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Born | Tolland County, Connecticut, U.S. | July 24, 1969
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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, [1] 1969 [2] ) is an American writer. She has written several novels as well as shorter fiction, published magazines and websites, and hosted podcasts. In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award. [3] Her 2011 novelette Six Months, Three Days won the 2012 Hugo [4] and was a finalist for the Nebula [5] and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. [6] Her 2016 novel All the Birds in the Sky was listed No. 5 on Time magazine's "Top 10 Novels" of 2016, [7] won the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel, [8] the 2017 Crawford Award, [9] and the 2017 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel; [10] it was also a finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel. [11]
Anders was born near Storrs, Connecticut, [12] and grew up in nearby Mansfield. [13] She studied English and Asian Literature at the University of Cambridge, [14] and studied in China [12] [13] before moving to San Francisco in the early 2000s. [12] 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 , [3] a position she left in April 2016 to focus on novel writing. [16]
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]
Tor Teen acquired Unstoppable, a young adult trilogy from Anders in 2017. [28] 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. [29]
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; [30] co-organized the Cross-Gender Caravan, a national transgender and genderqueer author tour; [31] and a Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl in San Francisco. [32] 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 [33] and has been noted for its "free-associative author introductions". [34]
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 [35] which was featured by The Sunday Times as website of the week. [36]
A television adaptation of Anders' Six Months, Three Days was being prepared for NBC in 2013[ needs update ], with the script written by Eric Garcia. [37]
In March 2018, [38] 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." [39] The podcast won the Hugo Award for Best Fancast in 2019, 2020 and 2022. [40] [41] [42]
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. [43] [44]
Anders participated in the 2018 BookCon conference in New York City. [45] She was Professional Guest of Honor at the 2019 WisCon.
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Year | Title [53] | Scope | First published | Notes |
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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 . | ||
"Six Months, Three Days" | Novelette | —— (June 8, 2011). "Six Months, Three Days". Tor.com . | ||
2012 | "Intestate" | —— (December 17, 2012). "Intestate". Tor.com . | ||
2013 | "Complicated and Stupid" | —— (August 5, 2013). "Complicated and Stupid". Strange Horizons . | ||
"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 . | ||
"As Good As New" | —— (September 10, 2014). "As Good As New". Tor.com . | |||
2016 | "Clover" | —— (October 25, 2016). "Clover". Tor.com . | Follows All the Birds in the Sky. | |
2017 | "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. | |
"The Minnesota Diet" | —— (January 17, 2018). "The Minnesota Diet". Future Tense . | |||
2020 | "If You Take My Meaning" | —— (February 26, 2020). "If You Take My Meaning". Tor.com . | Follows City In the Middle of the Night. | |
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