All the Birds in the Sky

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What this book is about

Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead met as lonely misfit kids. Patricia learned she is a witch; Laurence built a two-second time machine. They were separated when they were teens, then reunited as adults in San Francisco as the world edges toward environmental catastrophe. She works with nature; he works with technology. The question the novel asks is whether magic and science can work together, or whether the battle between them will be what finally breaks everything. Charlie Jane Anders's debut is funny, warm, and genuinely strange — a love story told in genre collisions, with a climate-crisis urgency underneath.