All the Birds in the Sky
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Winner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel
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“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.
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The other thing that kept throwing me out of the story in this one was the author randomly pointing out when characters were not white ("that Japanese guy," "a Punjabi accent," "an African-American man") starting around page 100, which only made me realize that the world the author built up until page 100 was supposed to be envisioned as 100% white, and white is the default for all characters in the book. There was nothing in the plot that necessitated pointing out who wasn't white, so it felt very much like tokenizing, and again, only reinforced that the author was imagining a white world and expected me to as well.
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