Charlie Jane Anders is an American writer and commentator. She has written several novels, published magazines and websites, and hosted podcasts. In 2005, she received the

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for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award. Her 2011 novelette ''

Six Months, Three Days "Six Months, Three Days" is a science fiction novelette by Charlie Jane Anders. It was originally published online on Tor.com in 2011, and was subsequently reprinted in ''Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2011 Edition'' and ''Year's Best SF 17''. ...

'' won the 2012

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and was a finalist for the Nebula and

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s. Her 2016 novel ''

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'' was listed No. 5 on ''

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'' magazine's "Top 10 Novels" of 2016, won the 2017

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, the 2017

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, and the 2017

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; it was also a finalist for the 2017

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Bio

Anders was born near Storrs, ConnecticutFallon, Claire (June 17, 2019).
Charlie Jane Anders Crosses The Divide
, Huffington Post. Retrieved 4 July 2022. and grew up in nearby Mansfield.Charlie Jane Anders: Whimsy Death Match
, ''

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'', January 10, 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2022. She studied English and Asian Literature at the

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,Cala, Christina (March 19, 2021).
Charlie Jane Anders: How Can Science Fiction Allow Us To Imagine Better Futures?
,

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. Retrieved 4 July 2022. and studied in China before moving to San Francisco in the early 2000s. Anders co-founded ''Other'' magazine, the "magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts", with

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, and served as publisher during the magazine's run from 2002 to 2007. In 2006, she was a co-founding editor of the science fiction blog ''

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'', a position she left in April 2016 to focus on novel writing.

Career

Anders has had science fiction published in

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, ''

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'', and '' Flurb''. Additional (non-science-fiction) literary work has been published in

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and ''

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''. Anders's work has appeared in '' Salon'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and the ''

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''. She has had stories and essays in anthologies such as ''Sex For America: Politically Inspired Erotica'', ''The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes'', and ''That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation''. Her first novel, ''

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'', appeared in 2005 from

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; a

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story about a boy transitioning gender in order to sing. In 2014,

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acquired two novels from Anders, ''

'', which appeared in 2016, and '' The City in the Middle of the Night'', appearing in 2019. Tor Teen acquired a

trilogy from Anders in 2017; the first novel, ''Victories Greater than Death'', appeared in 2021, and the second, ''Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak,'' in 2022. In addition to her work as an author and publisher, Anders is also a longtime event organizer. She organized a "ballerina pie fight" in 2005 for ''Other'' magazine; co-organized the Cross-Gender Caravan, a national transgender and genderqueer author tour; and a Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl in San Francisco. She emcees " Writers with Drinks", an award-winning San Francisco-based monthly reading series begun in 2001 that features authors from a wide range of genres and has been noted for its "free-associative author introductions." She has been a juror for the

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and for the

. She formerly published the satirical website godhatesfigs.com which was featured by the ''Sunday Times'' as website of the week. A television adaptation of Anders' ''Six Months, Three Days'' was being prepared for

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in 2013, with the script written by Eric Garcia. In March 2018, with her partner and co-host Annalee Newitz, Anders launched the

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''Our Opinions Are Correct'', which “explor sthe meaning of science fiction, and how it’s relevant to real-life science and society.” The podcast won the

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in 2019.

Awards and recognition

Anders participated in the 2018 BookCon conference in New York City. She was Professional Guest of Honor at the 2019

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. * 2005 Best of the Bay Award for Writers with Drinks. * 2006 Best of the Bay Award for Writers with Drinks. * 2006 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction finalist, for ''Choir Boy''. * 2006 Lambda Literary Award, for ''Choir Boy''. * 2011 Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Award nominations for ''

''. * 2012 Hugo Award for ''Six Months, Three Days''. * 2017 Nebula Award for ''

''. * 2017 IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award for ''All the Birds in the Sky.'' * 2017

for ''All the Birds in the Sky.'' * 2018

for '' Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue''. * 2019 Hugo Award for Best Fancast for ''Our Opinions Are Correct'' (shared with

).2019 Hugo Awards Announced
, by Cheryl Morgan, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved November 13, 2019 * 2020

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nomination for '' The City in the Middle of the Night''. * 2020

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for '' The City in the Middle of the Night''. * 2020

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for "The Bookstore at the End of America". * 2022 Hugo Award, Best Related Work for ''Never Say You Can’t Survive''. * 2022 Hugo Award for Best Fancast for ''Our Opinions Are Correct'' (shared with

Bibliography

Novels

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Short story collections

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Short fiction

Non-fiction

* * *''Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories''. New York: Tordotcom. 2021. ISBN 9781250800015.

Interviews

Critical studies and reviews of Anders' work

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Notes

External links

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''Other'' magazine

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