Even Greater Mistakes: Stories

Even Greater Mistakes: Stories

Charlie Jane Anders

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In her short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders upends genre cliches and revitalizes classic tropes with heartfelt and pants-wettingly funny social commentary.The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future.A wildly popular slapstick filmmaker is drawn, against his better judgment, into working with a fascist militia, against a background of social collapse. Two friends must embark on an Epic Quest To Capture The Weapon That Threatens The Galaxy, or else they’ll never achieve their dream of opening a restaurant. The stories in this collection, by their very outrageousness, achieve a heightened realism unlike any other. Anders once again proves she is one of the strongest voices in modern science fiction, the writer called by Andrew Sean Greer, “this generation’s Le Guin.”


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    Even Greater Mistakes collects an assortment of mostly SFF short stories by the talented Charlie Jane Anders. While not every story was a hit for me, the collection is, on the whole, a solid winner, showcasing Anders's gift for sharp, inventive ideas and plots. There's a lot going on here, and the collection is jampacked with clever conceits, but always with an eye toward character - people, in all their glory, not just ideas.

    A great introduction to a significant voice in contemporary science fiction.

    Thank you to NetGalley and Tor Books for the advance review copy!

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