Charlie Jane Anders

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Charlie Jane Anders (born circa 1969 in Connecticut ) is an American writer best known as a writer of science fiction and fantasy . She is also the host and mistress of ceremonies of the literary stage show Writers with Drinks, which has been taking place since 2001 .

Life

Charlie Anders is the child of two college professors from the east coast. In school she had considerable difficulties from the beginning until she was diagnosed with special educational needs ( special needs child ) due to a disorder of the sensory processing and she finally learned to write with the support of a committed teacher. As a special incentive, the teacher promised her that if she could master the writing, she would be able to write a school play and that it would also be performed. Anders sees the beginning of her letter here.

Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz 2011

Anders grew up in the small town of Mansfield in rural Connecticut, then went to England to study English and Asian literature at Cambridge University and stayed in China for a while. Anders now lives in San Francisco , since 2000 in a partnership with the journalist and writer Annalee Newitz .

Together with Newitz, Anders published the magazine Other from 2002 , a magazine for freaks , outsiders and all forms of marginality. By 2007, the magazine appeared in 13 issues with around 2000 copies, which were mainly distributed through Californian independent bookstores.

Since 2002, Charlie Jane Anders organizers, Mistress of Ceremonies and Conférencieuse of Writers with drinks , a stage show with a colorful mix of author reading , comedy and variety show that every second Saturday of the month in the nightclub The Make Out Room takes place in San Francisco and Among other things, because of Anders' weird, often surreal ideas of her guests in the San Francisco Bay Area has cult status and accordingly from 2005 to 2008 four times with the Best of the Bay Award and in 2009 with the Emperor Norton Award for “extraordinary, poor reason Unhindered Ingenuity and Creativity ”was awarded.

In 2008, Anders started the blog io9 together with Newitz at Gawker Media , whose topics include science fiction, fantasy , futurology , science and technology. When io9 became part of Gizmodo in 2015 , Newitz took over the editing of Gizmodo and Anders became editor-in-chief at io9 . In 2016 Anders left io9 to devote more time to writing. Another joint project by Newitz and Anders was the anthology She's Such a Geek (2006). Since March 2018 they have been creating the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct together .

In 1999 Anders published his first short story Skin Switch in Maelstrom Speculative Fiction . Other short stories followed, including Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy (2016), which was included in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction anthology , and Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue , 2018 received the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award . The Six Months, Three Days, Five Others collection with the cover story, which won the Hugo in 2012 , and five other short stories were nominated for the Locus Award in 2018 .

Anders' first book publication was the cross-dressing guide The Lazy Crossdresser (2002). Her first novel Choir Boy was published in 2005. It is about a boy who desperately wants to continue singing in the boys' choir. He succeeds in convincing the doctors to treat him with antiandrogens to prevent the onset of the voice change . The side effect is that breasts develop and he is perceived as female, which is why he has to start dealing with his gender role and transgender issues. The novel received a Lambda Award .

In 2016, the novel All the Birds in the Sky was published , which is a mixture of fantasy and science fiction, insofar as it is about the relationship between a witch and a mad scientist , who grew up together and later lost sight of each other. They meet again later and have to use their various skills together to face an end-time threat to the world. The novel has received multiple awards and won the Nebula Award in 2017 .

In 2019, the science fiction novel The City in the Middle of the Night was published, with which she won the Locus Award for best fantasy novel.

Anders published until 2002 under the author name Charles Anders, then until 2010 under the more ambivalent Charlie Anders, since then as Charlie Jane Anders.

Awards

  • 2006: Lambda Literary Award for the Roman Choir Boy in the Transgender / GenderQueer category
  • 2009: Emperor Norton Award for the series Writers with Drinks and together with Annalee Newitz for the blog io9
  • 2012: Hugo Award for the story Six Months, Three Days
  • 2017: Nebula Award for the novel All the Birds in the Sky
  • 2017: Locus Award for the novel All the Birds in the Sky
  • 2017: Crawford Award for the novel All the Birds in the Sky
  • 2018: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the short story Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue
  • 2019: Hugo Award for Our Opinions Are Correct as best fancast, together with Annalee Newitz

bibliography

Novels
  • Choir Boy (2005)
  • All the Birds in the Sky (2016)
  • Rock Manning Goes for Broke (2018)
  • The City in the Middle of the Night. Tor books, 2019, ISBN 978-0-765-37996-2
collection
  • Six Months, Three Days, Five Others (2017)
Short stories
  • Skin Switch (in: Maelstrom Speculative Fiction # 3, Winter 1999 )
  • Infinite Offspring (in: Space and Time, # 91, Spring 2000 )
  • Not to Mention Jack (in: Strange Horizons, 28 January 2002 )
  • Noun Catcher (in: Peep Show # 3, June 2002 )
  • I Pee on Your Cookout (2002, in: Jack Fisher (Ed.): Strangewood Tales )
  • Anxiety Branson, Social Security Hustler (2004, in: Nick Mamatas (Ed.): The Urban Bizarre )
  • Cookies (2004, in: Paul Fry (Ed.): Peep Show, Volume 1 )
  • Power Couple, or Love Never Sleeps (2006, in: Rusty Morrison (Eds.) And Ken Keegan (Eds.): ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories )
  • One Door Closes (in: Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue # 2, Winter, 2006-2007 )
  • Cutting a Figure (in: GUD Issue 0 - Spring 2007 )
  • Horatius and Clodia (in: Strange Horizons, February 26, 2007 )
  • The Last Young Person Alive Writes a Memoir (in: Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue # 3, Spring-Summer, 2007 )
  • Suicide Drive (in: Helix, Winter 2008 )
  • Love Might Be Too Strong a Word (in: Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, # 22, June 2008 )
  • The History of the Internet (in: Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue # 7, Spring-Summer, 2009 )
  • Henry's Penis (in: Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue # 8, Fall-Winter, 2009 )
  • Source Decay (in: Strange Horizons, January 3, 2011 )
  • Fairy Werewolf vs. Vampire Zombie (in: Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue # 11, Spring-Summer, 2011 )
  • Mooney & Finch Somnotrope (2011, in: Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Eds.): The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities )
  • Complicated and Stupid (in: Strange Horizons, 5 August 2013 )
  • Victimless Crimes (in: Apex Magazine, August 2013 )
  • The Master Conjurer (in: Lightspeed, October 2013 )
  • The Time Travel Club (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2013 )
  • Break! Break! Break! (2014, in: John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Eds.): The End Is Nigh )
  • The Unfathomable Sisterhood of Ick (in: Tor.com, June 16, 2014 )
  • Palm Strike's Last Case (in: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2014 )
  • Rock Manning Can't Hear You (2014, in: John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Eds.): The End Is Now )
  • The Day It All Ended (2014, in: Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer (Eds.): Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future )
  • As Good As New (in: Tor.com, September 10, 2014 )
  • The Last Movie Ever Made (2015, in: John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Eds.): The End Has Come )
  • Ghost Champagne (in: Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2015 )
  • Rat Catcher's Yellows (2015, in: Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams (Eds.): Press Start to Play )
  • I've Got the Music In Me (2015, in: Dave Maass (Ed.): Pwning Tomorrow: An Anthology of Short Fiction from the Electronic Frontier )
  • Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy (2016, in: Jonathan Strahan (Ed.): Drowned Worlds )
  • The Super Ultra Duchess of Fedora Forest (2016, in: Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Eds.): The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales )
  • Rager in Space (2016, in: Jonathan Strahan (Ed.): Bridging Infinity )
  • Stochastic Fancy (in: Wired, January 2017 )
  • Margot and Rosalind (in: Tor.com, March 8, 2017 )
  • A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime (2017, in: John Joseph Adams (Ed.): Cosmic Powers )
  • Trapped in the bathroom! (2017, in: Seat 14C )
  • Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue (2017, in: Junot Díaz (Ed.): Global Dystopias )
  • Cake Baby (A Kango and Sharon Adventure) (in: Lightspeed, November 2017 )
  • Excerpt from All the Birds in the Sky (in: Jane Yolen (Ed.): Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 )
  • The Bookstore at the End of America (2019, in: Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams (Eds.): A People's Future of the United States )
  • The Minnesota Diet (2019, in: Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andres Martinez and Juliet Ulman (eds.): Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow )
Non-fiction
  • The Lazy Crossdresser (2002)
as editor
  • She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff (2006, with Annalee Newitz)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See A pop culture magazine for freaks and 'new outcasts' / Other journal is pro-rant, pro-loopy and pro-anarchy , article by Rona Marech in the online edition of the San Francisco Chronicle of August 31, 2004 on December 2, 2018. Anders and Newitz are described here as both 35 years old.
  2. ↑ Charlie Jane Anders: The State of SF in SF , article by Michael Berry in SF Weekly, January 27, 2016, accessed November 27, 2018.
  3. ↑ How My Special Ed Teacher Turned Me Into A Lifelong Writer , article by Anders on BuzzFeed of March 31, 2016, accessed on November 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ Francesca Myman: Charlie Jane Anders: Whimsy Death Match. Interview in Locus # 660 (January 2016), excerpts online .
  5. ^ A pop culture magazine for freaks and 'new outcasts' / Other journal is pro-rant, pro-loopy and pro-anarchy , article by Rona Marech in the online edition of the San Francisco Chronicle of August 31, 2004, accessed on August 2, 2004 December 2018.
  6. ^ Other - Back Issues ( Memento from August 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Keeping SF safe for subversives at Writers With Drinks , posted by James Maguire in the San Francisco Chronicle, December 4, 2014, accessed November 27, 2018.
  8. ↑ Welcome to the Future Initiative , blog post by Annalee Newitz from January 15, 2015, accessed on November 26, 2018.
  9. ↑ io9 What Founded on the Idea That Science Fiction Belongs to Everyone . Article by Anders on April 29, 2016, accessed on November 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Different, Charlie Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Different, Charlie; Anders, Charles; Flurbert, Gustav (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Connecticut