All The Birds In The Sky Av Charlie Jane Anders

All the Birds In the Sky An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go to war in order to prevent the world from tearing itself. To further complicate things, each of the groups' most promising followers (Patricia, a brilliant witch WINNER OF BEST NOVEL IN 2016 NEBULA AWARDSWINNER OF BEST FANTASY NOVEL IN 2017 LOCUS AWARDSFINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL IN THE 2017 HUGO AWARDSTIME MAGAZINE BEST 100 FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME Patricia is a witch who can communicate with animals. Laurence is a mad scientist and inventor of the two-second time machine. As teenagers they gravitate towards one another, sharing in the horrors of growing up weird, but their lives take different paths...When they meet again as adults, Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world and live up to his reputation in near-future San Francisco. Meanwhile, Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the magically gifted, working hard to prove herself to her fellow magicians and secretly repair the earth's ever growing ailments.As they attempt to save our future, Laurence and Patricia's shared past pulls them back together. And though they come from different worlds, when they collide, the witch and the scientist will discover that maybe they understand each other better than anyone.