Nicky Shields
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Charlie Jane Anders:
When did you write All the Birds in the Sky? The parts where you predict this near future seems like it may have been written a long time ago. It seemed like The Caddy would just be a phone app, and the projects Laurence was working on (like an Open Source Operating System) are dated. Or what happened to Linux in the future? And who's impressed by a 19" monitor? Was it written a long time ago? Asking for a friend!
Charlie Jane Anders
I started writing All the Birds in 2011, but even in 2016 when it was published I felt like it was pretty accurate to the tech nerds I knew. I apologize if I got the size of an impressive monitor wrong, that's my bad. I'm kind of spatially challenged. I still know nerds who are excited about Linux though, and the new TV show Upload has a whole open-source storyline. I don't think the Caddy could just be a phone app, and I get people all the time saying to me that they wish the Caddies existed in real life. Our phones mostly do the opposite of what the Caddy does: they make it harder for us to connect with each other in the flesh-and-blood world.
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Rebecca Eisenberg
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Charlie Jane Anders:
I just finished _Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak_ (on Kindle and Audible) and I thought it was wonderful. But this can't possibly be the final book in the series, is it? Possibly I misread when I first thought I read this series as a duology. I hope it is at least a trilogy -- I am hungry for more about this awesome friend family! Thanks for your fabulous ouvre of creative and inclusive books - I love your work!
Ashleigh Mitchell
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Charlie Jane Anders:
Would you please explain "eat way too much spicy food."? I have never heard of such a thing! :D
Jody Berland
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Charlie Jane Anders:
Never too late. I submitted a draft that talks about where Patricia first meets the bird, the question the Tree puts to her, which I cannot reveal of course, nor the answer.... I'm looking to do a book on birds in various sites. Or maybe not. Did you know there was a Persian Conference of the Birds? 12th century. There was a musical staged last month in Vancouver. Haven't read or seen it. Thank you!!
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