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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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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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