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

''The founders of that city had a valid theory of human nature, but they took it too far.

Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Read what people said about All the Birds in the Sky here.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The City in the Middle of the Night Author Charlie Jane Anders At once more human and more alien.” - Daveed Diggs The journey you go on is so vast that you lose track of time and come out a changed person at the end.

It is a tender, quiet, introspective, brash and loud tale of revolution and love. Charlie Jane Anders has imagined a future for all of us and does not shy away or sugar coat what that means.

The action keeps you on the edge of your seat. The characters are beautiful and ugly and flawed and perfect. “ The City In The Middle of the Night does everything right. “A tale that unfolds with precision, presenting wholly original ideas, new and beautiful life forms, and chillingly extrapolated and corrupt societies. LeGuin and Philip Pullman.” - Robin Sloan, author of Sourdough. “The City In The Middle of the Night reads like a classic from another timeline it's the kind of pure, high-concept, far-future science fiction that presses all my buttons. “ The City in the Middle of the Night is a wildly inventive, inventively radical, and radically subtle mad rush of a novel.” - Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife. A stunning novel.” Edan Lepucki, author of Woman No. Again and again, I was struck by the richness of this world and the people in it. “I'm astounded by Charlie Jane Anders' imaginative powers and the scope of her storytelling. Each page holds wonders, making the case for Anders as this generation’s Le Guin.” - Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less. “One of America’s most inventive writers has done it again: City In the Middle of the Night is a breathtaking work of imagination and storytelling, set in a world of originality, intelligence and empathy. “Anders weaves an intricate tale of colonialism and evolution on both physical and social levels.” - Library Journal (starred review) Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Dan Simmons’ Hyperion.” - Booklist (starred review) “An even stronger novel than Anders’ Nebula Award–winning All the Birds in the Sky a tale that can stand beside such enduring works as Ursula K. “Anders contains multitudes it’s always a fascinating and worthwhile surprise to see what she comes up with next.” - Kirkus (starred review) This breathlessly exciting and thought-provoking tale will capture readers’ imaginations.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Anders’s worldbuilding is 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.

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