Charlie Jane Anders
Author of All the Birds in the Sky
About the Author
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Series
Works by Charlie Jane Anders
She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff (2006) — Editor — 206 copies
The Time Travel Club 6 copies
The Bookstore at the End of America 3 copies
New Mutants (2019-) #31 3 copies
New Mutants (2019-) #32 3 copies
New Mutants (2019-) #33 3 copies
New Mutants: Lethal Legion #2 3 copies
Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue 3 copies
Break! Break! Break! 2 copies
Source Decay 2 copies
The Day It All Ended {short story} 2 copies
The Master Conjurer 2 copies
Victimless Crimes 2 copies
Suicide Drive 2 copies
New Mutants: Lethal Legion #3 2 copies
Power Couple {short story} 1 copy
The Minnesota Diet 1 copy
Henry's Penis 1 copy
Cutting A Figure 1 copy
One Door Closes 1 copy
Horatius And Clodia 1 copy
The History Of The Internet 1 copy
Palm Strike's Last Case 1 copy
Other The Magazine For People Who Defy Categories No. 1 June 2003 — Editor — 1 copy
Os Pássaros no Fim do Mundo 1 copy
Associated Works
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Catalog Contributor — 429 copies
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers (2019) — Contributor — 414 copies
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contributor — 182 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49 • June 2014 (Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue) (2014) — Contributor — 159 copies
Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2019) — Contributor — 120 copies
From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Return of the Jedi (2023) — Contributor — 91 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020 (2020) — Contributor — 86 copies
Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person (2004) — Contributor — 67 copies
ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories (2006) — Contributor — 59 copies
Trans-galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers (Bikes in… (2020) — Contributor — 55 copies
The Big Feminist But: Comics about Women, Men, and the IFs, ANDs, and BUTs of Feminism (1656) — Contributor — 54 copies
The Long List Anthology Volume 4: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List (2018) — Contributor — 47 copies
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 59 (December 2015) - Queers Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue (2015) — Contributor — 44 copies
Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Themed Speculative Fiction (2018) — Contributor — 42 copies
Sunspot Jungle: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2018) — Contributor — 34 copies
The Long List Anthology Volume 7: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List (2022) — Contributor — 29 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July/August 2014, Vol. 127, Nos. 1 & 2 (2014) — Contributor — 14 copies
Six Tor.com Science Fiction & Fantasy Stories from the 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List (2011) — Contributor — 7 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Anders, Charlie Jane
- Birthdate
- c. 1972
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Connecticut, USA
- Places of residence
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
- Occupations
- publisher (Other Magazine)
- Relationships
- Newitz, Annalee (partner)
- Awards and honors
- Edmund White Award (Finalist, Debut Fiction, 2006)
Best of the Bay (2005)
Best of the Bay (2006) - Agent
- Russ Galen
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Statistics
- Works
- 72
- Also by
- 86
- Members
- 6,110
- Popularity
- #4,031
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 328
- ISBNs
- 98
- Languages
- 9
- Favorited
- 10
Trigger warnings: Blood, grief and loss depiction, death of a father in the past and a friend, dead bodies, genocide, earthquake, emesis, bullying and murder mentioned, physical assault and injury, fire, military violence and war themes
Score: Five points out of ten.
One year ago, I read the first instalment of the Unstoppable trilogy: Victories Greater Than Death--a massive disappointment. One year later, it was time to read the second part of the series: Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak. Unfortunately, when I picked it up, read and finished it, it was equally underwhelming. No library has the third part, Promises Stronger Than Darkness, but I won't read that; I'm done with this author.
It starts (more like continues) with the characters that need no introduction: Tina, Elza and Rachel, all living separate lives but none of them are on Earth anymore. Elza desires to be the first human to enter The Palace of Scented Tears, while Rachel can't draw after encountering an alien artefact and Tina seizes an opportunity to study at the Royal Space Academy but unexpectedly does not fulfil others' expectations there. Sounds disjointed? It sure is. It was a struggle to read each individual narrative. Splitting the book into three parts each starring a protagonist would be better; not to mention I couldn't connect or relate to any of them in the first place. The character soup didn't help either, as there were so many non-human people I had to meet that I couldn't remember or keep track of them. Rachel goes to a black hole to attempt to restore her artistic abilities, and Elza meets the antagonist from Victories Greater Than Death, Marrant, all while Tina stumbles upon the Bereavement. Nothing much happened in the first 300 pages. Damina, Kez and Yiwei were predominantly in the background. However, the last 100 quickened the pace to its detriment as I couldn't comprehend all the events that occurred. The malicious organisation, the Compassion, returns to execute their vitriolic plan to extinguish entire species by inserting black holes that eat suns from the inside, slowly destroying civilisations. Which is what happened to the Irriyaians and why most of them are dead now, including another person, Yatto. Tina also ceased to exist during the disordered pandemonium when she transformed into captain Thaoh Argentian, which concluded Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak on a low note.… (more)