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Charlie Jane Anders

American science fiction author and commentator (born 1969)

Charlie Jane Anders (born July 24, 1969) is an American writer specializing in speculative fiction. She has written several novels as well as shorter fiction, published in magazines and on websites, and hosted podcasts; these works cater to both adults and adolescent readers. Her first science fantasy novels, such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night, cover mature topics, received critical acclaim, and won major literary awards like the Nebula Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Her young adult trilogy Unstoppable has been popular among younger audiences. Shorter fiction has been collected into Six Months, Three Days, Five Others and Even Greater Mistakes.

In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award.^[1] Her 2011 novelette "Six Months, Three Days" won the 2012 Hugo Award^[2] and was a finalist for the Nebula Award and Theodor

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How did “Love Might Be Too Strong A Word” start for you?

Like many good things, it began at WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention in Madison, WI. I had a lot of really intense conversations about the ways in which different science fiction and fantasy stories radically transformed gender roles. If you’ve ever been at WisCon, you know that really powerful conversations take place there, which can go on until three in the morning sometimes. Somewhere during one of those conversations, I hatched the idea of a society where gender roles were inextricably linked to division of labor. I wound up writing pretty much the entire first draft on the plane ride (and long layover) going home from Madison.

There’re a lot of new terms for personal pronouns, sexual activities, and slang that you’ve created. Can you tell us a bit more about why you chose to use new pronouns and terminology?

I spent a lot of time sitting in the Chicago airport, waiting to change planes, coming up with the details of this society. A few things became clear pretty quickly: Wit

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Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders is an author, podcaster, and commentator.

Her works include "The City in the Middle of the Night" and "All the Birds in the Sky," the latter of which won the Nebula, Crawford, and Locus awards, and "Choir Boy," which won a Lambda Literary Award. Other works by Anders include "Rock Manning Goes For Broke" and a short story collection called "Six Months, Three Days, Five Others," the latter of which won a Hugo Award. Her story "Don't Press Charges And I Won't Sue" won a Theodore Sturgeon Award.

Her short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Boston Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Wired Magazine, Slate, Asimov's Science Fiction, Lightspeed, ZYZZYVA, Catamaran Literary Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and tons of anthologies.

Anders also organizes the monthly Writers With Drinks reading series, and co-hosts the podcast "Our Opinions Are Correct" with her partner, journalist Annalee Newitz. "Our Opinions Are Correct" won the 2019 Hugo Best Fancast Award.

Anders was the founder and co-editor, wi