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The City in the Middle of the Night

By Charlie Jane Anders
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Winner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel and finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award, The City in the Middle of the Night is set on January, a dying planet split between unending darkness and blazing sunlight. Humanity survives in two ancient cities located in a narrow habitable twilight zone. Sophie, a student turned reluctant revolutionary, is exiled into the perilous night and presumed dead. Rescued by mysterious creatures of the ice, she vows to remain hidden and heal, but her journey and the unexpected companions she gathers will alter their world forever.
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Winner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel

Finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel

The City in the Middle of the Night unfolds on January, a dying planet divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk. But life inside the cities is just as dangerous as the wastelands outside.

Sophie, a student and reluctant revolutionary, is supposed to be dead, after being exiled into the night. Saved only by forming an unusual bond with the enigmatic beasts who roam the ice, Sophie vows to stay hidden from the world, hoping she can heal. But fate has other plans—Sophie's ensuing odyssey and the ragtag family she finds will change the entire world.

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ISBN: 9781789093568

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 March 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Titan Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 496

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About the Author

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (August 2025). Her other novels include All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night and the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy. She's also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes, and Never Say You Can't Survive, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade/Shela Sexton, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running New Mutants comic. And she's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

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