Six Months Three Days Five Others A master absurdistHighly recommended The New York TimesBefore 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 fict
A master absurdistHighly recommended The New York TimesBefore 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, alie A master absurdistHighly recommended The New York TimesBefore 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 any 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.
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Charlie Jane Anders
I m probably the only person to have become a fictional character in a Star Trek novel and in one of Armistead Maupin s Tales of the City books.I m the editor of io9, where I m probably best known for my reviews of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen and The Last Airbender Or for my Game of Thrones recaps Or for my writing advice columns Or my in depth investigation of people who claim HIV doesn t cause AIDS Or my geeky articles about topics like the search for a cure for cancer, or how Leonard Nimoy changed everything, or how the TV show Star Blazers helped me deal with being bullied Or just generally being an obnoxious blow hard.I won the Emperor Norton Award, for extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason I have published a ton of short fiction way over 100 short stories at this point I ve stopped counting My stories have appeared in Tor, Lightspeed Magazine, McSweeney s Internet Tendency, The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction, Asimov s Science Fiction Magazine, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies One year, I was in one of the Year s Best SF anthologies and in Best Lesbian Erotica at the same time My novelette Six Months, Three Days won a Hugo Award and was shortlisted for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon awards My novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Edmund White Award.I organize Writers With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres Every month, I make up weird fictional bios for the readers and performers, and nobody s sued yet Readers performers at Writers With Drinks have included the aforementioned Armistead Maupin, plus Mary Gaitskill, Amy Tan, Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, Dorothy Allison, W Kamau Bell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Ruth Ozeki, Ishmael Reed, Karen Joy Fowler, Maureen McHugh and just countless others The SF Chronicle did a really nice article about Writers With Drinks.Back in 2007, Annalee Newitz and I put out a book of first person stories by female geeks called She s Such a Geek Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine called other, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don t fit into other categories To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight which is just what it sounds like and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut.I used to live in a Buddhist nunnery, when I was a teenager I love to do karaoke I eat way too much spicy food I hug trees at pat stone lions for luck I talk to myself way too much when I m working on a story.