Charlie Jane Anders

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Charlie Jane Anders (born July 24, 1969) is an American writer specializing in speculative fiction. She has written several novels as well as shorter fiction, published in magazines and on websites, and hosted podcasts; these works cater to both adults and adolescent readers. Her first science fantasy novels, such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night, cover mature topics, received critical acclaim, and won major literary awards like the Nebula Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Her young adult trilogy Unstoppable has been popular among younger audiences. Shorter fiction has been collected into Six Months, Three Days, Five Others and Even Greater Mistakes.

In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award.[1] Her 2011 novelette "Six Months, Three Days" won the 2012 Hugo Award[2] and was a finalist for the Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Award.[3][4] Her 2016 novel All the Birds in the Sky was listed No. 5 on Time's "Top 10 Novels" of 2016,[5] won the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel,[6] the 2017 Crawford Award,[7] and the 2017 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel;[8] it was also a finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel.[9]

Early life, education and career

Anders was born in a small farm town near Storrs, Connecticut on July 24, 1969[10][11][12] and grew up in nearby Mansfield.[13] She studied English and Asian Literature at the University of Cambridge,[14] and studied in China[10][13] before moving to San Francisco in the early 2000s.[10] Anders co-founded Other magazine, the "magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts", with Annalee Newitz, and served as publisher during the magazine's run from 2002 to 2007.[15] In 2006, she was a co-founding editor of the science fiction blog io9,[1] a position she left in April 2016 to focus on novel writing.[16]

Literary career

Anders has had science fiction published in Tor.com, Strange Horizons, and Flurb. Additional (non-science-fiction) literary work has been published in McSweeney's and Zyzzyva. Anders's work has appeared in Salon,[17] The Wall Street Journal,[18] Publishers Weekly,[19] San Francisco Bay Guardian,[20] Mother Jones,[21] and the San Francisco Chronicle.[22] She has had stories and essays in anthologies such as Sex For America: Politically Inspired Erotica,[23] The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes,[24] and That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.[25]

Her first novel, Choir Boy, appeared in 2005 from Soft Skull Press; a young adult story about a boy transitioning gender in order to sing. In 2014, Tor Books acquired two novels from Anders.[26] All the Birds in the Sky was published in 2016 and The City in the Middle of the Night was published 2019.[27]

In August 2025, she will publish a new novel entitled Lessons in Magic and Disaster.[28]

Unstoppable trilogy

Tor Teen acquired Unstoppable, a young adult trilogy from Anders in 2017.[29] 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.[30]

Other work

In addition to her work as an author and publisher, Anders is a longtime event organizer. She organized a "ballerina pie fight" in 2005 for Other magazine;[31] co-organized the Cross-Gender Caravan, a national transgender and genderqueer author tour;[32] and a Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl in San Francisco.[33] 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[34] and has been noted for its "free-associative author introductions".[35]

She has been a juror for the James Tiptree Jr. Award and for the Lambda Literary Award. She formerly published the satirical website godhatesfigs.com[36] which was featured by The Sunday Times as website of the week.[37]

A television adaptation of Anders' Six Months, Three Days was being prepared for NBC in 2013,Template:Update inline with the script written by Eric Garcia.[38]

In March 2018,[39] with her partner and co-host Annalee Newitz, Anders launched the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, which "explor[es] the meaning of science fiction, and how it's relevant to real-life science and society."[40] The podcast won the Hugo Award for Best Fancast in 2019, 2020 and 2022.[41][42][43]

Anders co-created the Marvel Comics character Shela Sexton, also known as Escapade, a trans mutant super hero. The character debuted in Marvel's Voices: Pride #1 in June 2022.[44][45]

Awards and recognition

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Literary awards

Year Work Award Category Result Ref.
2006 Choir Boy Edmund White Award — Shortlisted
2006 Lambda Literary Award Trans Literature Won [47]
2012 "Six Months, Three Days" Hugo Award Novelette Won
Locus Award Novelette Nominated
Nebula Award Novelette Shortlisted
Theodore Sturgeon Award — Shortlisted
2017 All the Birds in the Sky Crawford Award — Won [48]
Hugo Award Novel Shortlisted
James Tiptree Jr. Award — Honorable Mention
Locus Award Fantasy Novel Won [8]
Nebula Award Novel Won [6]
"Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue" James Tiptree Jr. Award — Shortlisted
2018 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
Theodore Sturgeon Award — Won [49]
2018 Six Months, Three Days, Five Others Locus Award Collection Nominated
2020 The City in the Middle of the Night Arthur C. Clarke Award — Shortlisted [50]
Locus Award Science Fiction Novel Won
"The Bookstore at the End of America" Locus Award Short Story Won
2022 Never Say You Can’t Survive Hugo Award Related Work Won [51]
Victories Greater Than Death Locus Award Young Adult Book Won
2023 Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak Locus Award Young Adult Book Won [52]
2024 Promises Stronger Than Darkness Locus Award Young Adult Book Won

Fancasts

Year Work Award Category Result Ref.
2019 Our Opinions Are Correct (shared with Annalee Newitz) Hugo Award Fancast Won [53]
2020 Won
2022 Won

Bibliography

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Novels

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Unstoppable

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Short story collections

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Short fiction

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2016 "Clover" Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Follows All the Birds in the Sky.
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2020 "If You Take My Meaning" Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Follows City in the Middle of the Night.

Non-fiction

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Critical studies and reviews of Anders' work

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Notes

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