NYCC 2021 | Space Odysseys: A Chat with Charlie Jane Anders and Tochi Onyebuchi

CHARLIE JANE ANDERS is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com the popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. Her debut novel All the Birds in the Sky won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and was a Hugo Award finalist. Before that her story "Six Months Three Days " won the Hugo Award. She has also had fiction published by McSweeney's Lightspeed and ZYZZYVA. Her journalism has appeared in Salon the Wall Street Journal Mother Jones and many other outlets. Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African its sequel Crown of Thunder and War Girls. His novella Riot Baby a finalist for the Hugo the Nebula the Locus the Ignyte and the NAACP Image Awards won the New England Book Award for Fiction and an ALA Alex Award. He holds a B.A. from Yale a M.F.A. in screenwriting from the Tisch School for the Arts a Master's degree in droit économique from Sciences Po and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. His fiction has appeared in Panverse Three Asimov’s Science Fiction Obsidian Omenana Magazine Uncanny and Lightspeed. His non-fiction has appeared in Tor.com Nowhere Magazine the Oxford University Press blog and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy among other places.