Six Months, Three Days, Five Others
Before the success of her debut SF-and-fantasy novel All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders was a rising star in SF and fantasy short fiction. Collected in a mini-book format, here — for the first time in print — are six of her quirky, wry, engaging best:
In -The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model, — aliens reveal the terrible truth about how humans were created — and why we'll never discover aliens.
-As Good as New- is a brilliant twist on the tale of three wishes, set after the end of the world.
-Intestate- is about a family reunion in which some attendees aren't quite human anymore — but they're still family.
-The Cartography of Sudden Death- demonstrates that when you try to solve a problem with time travel, you now have two problems.
-Six Months, Three Days- is the story of the love affair between a man who can see the one true foreordained future, and a woman who can see all the possible futures. They're both right, and the story won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
And -Clover, — exclusively written for this collection, is a coda to All the Birds in the Sky, answering the burning question of what happened to Patricia's cat.
- Author
- Charlie Jane Anders, Yuko Shimizu
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 188
- Publisher
- Tordotcom
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780765394897
- Genres
- fantasy, fiction, anthologies, queer
- Release date
- 2017
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