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Little Red Box of Love and Murder

Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders

April 1, 2022 by Emmalita 2 Comments

Last year I read two of Charlie Jane Anders books, Victories Greater than Death and Never Say You Can’t Survive. Both were excellent and I recommend you read them. Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak is the sequel to Victories, so you really need to read that one first. Dreams is also closely related to Never Say You Can’t Survive, Anders’ book about writing. In Victories, Anders plays with the Chosen One trope. Tina is a clone of a great warrior and she was created to allow […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: charlie jane anders, Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak, LGBTQIA, trans author

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: charlie jane anders, Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak, LGBTQIA, trans author ·
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Write Your Way Out

Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders

June 20, 2021 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I felt a little guilty when I was notified that I had been granted an advance reader copy of Charlie Jane Ander’s essay collection, Never Say You Can’t Survive. I am not a writer and I have no aspirations to be a writer. I have no qualifications for judging this book. However, I have never let a lack of qualifications get in my way of judging things. The short version is, I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to any creative person. I have […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: advance reader copy, charlie jane anders, creative process, essays, NetGalley, Never Say You Can't Survive, trans author

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:56 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: advance reader copy, charlie jane anders, creative process, essays, NetGalley, Never Say You Can't Survive, trans author ·
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So Many Tiny Hearts of Light

Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders

April 1, 2021 by Emmalita 4 Comments

One of my most common anxiety dreams is having to do something I have already done well, but I can’t remember how I did it. I start off confident and everyone around me is confident and full of expectation. It slowly becomes clear that I don’t know what I’m doing. My panic grows as I feel everyone’s disappointment. Charlie Jane Anders turned my nightmare into the premise of a space adventure. Imagine that you grow up knowing you are the clone of an intergalactic leader […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: advance reader copy, charlie jane anders, NetGalley, trans author, Victories Greater than Death

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: advance reader copy, charlie jane anders, NetGalley, trans author, Victories Greater than Death ·
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Unsustainable human society hammered into the meridian of an alien planet

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

December 19, 2020 by Merryn 2 Comments

January is a tide-locked planet, one side permanently cold dark night, one blinding searing day, with human colonists clinging to precarious life on the narrow boundary.  Outside of the human cities the monsters will kill you if the planet doesn’t get you first. Xiosphant is a socially rigid city state, forcing the endless twilight into an intricate regime of well-ordered citizens.  “Everyone in Xiosphant was weirdly polite, just so long as you pretended all their made-up stuff was real.” Sophie is a student from the […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cbr12, charlie jane anders, trans author

Merryn's CBR12 Review No:18 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr12, charlie jane anders, trans author ·
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Too Many Extremes

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

September 13, 2020 by Claire Badger 1 Comment

In August, LittlePlat wrote about this book and I thought “huh, that sounds up my alley,” and I quickly bought it and started to read it. It took a while to get into, but by the second half of the book I couldn’t put it down, and spent a rainy day at the cottage finishing it up. I love the world building. Tidal locked planets seem to be a hot topic in sci-fi these days, and I’ve enjoyed reading some of the ideas about how […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, charlie jane anders, queer, sci-fi, Tidal Locked Planet

Claire Badger's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, charlie jane anders, queer, sci-fi, Tidal Locked Planet ·
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A Unique Read, Above All Else.

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

August 15, 2020 by LittlePlat 6 Comments

If there is one thing that I can say about Charlie Jane Anders, is that she can commit to keeping things weird. Like, deeply, deeply, weird. She’s also not at all afraid to make ambitious leaps with her writing. Her first novel, All the Birds in the Sky was a broad, experimental urban science-fantasy mash-up, which ended up charming a lot of people. And while I could recognise the flashes of brilliance in the book, the whole thing didn’t come together in a way I […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, charlie jane anders, friendship, Hugo Nominee, Speculative Fiction, the city in the middle of the night

LittlePlat's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, charlie jane anders, friendship, Hugo Nominee, Speculative Fiction, the city in the middle of the night ·
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  • llamareadsbooks on This guy wanted to be Tolkien so very badly.Uh no. Alllll the no. I read and liked some of his other stuff years ago - Lions of Al-Rassan (which might still hold up?)...
  • llamareadsbooks on this one broke meAs someone who has inexplicably read a lot of "oh no, we are acquaintances who sorta dislike each other but now we are STUCK in...
  • narfna on “Each of us has a monster we must confront, a monster designed to test our personal weaknesses.”I've never seen it either!
  • narfna on This guy wanted to be Tolkien so very badly.That is an excellent decision. I have a couple of his other books on my TBR but the bad taste this series has put in...
  • Pooja on This guy wanted to be Tolkien so very badly.Okay, ew on the stuff that happened to Jennifer. I do have some GGK on the slate as I've heard good things about him, but...
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