The City in the Middle of the Night

By Charlie Jane Anders

Book Overview

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST

Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night.

WOULD YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING TO CHANGE THE WORLD?

Humanity clings to life on January--a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.

Two cities, built long ago in the meager temperate zone, serve as the last bastions of civilization--but life inside them is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside.

Sophie, a young student from the wrong side of Xiosphant city, is exiled into the dark after being part of a failed revolution. But she survives--with the help of a mysterious savior from beneath the ice.

Burdened with a dangerous, painful secret, Sophie and her ragtag group of exiles face the ultimate challenge--and they are running out of time.

WELCOME TO THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

Like a classic from another timeline... this book has notes of Ursula K. Le Guin and Phillip Pullman. --Robin Sloan, author of Sourdough

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076537997X
• ISBN13: 9780765379979
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Disappointing Execution

It's an incredible concept. It had the potential for great world-building, yet it's all squandered with poor writing and silly characters. I wanted so much more out of this. The story is more focused on the people who act like naive teenagers driven by unnatural attachments and motivations. Almost no solid scientific thought was invested. I couldn't even reach the end before I had to put it down... I rarely stop reading a book once I've committed to it, but I found it to be such a disappointment I don't think I'll read anything by this author again. Makes me wonder why this person is published if they can't follow through on the actual story, beyond the general concept. Maybe it's just not for me...