Six Months, Three Days, Five Others

Tordotcom, 2017. Hardcover. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. "A master absurdist...Highly recommended." -The New York Times Before the success of her debut SF-and-fantasy novel All the Birds in the S ky, 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 o f her quirky, wry, engaging best: In "The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model," aliens reveal the terrible tr uth 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 afte r 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 p ossible 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.