Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders
Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders
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Even Greater Mistakes

Author: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrator: Luis Moreno, Jen Richards, Maria Liatis

Unabridged: 15 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/16/2021

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the only foreordained future. A wildly popular slapstick filmmaker is drawn, against his better judgment, into working with a fascist militia against a background of
social collapse. Two friends must embark on an Epic Quest To Capture The Weapon That Threatens The Galaxy, or else they’ll never achieve their dream of opening a restaurant. A trans woman is captured by an agency that brutally forces
detransition by means of brain transplants—only to discover that the person overseeing her case is her childhood friend. And in the liminal space between the warring fragments of what was once the United States, a mysterious bookstore is
the place where all the incompatible realities can touch.

Here are delightful upendings of genre clichés and heartfelt revitalizations of classic tropes. Here is social commentary with teeth, and here are scenes of pantswettingly funny comedy. Here are characters and situations that by their very
outrageousness achieve a heightened realism unlike any other. And here is one of the strongest voices in modern science fiction, the writer called by Andrew Sean Greer “this generation’s Le Guin.”

About Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy, along with the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, the Boston Review, Tor.com, Tin House, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, and other places. Her TED Talk, "Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" got 700,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista on June 08, 2021

Short stories are dangerous: tiny sparks of pure narrative fire that burn hotter because they snuff out sooner. Small, self-contained adventures gave me the freedom to fail — to push my limits, to experiment with styles and ideas that I wasn’t sure I could pull off. And fail I did, over and over.......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on August 22, 2021

I was actually rather impressed with a number of these short stories. The sheer creativity is highlighted and when the shorts work, they have some pretty brilliant world-view skewing and worldbuilding that is definitely off-center and enjoyable. I enjoyed most of these. There were, however, a few tha......more

Goodreads review by Tim on June 27, 2023

A collection of sci-fi short stories. It was a mixed bag for me. Some I loved, some were OK, and some I couldn't get into at all.......more

Goodreads review by Sunny on June 10, 2022

The good ones were incredibly good, the mid ones were incredibly mid......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on July 19, 2021

I like Anders writing. This is based originally upon reading a short story in a dystopian anthology about the future of the US about a peculiarly split bookstore (the penultimate entry in this collection) and then Anders’ novel The City in the Middle of the Night. So I was excited to try out her sho......more