Charlie Jane Anders Books in Order

Published as Charles Anders, this friendly guide offers practical help for people who want to explore crossdressing on their own terms. It covers clothes shopping, makeup, body hair, and confidence, with an affirming no-rules spirit.

Berry is a gifted thirteen-year-old choirboy who cannot bear the thought of losing his treble voice. His attempts to stop puberty push him into a painful, searching story about gender, desire, and growing into a self he can live with.

Co-edited with Annalee Newitz, this anthology gathers essays by women about science, technology, gaming, fandom, and geek identity. It is personal, funny, argumentative, and still sharp about who gets welcomed into nerd culture.

A themed anthology of erotic stories about control, restraint, and fantasy. This is a collaborative volume rather than a standalone Anders novel, built around playful, explicit takes on bondage.

Two aliens expect Earth to be another dead civilization ready for harvesting. Instead they find human survivors, and their cold business model suddenly looks a lot less safe in this sly, darkly funny first-contact story.

Doug sees one fixed future, Judy sees countless possible ones, and both know their romance is doomed. Anders turns that setup into a sharp love story about fate, free will, and why people leap anyway.

The narrator's father has become so altered by technology that he is barely recognizable as human. This short story uses a family gathering and an approaching death to ask what inheritance, obligation, and kinship really mean.

Set after the end of the world, this short piece puts a fresh spin on the old three wishes setup. What looks like a miracle starts to feel trickier, sadder, and stranger the closer you get.

A time traveler discovers that every attempt to fix history only creates new knots. It is a brisk, brainy story about unintended consequences, shifting timelines, and how hard it is to save people without breaking something else.

Patricia becomes a witch. Laurence grows into a brilliant engineer. When the two childhood outsiders reconnect as adults, their uneasy bond becomes tangled up with the fate of a world wobbling between magic and technology.

This coda to All the Birds in the Sky shifts to a troubled household of men and cats, then tips into the uncanny. When one remarkable feline asks for help, everyday relationship strain becomes something much stranger.

This six-story collection gathers some of Anders's best shorter work, including the Hugo-winning title piece. Time travel, alien capitalism, strange family histories, and postapocalyptic wishes all show up, but the emotional core is always human.

Rock Manning lives for slapstick films, even as a collapsing near-future America grows darker and more violent. When a fascist militia wants to use his fame, comedy turns into a sharp story about propaganda, trauma, and survival.

On the planet January, where one side is frozen dark and the other burns in endless sun, Sophie is exiled after a failed revolution. Survival pulls her into a stranger world, and into a fight over what civilization could become.

Alyssa, an ex-smuggler and reluctant revolutionary, heads into the darkness to become something new that might help humanity survive. Set after The City in the Middle of the Night, it mixes body transformation with real dread.

A bigger, wider-ranging story collection, this book jumps from psychics and space quests to fascism, breakups, and talking monsters. The fun comes from how Anders pairs wild premises with loneliness, humor, and queer tenderness.

Part writing guide, part pep talk, this book argues that making up stories can help people stay human during bad times. Anders mixes practical craft advice with honesty, humor, and a real sense of urgency.

Tina Mains has spent her life waiting for the alien rescue beacon in her chest to activate. When it finally does, she and her best friend Rachael are swept into a galactic war, and Tina learns destiny is messier than the stories promised.

Rachael, Elza, and Tina are all trying to become who the galaxy needs them to be, and none of it is simple. An alien artifact, palace intrigue, and a brutal mission pull the crew deeper into the war.

With Tina gone and the crew hunted across the galaxy, Rachael and Elza chase one last chance to stop catastrophe. The final book turns friendship, grief, and impossible choices into a fast, high-stakes finish.

Escapade joins a young New Mutants lineup for a clash with the mysterious Lethal Legion. Anders brings superhero chaos, found family energy, and coming-of-age messiness to a fast comic run.

Jamie, a grad student and witch, tries to teach her estranged mother how to do magic. At the same time, she digs into a mysterious 1749 novel, hoping its buried secrets can stop present-day chaos from getting worse.