bookishmarie 's review for:

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

5.0

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Weird and beautiful, Charlie Jane Anders gifts us with a fairy tale for our future. As the world implodes under a battle between science and magic in Anders' tale, the only route forward is to embrace both the differentness in ourselves and those things which terrify us by their foreign-ness in others. The story of Patricia and Laurence is all of our stories, and her odd blending of science-fiction and fantasy underscores the premise that we can only survive by embracing both the magic and the realism in life and love.