Six Months, Three Days, Five Others. by Charlie Jane Anders. 2017
To be honest, you buy this short collection for the spectacular - and Hugo winning - novelette of the title. Then you hope the rest of the book is worth reading. Luckily, it is.
Very little to say here other than how easy it is to read Anders’ fiction. The opening story had me laughing out-loud for its wit and cleverness. Others were positivity emotional and heartbreaking. Even the stories reviewed as average were merely missing something.
I’d recommend this collection and look forward to reading more from Charlie Jane Anders.
Six Months, Three Days, Five Others is rated 83%.
4 good / 2 average / 0 poor.
How do I arrive at a rating?
The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model
Good. Two aliens have a real problem when they discover a civilization that hasn’t destroyed themselves.
As Good as New
Average. A woman who survived the apocalypse in a panic room discovers a genie in a bottle among the wreckage.
Intestate
Good. A really excellent story about a family that reconnect with their father on his birthday, but they can’t stop thinking about his bionic body-parts.
The Cartography of Sudden Death
Good. A young girl is captured into service to a wealthy woman, but quickly finds herself jumping through time to stay alive.
Six Months, Three Days
Great. The masterpiece of the collection. To quote the first line of the story… “The man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures.”
This story won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
Clover
Average. A m/m couple adopts two cats. One might have been a human once.
