“Irresistible and observant… Longtime fans and even newbies to the genre: Get ready for one zany ride … Whatever mood you’re going for, there’s a story in “Even Greater Mistakes” to match it. What also makes the collection so infectious and, frankly, cool are the edifying intros that accompany each story. Much in the same vein as her recently released writing how-to/memoir mash-up Never Say You Can’t Survive, these snippets provide valuable insight into Anders’ creative process and inspiration for each story, but they also highlight her screwball sense of humor and mad-scientist-style outlook on life.” — San Francisco Chronicle

“There are plenty of delights for Anders' fans and those new to her writing... An essential Anders treasury.” — Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

“Anders has wisely avoided the temptation to assemble a “greatest hits” album in favor of showing us the shape of her career as she views it. It’s a very interesting shape, more com­plex than might be expected by readers familiar only with her novels.” — Gary Wolfe, Locus Magazine

“The book's 19 stories... [show] Anders' skill in introspection, humor, and immersive storytelling... This fascinating, emotional collection is a welcome addition showcasing Anders' range and prose.” — Library Journal

“Anders can swerve from angrily political to gonzo comedy, and consistently, display a lot of heart and relatable human characters (even if those humans are engineered or cat-shaped or zombie vampires). … [in these stories], people are having uninhibited sex, making meaningful art, and trying to find where they belong in the world... I’d expect there would be something for most everyone.” — Mind Picker

“Readers will fall in love with its zany, dark weirdness... Anders is an author who finds an exciting, riotous joy in invention, and that passion breaks through into every story. … Stories touch on found family and queerness, on the ominous horrors of being pursued or policed, and on gentrification and finding the places where you belong, however weird they may be.” — Booklist (Starred Review)

“[A] powerful and emotional volume. Each tale immerses readers completely and effortlessly into the tense scenarios Anders imagines. The result is both rewarding and impressive.” — Publishers Weekly

“In Even Greater Mistakes, Anders enlivens bold conceits with verve and often dry wit.” — AV Club

“At turns funny, thought-provoking, and emotional, these stories depict the breadth of Anders’ imagination.” — Buzzfeed

“Even Greater Mistakes draws out the absurd in the mundane, painting entrancing portraits of contemporary life.” — Bustle

“Among Anders’s characters are trans girls, people suffering from dementia, a psychic couple, fairy werewolves, and more, all of which she writes with necessary care. The tone of the stories shifts from silly to serious to mournful in this great collection.” — BookRiot

“Even Greater Mistakes is an exquisite collection, an assemblage of outstanding short fiction. Anders is a gifted prose stylist… Challenging as they may be, these stories are a hell of a good time, propulsive and darkly funny.” — The Maine Edge

“Charlie Jane Anders has created an excellent spell-bounding anthology of short fiction in Even Greater Mistakes… This is a dazzling varied collection, and I loved all the stories” — Runalong The Shelves

“There is a brilliant variety in this collection told by a master short story author. It is vibrant and queer and wonderful but holds to concise storytelling… [This book] reminded me why she is one of my favorite storytellers.” — Before We Go Blog

“In her brilliant short-story collection Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders takes us into distant worlds, far futures, and near presents. There is humor, imagination, science, terror, and love — sometimes all in one story… Anders weaves trans, queer, and nonbinary lives throughout her science fiction.” — Shondaland

“[These stories take] a slantwise and clever look at climate, loneliness and relationships, identity, human foibles, and the vast possibilities that stretch out before us — the terrifying and the thrilling… Each story comes with fresh surprises but with her signature wit intact, and always with at least a hint of provocation.” — Book Reporter

“That looseness, that unpredictability, that touch of improv—these manifest as a rejection of established norms and traditional binaries… There’s a philosophy at work here, putting forward transformation as the sane response to inevitable change, that knows that totalitarianism has an elemental weakness to surreal acts and art, and one that has a keen understanding of how individuals define and find themselves with and without other people.” — Chicago Review of Books

“The myriad ways Anders explores the relationships we form, and stretch, and break, whether in an alternate present or a post-apocalyptic future, are heartbreaking, joyous, hopeful, terrifying, and often laugh-out-loud hilarious. The premises are clever, but the characters, and their journeys, are poignant — and help us to see ourselves, in our “normal” time and space, in a new light.” — Autostraddle

“Anders excels at revealing how various hidden mechanisms shape our lives and at showing us their artifice… But as Anders shows us, we have choices in how to deal with these rigged systems. We can always throw the whole lot in the bin.” — New Scientist

“It’s constantly weird and inventive and extremely queer and, like all good collections, it talks about alien sex and dorks discovering time travel.” — Lucas Olson, quoted in Huffington Post