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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
3.0

Do I like this book? Is a tree red? The same answer to both: I don’t know.

On one level, this is a simple, schematic fable about scientific and magical views of the world and the extreme danger of allowing either to take over completely. It’s also a (somewhat sophomoric) thought experiment about what to do if the world you know is going to be destroyed. There’s also a much younger than sophomoric romance that continues into supposed adulthood, with the usual misunderstandings and mishaps to keep the lovers from getting together too quickly. And there are the doltish parents that come with the genre.

What makes it interesting are the details: the characters, the machines, the magic, the locations, one character who is a machine.