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Charlie Jane Anders

Science Fiction & Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult | Education & Learning

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Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Aug 2025), about a young witch who teaches her heartbroken mother how to do magic. Previously, she published the Unstoppable trilogy, which began with Victories Greater Than Death. The trilogy has been optioned by Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society and Amazon Prime Video, and all three books won the Locus Award and were shortlisted for the Lodestar Award. Her writing advice book Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. She also recently published a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes. Her previous novels for adults include All the Birds in the Sky (2016) and The City in the Middle of the Night (2019). Her work has won the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda Literary, Crawford, Sturgeon and Locus Awards. Her TED Talk, "Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" has been viewed nearly four million times. With Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane co-hosts a podcast about the meaning of science fiction called Our Opinions Are Correct. Charlie Jane hugs trees, and keeps a British penny in her left shoe at all times.

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Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

Return of the Jedi

By: Olivie Blake, Saladin Ahmed, Charlie Jane Anders, Jonathan Davis, Fran Wilde, Mary Kenney, Mike Chen

Narrated by: Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Jon Hamm, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Scott Adams, Marc Thompson, Sam Witwer, Various

Length: 19 hrs and 36 mins

Release date: 05-09-23

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
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The City in the Middle of the Night: International Edition

By: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrated by: Jennifer O'Donnell, Laura Knight Keating

Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins

Release date: 29-10-20

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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All the Birds in the Sky: International Edition

By: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins

Release date: 29-10-20

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
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Never Say You Can't Survive

How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories

By: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrated by: Charlie Jane Anders

Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins

Release date: 17-08-21

Language: English

5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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As Good as New

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By: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 40 mins

Release date: 27-08-19

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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Six Months, Three Days

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By: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrated by: James MacKenzie

Length: 43 mins

Release date: 20-06-12

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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The Cartography of Sudden Death

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By: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 45 mins

Release date: 14-01-20

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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