Name: Astha Prakash's review of Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders
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Author: Astha Prakash

Charlie Jane Anders

"A master absurdist...Highly recommended." —The New York Times 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.

Six Months, Three Days, Five Others

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Astha Prakash

This is a weird book. Good weird. The stories are dark, surreal and dystopian, but somehow Anders makes them comical, bizarre, and almost silly. One doesn't get to see that very often. I especially enjoyed reading 'Six Months, Three Days', 'As Good As New' and 'The Fermi Paradox.'

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