All the Birds in the Sky is a 2016 science fantasy novel by American writer and editor Charlie Jane Anders.

Laurence, from a young age, invents gadgets, makes a two-second time machine out of a watch, and later builds a supercomputer in his bedroom.

All of this happens against the backdrop of a deteriorating world, which is beset by superstorms, earthquakes, and wars that destroy cities and destabilize countries.

[6] Anders cited Cory Doctorow's Little Brother (2008) and Jo Walton's Among Others (2011) as inspiration for the Patricia and Laurence coming of age sections of the novel.

[9] He added that Anders is "an important new voice in genre fiction", and that this book "marks a brave, genre-bending debut that, as satisfying as it is, perhaps hints at even more greatness to come.

"[9] Michael Berry wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that Anders' mix of science fiction and fantasy with a coming-of-age story should satisfy readers of each of these genres.

He said the novel is "clearly something special" that "walks the line between quirky and the cutesy", but is level-headed enough to compensate for the "whimsical aspects" of the story.

[10] In a review in the New York Journal of Books, novelist and editor Samantha Holloway called the novel "such a neat book" in the way it can be simultaneously "terrible and dangerous" and "beautiful and charming"; the way it tackles "heavy themes" like fate, free will and ecological disaster, yet appears to be "dancing with them [rather] than wrestling"; and the way it simply does not "tak[e] itself too seriously".

[12] The first part is "an absolutely terrific YA novel", achieved by "masterful, wacky, and sometimes hilarious control of tone"; later it "gets a bit wobbly from time to time" as the story moves from "fixing a relationship to fixing the world", but at this point "Anders has pretty much sold us on the sheer likeability of her flawed characters".

[12] Writing on the British Fantasy Society website, Richard Webb found the book's plot generally "well-paced and compelling", and commended the "beautiful imagery" in Anders' prose.

[13] Webb felt that Patricia and Laurence's relationship "played out against the well-worn 'doomed love' of their diametrically-opposed schooling", and that their reunion appeared to be a "plot contrivance" that had "a sense of inevitability to it".

[14] The book was translated into German by Sophie Zeitz and published in Germany as Alle Vögel unter dem Himmel by Fischer Tor in April 2017.