THE BIRDS WHO WANTED TO SING

THE BIRDS WHO WANTED TO SING

Magic vs technology, just before the world is destroyed

In a humanity that is very close to destruction, magic and science are the ones that will play the most decisive role. Two teenagers, Patricia with her magical abilities and Lawrence with his appeal to technology, bond in a strong friendship even though they are despised by their classmates due to their paradoxical characteristics.

In their adult life, Patricia is a member of a witches' academy and at the same time heals people mentally and physically with the – often insatiable – use of her powers. Lawrence is working hard in a laboratory to build an intergalactic travel machine in order to save people from the impending destruction of the planet. The two childhood friends join forces again, but over the years their relationship will be tested in all possible and unlikely fields.

Is the magical union of fantasy and reality enough for an entire society and an entire world that is teetering on its way to destruction?

THE BIRDS WHO WANTED TO SING

H Charlie Jane Anders masterfully combines fantasy with sci-fi in a special fusion, enlisting two young outcasts and placing their newly created story of love and friendship in a setting of global havoc and destruction. The author, in addition to an ode to diversity, also signs a postmodern saga, simultaneously approaching with unrestrained sensitivity questions of morality and responsibility that unfold in the pages of the multi-awarded book.

The Birds Who Wanted to Sing has been awarded with the awards Nebula, Locus, Crawford.

Author Biography:

THE Charlie Jane Anders she is the author of the books "The birds that wanted to sing", "The city in the middle of the night", "Victory more important than death" etc. She has won, among others, the Emperor Norton, Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Crawford and Lambda literary awards (for her contribution to the LGBT community). Her short stories and articles have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and the magazines Wired, Lightspeed, MIT Technology Review, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, etc. She really likes karaoke and spicy tastes. She hugs trees for good luck and when working on a story she tends to talk to herself a lot.