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I don't usually read sci-fi, but I will read ANYTHING Charlie Jane Anders writes. She is constantly breathing new life into old genres, and writes characters so well you immediately feel like you know them. This book, her newest, is incredibly moving and thought-provoking — I can't stop thinking about it! Recommended By Leah C., Powells.com
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Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night.
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives."
January is a dying planet — divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk.
But life inside the cities is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside.
Sophie, a student and reluctant revolutionary, is supposed to be dead after being exiled into the night. Saved only by forming an unusual bond with the enigmatic beasts who roam the ice, Sophie vows to stay hidden from the world, hoping she can heal.
But fate has other plans — and Sophie's ensuing odyssey and the ragtag family she finds will change the entire world.
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"Tragic, brave, and so very human...Anders dares to imagine something different, a better way forward." Den of Geek
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"Intricate, embracing much of what makes a grand adventure: smugglers, revolutionaries, pirates, camaraderie, personal sacrifice, wondrous discovery, and the struggle to find light in the darkness. Breathlessly exciting and thought-provoking." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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"The kind of didactic, intelligent, critical fiction that interrogates the boundaries of our current moment through broad-scope questions...I couldn't recommend it more." Tor.com
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"A breathtaking work of imagination and storytelling... making the case for Anders as this generation's Le Guin." Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
About the Author
CHARLIE JANE ANDERS is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com, the popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. Her debut novel, All the Birds in the Sky, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a Hugo Award finalist. Her story, "Six Months, Three Days" won a Hugo Award. She has also had fiction published by McSweeney's, Lightspeed, and ZYZZYVA. Her journalism has appeared in Salon, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and many other outlets.