Synopses & Reviews
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.
The Verge's Science Fiction and Fantasy Book We're Looking Forward to in 2019
Amazon's Best Books February 2019
Book Riot's Most Anticipated Books of 2019
Kirkus Reviews's 30 Speculative Fiction Books You Should Read in February 2019
Bookish's Winter's 10 Hottest Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reads
Bookbub's Best Science Fiction Books Coming Out in 2019
YA Books Central's Buzzworthy Books of Winter 2019
Would you give up everything to change the world?
Humanity clings to life on January — a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.
Two cities, built long ago in the meager temperate zone, serve as the last bastions of civilization — but life inside them is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside.
Sophie, a young student from the wrong side of Xiosphant city, is exiled into the dark after being part of a failed revolution. But she survives — with the help of a mysterious savior from beneath the ice.
Burdened with a dangerous, painful secret, Sophie and her ragtag group of exiles face the ultimate challenge &mdash and they are running out of time.
Welcome to the city in the middle of the night.
Review
"An intimate portrait of people as much as it is a piece of culturally aware social scifi —a look at our moment in history through a distorting lens of aliens and spaceships." NPR
Review
“A wildly inventive, inventively radical, radically subtle rush of a novel.” Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife
Review
“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.