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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

Merryn's CBR12 Review No:18 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr12, charlie jane anders ·
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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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Marisol got into an intense relationship with the people on The Facts of Life…

As Good as New by Charlie Jane Anders

The Cartography of Sudden Death by Charlie Jane Anders

Six Months Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders

April 8, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Three shorts by Charlie Jane Anders, all audiobooks bought pretty cheaply on Audible (1 or 2 each) and all about various kinds of what-ifs regarding the space-time continuum. All of which goes pretty hand in hand with the fact that I woke up at 2am the other night and couldn’t get back to sleep and bingewatched the first season of “Future Man” which I honestly can’t recommend enough. That said! As Good as New This story begins with a young playwright/med student in year two […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: as good as new, charlie jane anders, six months three days, the cartography of sudden death

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:184 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: as good as new, charlie jane anders, six months three days, the cartography of sudden death ·
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A very strange little book, but I liked it?

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

March 1, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This book was so weird! And yet, I liked it more than I liked her first book, which I just never gelled with. I’m not sure that I liked every bit of this book (hated some of it, actually) but overall it was interesting. It takes place on a tidally locked planet (a planet that doesn’t spin on its axis, so that one side is always in dark and the other in light). The planet is called January, and humans migrated there hundreds of years […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, charlie jane anders, narfna, sci-fi, the city in the middle of the night

narfna's CBR12 Review No:23 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, charlie jane anders, narfna, sci-fi, the city in the middle of the night ·
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