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3 weeks ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Emily Yu-Xuan Qin |Sebastian Castillo |Dennard Dayle |Charlie Jane Anders
With Katabasis, acclaimed fantasy author R.F. Kuang puts her own hellish spin on dark academia.
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1 month ago | 
texarkanagazette.com | Charlie Jane Anders
Science fiction and fantasy stories, by nature, reweave the fabric of reality in dazzling, sometimes jarring ways. Writers of fantastical tales often talk about "worldbuilding," which can mean crafting a familiar place with unfamiliar elements, or universes that follow entirely different rules than our own. As these new books prove, you can't tell a great speculative fiction story without a compelling world. 1.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Charlie Jane Anders
These books prove worldbuilding is vital to sci-fi and fantasy (washingtonpost.com) These books prove worldbuilding is vital to sci-fi and fantasy By Charlie Jane Anders 2025052114005400 Science fiction and fantasy stories, by nature, reweave the fabric of reality in dazzling, sometimes jarring ways.
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1 month ago | 
reactormag.com | Charlie Jane Anders
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is one of the most influential books of the 21st century—it looms so large, in fact, that it’s hard to believe it’s only been around for 21 years. My own novel All the Birds in the Sky boasts a front-cover blurb comparing it to David Mitchell’s masterpiece, something I’m super proud of. But lately, I’ve been thinking that Cloud Atlas has grown beyond being simply an influence and become something more like a genre.
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1 month ago | 
libraryjournal.com | Charlie Jane Anders
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Aug. 2025.
320p.
ISBN 9781250867322. $29.99.
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Jamie is a PhD candidate teaching and researching for a dissertation on 18th-century literature. She is also navigating the grief of losing her mother, Mae, to cancer as her other mom, Serena, hides from the world. In hopes of getting Serena to come out of her seclusion, Jamie reveals that she is a witch and begins to teach her mother how to cast the spells Jamie has used since she was young.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Charlie Jane Anders
3 nearly perfect science fiction and fantasy novels (washingtonpost.com) 3 nearly perfect science fiction and fantasy novels By Charlie Jane Anders 2025042712000000 We're lucky to be alive during a time when science fiction and fantasy authors are publishing bold, provocative stories that expand our ideas of how to talk about the future and the nature of power. This month, three new novels show just how much genre fiction is capable of. 1.
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2 months ago | 
latimes.com | Charlie Jane Anders
Back in 2020, I faced the bane of every writer’s existence: a blank page, in an empty notebook. I was starting my first novel for adults in years, and I always struggle to find a way into the story. Except this time, I had a secret weapon in my back pocket: I’d written three young-adult novels, and writing YA had taught me so much — and given my pen a whole new lease on life. Don’t let anybody tell you that young-adult books are easy to write.
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2 months ago | 
issues.org | Charlie Jane Anders
Rey Velasquez Sagcal Future Tense Fiction “The deliveries,” Vera says from behind the counter, “they just haven’t been showing up.” This story was originally published in Slate in January 2018. It is republished here as a part of the Future Tense Fiction project, presented by Issues in collaboration with ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. Author’s note: I’ve only gotten more worried about mass starvation since I wrote “The Minnesota Diet” back in 2017.
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2 months ago | 
uncannymagazine.com | Charlie Jane Anders |Clockpunk Studios
1. Jamie has never known what to say to her mother. And now—when it matters most of all, when she’s on a rescue mission—she knows even less. What the hell was she thinking? Somehow Jamie had imagined just marching up to the bright red door of her mother’s tiny house. She’d knock, and then proclaim: “Listen Mom, I’m a witch, and I’m here to teach you how to do magic.”As if that was a thing a person could say to her mother, after years of barely speaking to each other. So Jamie stands frozen.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
washingtonpost.com | Charlie Jane Anders
No, it’s not the Halloween season — but we’re still blessed this month with a wealth of terrific books about ghosts, vampires and other nightmare-inducing creatures. Horror fiction is punching way above its weight class in raising big questions while creeping us out. And one self-proclaimed “cozy” book shows how the tricks of horror can be used to pluck your heartstrings. ‘The Haunting of Room 904’ by Erika T.
