance between people, but also balance between ideas and nodes. It’s a novel very much invested in rhizomic rather that polar thinking—so it’s got that high level Big Ideas thing going for it—but it’s also deeply invested in the individual, the human, the emotional and personal costs of our lives. One thing that I found charming, also, is that at the heart of all this post-millennial weirdness is a fairly old-fashioned tale of soulmates: people who fit each other, despite the travails and losses and separations that plague them throughout their lives. There’s a freshness to that, paradoxically, as well—because it isn’t easy, for either Patricia or Laurence, to make their relationship work. There are communication issues, to say the least; there are issues of need, place, and poor timing; there are different life-paths and decisions that have to be made alone. It’s a sort of updated picture of the couple that are meant to be, one that acknowledges the hardship and struggle of that kind of relationship rather than making is sunny and fated and perfect. But without that match—without their jagged individual edges lining up, again and again, over years and years of life—then humanity would have been doomed by the overreaches of science or magic or both. In this, as with all things in the novel, there is a healthy balance between the narrative schools we are familiar with: it’s both random happenstance and fate, both magic and science, that allows these two people to come together and do something immense. It is, to be truthful, one of the first straight romance plots I’ve read in years that I found natural and compelling and weird in the right ways. It feels honest and balanced between the roles and expectations each character has based on gender and desire and performance. While in some ways both Laurence and Patricia are both commentaries or plays on stereotypes—the boy nerd, the girl witch—they are also very well developed equally stupid about different things, and fully realized as humans. It’s refreshing. As a whole, All the Birds in the Sky is a stellar in-genre debut novel (though it isn’t Anders’s first novel). It’s smart and simple at once, doing familiar things in inventive ways with sharp prose and great characters. I’ve been thoroughly pleased to read it, and I think it speaks specifically to issues in our own world and lives that many people will find cogent. Definitely both thumbs up and a hearty recommendation from me, here. All the Birds in the Sky is available January 26th from Tor Books. Read the first four chapters from the novel here on Tor.com, beginning with chapter one. Brit Mandelo is a writer, critic, and editor whose primary fields of interest are speculative fiction and queer literature, especially when the two coincide. She can be found on Twitter or her website. All the Birds in the Sky - by Charlie Jane Anders (Paperback) "From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world--and the beginning of our futureChildhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during middle 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. 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 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.A deeply magical, darkly funny examination of life, love, and the apocalypse"-- Book Synopsis. Entertainment Weekly 's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now Winner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel Finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel Paste 's 50 Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far) List. "The book is full of quirkiness and playful detail. but there's an overwhelming depth and poignancy to its virtuoso ending." --NPR From the former editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning Nebula Award-winning and Hugo-shortlisted novel about the end of the world -- and the beginning of our future. An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go to war in order to prevent the world from tearing itself apart. To further complicate things, each of the groups' most promising followers (Patricia, a brilliant witch and Laurence, an engineering "wunderkind") may just be in love with each other. As the battle between magic and science wages in San Francisco against the backdrop of international chaos, Laurence and Patricia are forced to choose sides. But their choices will determine the fate of the planet and all mankind. In a fashion unique to Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky offers a humorous and, at times, heart-breaking exploration of growing up extraordinary in world filled with cruelty, scientific ingenuity, and magic. Review Quotes. The very short list of novels that dare to traffic as freely in the uncanny and wondrous as in big ideas--I think of masterpieces like The Lathe of Heaven ; Cloud Atlas ; Little, Big --has just been extended by one.--Michael Chabon. "What a magnificent novel--a glorious synthesis of magic and technology, joy and sorrow, romance and wisdom. Unmissable." --Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians. "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. highly recommended." --N. K. Jemisin, The New York Times Book Review. Charlie Jane Anders has entwined strands of science and fantasy, both as genres and as ways of experiencing life, into a luminous novel. --John Hodgman. Has the hallmarks of an instant classic. -- Los Angeles Times. "Genius. My fave read this year." --Margaret Cho. "Do yourself a favor and go pick up All The Birds in the Sky! You will lurve it." --Amber Benson. "Thoughtful and hip and fantasy and sci-fi all wrapped up. A+." --Felicia Day. "Everything you could ask for in a debut novel -- a fresh look at science fiction's most cherished memes, ruthlessly shredded and lovingly reassembled." --Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing. "Read it immediately. Thank me later." --Laurie Penny. "It's fantastic when someone who is so important in the scifi world can flat-out write as well as critique and analyze." --Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of Alive. "The craziest thing about Charlie Jane Anders' book is how it remains so intimate and accessible despite genre jumping. All the Birds in the Sky moves from a coming of age story to a millennial romance and then a dystopia -- and it's filled with so much of the uncanny. That includes, but is not limited to, a shapeshifting teacher, talking birds and an anti-gravity gun. A truly fun read." -- New York Daily News. "A fairy tale and an adventure rolled into one, All the Birds in the Sky is a captivating novel that shows how science and magic can be two sides of the same coin." -- The Washington Post. "Anyone suffering from midwinter blues should read Charlie Jane Anders's between-categories fantasy All the Birds in the Sky . The scenario is (almost) Harry Potter, the tone is (quite like) Kurt Vonnegut, the effect is entirely original." -- The Wall Street Journal. "Heartfelt, ambitious, and dynamic. Fantastic stuff." -- Financial Times. "Imagine that Diana Wynne Jones, Douglas Coupland and Neil Gaiman walk into a bar and through some weird fusion of magic and science have a baby. That offspring is Charlie Jane Anders' lyrical debut novel All the Birds in the Sky ." -- Independent. "Highly readable and imaginative, All the Birds in the Sky will sing to Philip Pullman fans." -- Mail on Sunday "An entertaining and audacious melding of science, magic, and just plain real life that feels perfectly right for our time." -- BuzzFeed , "5 Great Books to Read in February" "Like the work of other 21st century writers -- Kelly Link and Lev Grossman come immediately to mind -- All the Birds in the Sky serves as both a celebration of and corrective to the standard tropes of genre fiction. [. ] Like William Gibson, Anders weaves a thrilling, seat-of-the-pants narrative with a compelling subtext." --Elizabeth Hand, Los Angeles Times. "Two crazy kids, one gifted in science, the other in magic, meet as children, part and meet again over many years. Will they find love? Will they save the world? Or will they destroy it and everyone in it? Read Anders lively, wacky, sexy, scary, weird and wonderful book to find the answers." --Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club. Impossibly hip fiction with the voice and cultural inflections of the millennials. Often quirky and amusing but rising to encompass a moral seriousness and poignancy. an engaging book. -- The Sydney Morning Herald.