Charlie Jane Anders | |
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 Anders atWorldcon 75 in 2017 | |
| Born | (1969-07-24)July 24, 1969 (age 56) |
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| Genre | Science fiction,short story,fiction |
| Notable works | Choir Boy,All the Birds in the Sky |
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Charlie Jane Anders (born July 24, 1969) is an American writer specializing inspeculative fiction. She has written several novels as well as shorter fiction. Her novels, including asAll the Birds in the Sky andThe City in the Middle of the Night, received critical acclaim and won major literary awards including theNebula Award for Best Novel andLocus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. All three novels in heryoung adult trilogyUnstoppable have won theLocus Award for Best Young Adult Book.
Anders's fiction has received numerous literary awards, including theCrawford Award,Hugo Award,Lambda Literary Award,Locus Award,Nebula Award, andTheodore Sturgeon Award.
Anders was born in a small farm town nearStorrs, Connecticut on July 24, 1969[1][2][3] and grew up in nearbyMansfield.[4] She studied English and Asian Literature at theUniversity of Cambridge,[5] and studied in China[1][4] before moving to San Francisco in the early 2000s.[1] Anders co-foundedOther magazine, the "magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts", withAnnalee Newitz, and served as publisher during the magazine's run from 2002 to 2007.[6] In 2006, she was a co-founding editor of the science fiction blogio9,[7] a position she left in April 2016 to focus on novel writing.[8]
Anders has had science fiction published inTor.com,Strange Horizons, andFlurb. Additional (non-science-fiction) literary work has been published inMcSweeney's andZyzzyva. Anders's work has appeared inSalon,[9]The Wall Street Journal,[10]Publishers Weekly,[11]San Francisco Bay Guardian,[12]Mother Jones,[13] and theSan Francisco Chronicle.[14] She has had stories and essays in anthologies such asSex For America: Politically Inspired Erotica,[15]The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes,[16] andThat's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.[17]
Her first novel,Choir Boy, appeared in 2005 fromSoft Skull Press; ayoung adult story about a boytransitioning gender in order to sing. In 2014,Tor Books acquired two novels from Anders.[18]All the Birds in the Sky was published in 2016 andThe City in the Middle of the Night was published 2019.[19]
In August 2025, her most recent novelLessons in Magic and Disaster was published.[20]
Tor Teen acquiredUnstoppable, ayoung adult trilogy from Anders in 2017.[21] The first novel,Victories Greater Than Death, was published in 2021, and the second,Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, in 2022. The third novel,Promises Stronger Than Darkness, was published in 2023.[22]
In addition to her work as an author and publisher, Anders is a longtime event organizer. She organized a "ballerina pie fight" in 2005 forOther magazine;[23] co-organized the Cross-Gender Caravan, a national transgender and genderqueer author tour;[24] and a Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl in San Francisco.[25] She emcees "Writers with Drinks", an award-winning San Francisco-based monthly reading series begun in 2001 that features authors from a wide range of genres[26] and has been noted for its "free-associative author introductions".[27]
She has been a juror for theJames Tiptree Jr. Award and for theLambda Literary Award. She formerly published the satirical website godhatesfigs.com[28] which was featured byThe Sunday Times as website of the week.[29]
A television adaptation of Anders'Six Months, Three Days was being prepared forNBC in 2013,[needs update] with the script written byEric Garcia.[30]
In March 2018,[31] with her partner and co-host Annalee Newitz, Anders launched thepodcastOur Opinions Are Correct, which "explor[es] the meaning of science fiction, and how it's relevant to real-life science and society."[32] The podcast won theHugo Award for Best Fancast in 2019, 2020 and 2022.[33][34][35]
Anders co-created theMarvel Comics character Shela Sexton, also known asEscapade, atransmutant super hero. The character debuted inMarvel's Voices: Pride #1 in June 2022.[36][37]
| Year | Work | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2019 | Our Opinions Are Correct (withAnnalee Newitz) | Hugo Award | Fancast | Won | [66] |
| 2020 | Won | [54] | |||
| 2022 | Won | [60] |
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| Year | Title | Scope[a] | First published | Notes |
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| 2008 | "Love Might Be Too Strong a Word" | —— (June 2008).Grant, Gavin J.;Link, Kelly (eds.). "Love Might Be Too Strong a Word".Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (22).Small Beer Press. | ||
| 2010 | "The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model" | —— (August 11, 2010)."The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model".Tor.com. | ||
| 2011 | "Source Decay" | —— (January 3, 2011)."Source Decay".Strange Horizons. | ||
| "Fairy Werewolf vs. Vampire Zombie" | —— (March 22, 2011).Gunn, Eileen (ed.). "Fairy Werewolf vs. Vampire Zombie".Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales (11). | |||
| "Six Months, Three Days" | Novelette | —— (June 8, 2011)."Six Months, Three Days".Tor.com. | ||
| "Mooney & Finch Somnotrope" | —— (July 12, 2011). "Mooney & Finch Somnotrope". InVanderMeer, Ann;VanderMeer, Jeff (eds.).The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities.Harper Voyager. | |||
| 2012 | "Intestate" | —— (December 17, 2012)."Intestate".Tor.com. | ||
| 2013 | "Complicated and Stupid" | —— (August 5, 2013)."Complicated and Stupid".Strange Horizons. | ||
| "Victimless Crimes" | —— (August 6, 2013)."Victimless Crimes".Apex Magazine. No. 51. | |||
| "The Master Conjurer" | —— (October 2013)."The Master Conjurer".Lightspeed Magazine. No. 41. | |||
| "The Time Travel Club" | Novelette | —— (October–November 2013). "The Time Travel Club".Asimov's Science Fiction.37 (10–11):20–35. | ||
| 2014 | "The Cartography of Sudden Death" | —— (January 15, 2014)."The Cartography of Sudden Death".Tor.com. | ||
| "Break! Break! Break!" | —— (March 2014)."Break! Break! Break!".Lightspeed Magazine. No. 46. | |||
| "The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick" | —— (June 2014). "The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick".Lightspeed Magazine. No. 49:Women Destroy Science Fiction!. | |||
| "Palm Strike's Last Case" | Novelette | —— (July 2014). "Palm Strike's Last Case".The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Vol. 127, no. 1 & 2. pp. 6–34. | ||
| "Rock Manning Can't Hear You" | —— (September 1, 2014). "Rock Manning Can't Hear You". InAdams, John Joseph;Howey, Hugh (eds.).The End Is Now. pp. 55–68. | |||
| "The Day It All Ended" | —— (September 9, 2014). "The Day It All Ended". InCramer, Kathryn;Finn, Ed (eds.).Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future.William Morrow. pp. 477–488. | |||
| "As Good As New" | —— (September 10, 2014)."As Good As New".Tor.com. | |||
| 2015 | "The Last Movie Ever Made" | —— (May 1, 2015). "The Last Movie Ever Made". InAdams, John Joseph;Howey, Hugh (eds.).The End Has Come. Broad Reach. | ||
| "Ghost Champagne" | Novelette | —— (July 2015)."Ghost Champagne".Uncanny Magazine (5). | ||
| "Rat Catcher's Yellows" | —— (August 18, 2015). "Rat Catcher's Yellows". InAdams, John Joseph;Wilson, Daniel H. (eds.).Press Start to Play.Vintage Books. | |||
| 2016 | "Captain Roger in Heaven" | Novelette | —— (2016)."Captain Roger in Heaven"(PDF).Catamaran Literary Reader. No. 14. | |
| "Reliable People" | —— (Fall 2016)."Reliable People".Conjunctions. No. 67. | |||
| "Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived By Her Mercy" | —— (July 2016). "Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived By Her Mercy". InStrahan, Jonathan (ed.).Drowned Worlds.Solaris. | |||
| "Clover" | —— (October 25, 2016)."Clover".Tor.com. | FollowsAll the Birds in the Sky. | ||
| 2017 | "A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime" | Novelette | —— (April 2017). "A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime". InAdams, John Joseph (ed.).Cosmic Powers.Saga Press. | |
| "Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" | —— (October 30, 2017)."Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue".Boston Review. | |||
| 2018 | Rock Manning Goes for Broke | Novella | —— (July 2018).Rock Manning Goes for Broke.Subterranean Press. | Follows "Rock Manning Can't Hear You". |
| "The Minnesota Diet" | —— (January 17, 2018)."The Minnesota Diet".Future Tense. | |||
| 2019 | "This Is Why We Can't Have Nasty Things" | —— (2019). "This Is Why We Can't Have Nasty Things".ZYZZYVA (117). | ||
| "The Bookstore at the End of America" | —— (February 5, 2019). "The Bookstore at the End of America". InAdams, John Joseph;LaValle, Victor (eds.).A People's Future of the United States. One World. | |||
| 2020 | "If You Take My Meaning" | —— (February 26, 2020)."If You Take My Meaning".Tor.com. | FollowsCity in the Middle of the Night. | |
| "The Visitmothers" | —— (December 8, 2020). "The Visitmothers". In Rogue, Lydia (ed.).Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers.Elly Blue Publishing. | |||
| 2021 | "My Breath Is a Rudder" | —— (November 9, 2021). "My Breath Is a Rudder".Even Greater Mistakes.Titan Books. | ||
| "Power Couple" | —— (November 9, 2021). "Power Couple".Even Greater Mistakes.Titan Books. |
