Who wrote The City in the Middle of the Night?

Charlie Jane Anders wrote The City in the Middle of the Night, first published in 2019. It is a work of science fiction and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

Is there a book club guide for The City in the Middle of the Night?

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Essential Read

The City in the Middle of the Night

Name: The City in the Middle of the Night
Author: Charlie Jane Anders

by Charlie Jane Anders · 2019

Science Fiction · ranked #20 in category

Reviewed by the Book Verdict editorial team

Winner · The Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 2020

On a tidally locked planet where one side burns and the other freezes, two cities cling to survival in the narrow habitable zone — and a young woman exiled from one of them encounters the planet's indigenous, possibly sentient inhabitants. Anders's Locus Award-finalist novel is about colonialism, communication across genuinely alien difference, and what survival costs a society over generations.

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The verdict

Category: Science Fiction
First published: 2019 · 2010s
Author: Charlie Jane Anders
Standing: Essential Read

About Science Fiction

Science fiction is the literature of ideas — asking what human life looks like when technology, time or the laws of physics shift. At its best it uses speculation to say something precise and true about the present.