Name: All the Birds in the Sky
Rating: 3.59 (48617 reviews)
Author: Charlie Jane Anders

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All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders January 26, 2016

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Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San Francisco, where Laurence is an engineering genius and Patricia works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world’s ever growing ailments. But something is determined to bring them back together—to either save the world, or end it.

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