All the Birds in the Sky
Author: Charlie Anders
ISBN: 9781785650550
Publisher: Titan Books
Year first published: 26 Jan 2016
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD—AND THE BEGINNING OF OUR FUTURE.
Patricia is a witch who can communicate with birds. Laurence is a mad scientist and inventor of the two-second time machine. As teenagers they gravitate towards one another, sharing in the horrors of growing up weird.
When they later reconnect as adults, Laurence is an engineering genius living in near-future San Francisco, trying to stop the planet failing apart through technological intervention. Meanwhile, Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the magically gifted, and works with her fellow magicians to secretly repair the earth’s ever growing ailments.
As they each take sides in a cataclysmic war between science and magic, All the Birds in the Sky sees Laurence and Patricia try to make sense of life, sex and adulthood on the brink of the apocalypse.
ISBN: 9781785650550
Publisher: Titan Books
Year first published: 26 Jan 2016
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD—AND THE BEGINNING OF OUR FUTURE.
Patricia is a witch who can communicate with birds. Laurence is a mad scientist and inventor of the two-second time machine. As teenagers they gravitate towards one another, sharing in the horrors of growing up weird.
When they later reconnect as adults, Laurence is an engineering genius living in near-future San Francisco, trying to stop the planet failing apart through technological intervention. Meanwhile, Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the magically gifted, and works with her fellow magicians to secretly repair the earth’s ever growing ailments.
As they each take sides in a cataclysmic war between science and magic, All the Birds in the Sky sees Laurence and Patricia try to make sense of life, sex and adulthood on the brink of the apocalypse.
