Charlie Jane Anders
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Things are scary right now. We're all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it's easy to feel helpless. But we're not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible. Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency,...
Author
Series
Unstoppable volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tired of hiding in obscurity on Earth, Tina, the human clone of a brilliant alien tactician, pursues her destiny in space, but success is elusive until Tina and her best friend Rachel assemble a ragtag crew of humans and set out to save all the worlds.
Author
Series
Unstoppable volume 2
Publisher
TOR Teen, Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the international bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders, comes Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, the sequel to Victories Greater Than Death in the thrilling adventure Unstoppable series. They'll do anything to be the people they were meant to be - even journey into the heart of evil. Rachael Townsend is the first artist ever to leave Earth and journey out into the galaxy - but after an encounter with an alien artifact,...
Author
Publisher
Tor, Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In her short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders upends genre cliches and revitalizes classic tropes with heartfelt and pants-wettingly funny social commentary. The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future. A wildly popular slapstick filmmaker is drawn, against his better judgment, into working with a fascist militia, against a background of social collapse....
Author
Series
Unstoppable volume 3
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With only a ragtag band of misfits, crewmates, earthlings, friends, lovers--and one annoying frenemy--the Unstoppable Crew are up against the universe, and in order to survive, they may have to cross a once forbidden line.
They're the galaxy's most wanted--and our only hope. When Elza became a space princess, she thought she'd be spending her time at the palace, wearing gorgeous couture and soaking up everything there is to know--but instead, she's...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Best-selling writer Charlie Jane Anders launches the New Mutants into a new era! When Escapade and her new friends decide to try their hand at Robin-Hooding, they stumble onto a conspiracy that could level New York City: Count Nefaria is building a new Lethal Legion - and Escapade, Scout and Cerebella line up to enlist! But when they find themselves in way over their heads, surely the OG New Mutants will ride to the rescue? Maybe not: Wolfsbane is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world--and the beginning of our future Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's peers and families. But now they're both adults,...
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A human emissary sent to the world of Winter to bring it into a galactic civilization must find a way to bridge the gulf between his outlook and that of the natives, who can change gender at will.
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"All the better to read you with... It's a prick of blood, the bite of an apple, the evil eye, a wedding ring or a pair of red shoes. Curses come in all shapes and sizes, and they can happen to anyone, not just those of us with unpopular stepparents... Here you'll find unique twists on curses, from fairy tale classics to brand-new hexes of the modern world -- expect new monsters and mythologies as well as twists on well-loved fables. Stories to shock...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the Jedi through the eyes of a supporting character, from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors.
On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene...
On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene...
13) Drowned Worlds
Author
Publisher
Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time—the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises.
Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise—good or bad. Here you'll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard's The Drowned World,
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