I thought I was pretty imaginative until I read this book. Charlie Jane Anders is way out in another league, and I'm just glad I get to live in the same world, so I can read her work.Her novel, All The Birds In The Sky, is on my 2018 "shelf" here in GoodReads, but I was in the Worthington Public Library looking for Andre Aciman's Call Me By Your Name (all copies out at the moment), and this was on the shelf, so I thought, "Why not," and I'm so glad I did.Now I wonder what I will find when I go l...

I fell in love with Anders' writing with her first novel and snapped this little collection up as soon as it was published. I wanted it so much, in fact, that Amazon mistakenly sent two copies and I gave the extra to my son. It's every bit as quirky and charming as All the Birds in the Sky but, well, short. I'm not reporting any plots because discovering a Charlie Jane Anders story is too much fun. There, that's my review. Buy this book and read it.

This is a phenomenal speculative short fiction collection.The standout was definitely the titular "Six Months, Three Days." It was a fascinating concept--a couple, where one person can see one future and the other can see multiple futures. Anders excels when it comes to concepts. Her stories feel fresh and are wildly inventive. They also retain a sense of hope, and a sense of silliness. Her work often reminds me of the Catherynne M Valente quote from Space Opera, "Life is beautiful and life is s...

I stumbled on All the Birds in the Sky signed in Volumes book café in Chicago accompanied by stickers and a recommendation with no clue of who Charlie Jane Anders was. But it wasn’t long before her debut had swept me away into her twisty SF/F world and voice, and it was one of my favorite releases of 2016. So I was thrilled to receive a copy of Six Months, Three Days, Five Others from Tor.com in exchange for an honest review.Anders’s priorities are usually solidly balanced between world-building...

I’m honestly not really a fan of short stories or short fiction in general and although the name sounded familiar I really had no idea who Charlie Jane Anders was before this book arrived on my doorstep. So I was a little bit hesitant to start reading it and didn’t really set my expectations all that high or expect to really enjoy it. Boy, what a fool I was — I sat down and read all 6 of the amazing short stories in Six Months, Three Days, Five Others in just a few hours and loved every single o...

Trying really hard not to cry right now. This collection of short stories is AMAZING. One story was four stars, the rest five, so 5 stars this is. I am SO GLAD that I was able to pick this up and meet the author at NYCC yesterday. I’m so excited to pick up the books of hers that I also have waiting for me!Only neg? Many of the stories feel like part of a larger story. They end, they aren’t cliff hangers, BUT the reader gets the feeling that there is more to the stories and you want to know more,...

Charlie Jane Anders is one of my new favorite authors! She’s been writing short stories for years, and this is a new collection. She does something more with her stories, and this collection of six stories presents life lessons on love, death, family, wishing, and friendship. Plus, I finally got to see what happened to Patricia’s cat (from All the Birds in the Sky)! I chose this book as the February Book of the Month on my podcast and gave it a full review there. Check it out: https://soundcloud...

Considering there are multiple stories in this book, I figured I’d “review” them separately.The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model: Well Ferb, I know what we’re going to do today. Today we’re going to kill god.As Good As New: The fate of the world is in the hands a the writer. Or, in the hands of the critic.Interstate: Raincheck Ferb, today we’re going to kill my dad. And after, will cut him up and sell his body parts on the black market.The Cartography of Sudden Death: As a surprise to no one,...

These are so fun - Aimee Bender syntax with Lev Grossmann and Cory Doctorow content, except twisted about 90 degrees out of phase in terms of humor. With real, complex emotions attached - Six Months Three Days is everything I can remember loving/hating about relationships, Cartography investigates grief through time travel, As Good As It Gets confronts alienation, Clover (a beautiful interstitial for All the Birds In the Sky) is just... lovely and loving and oh, cats.Really glad I picked up the

My absolute favorite new author! She is everything you could want - creative, fresh and modern, irreverant, gutteral, funny, and absurd. I loved everything about this book of short stories - except I skipped the last story in the book because it is a follow-up to her other novel, All the Birds in the Sky, and I didn't want to ruin that book, because of course now I am going to devour everything she has ever written.

I really enjoyed this little book of short stories. It’s hard to pick a favorite. At times I felt like I was reading Black Mirror novellas. I’m definitely going to check out her other stuff. I also appreciated that every story was different. Even though the stories were short, the characters were well developed.

Wow. Just. Wow. So much humanity and awesomeness in each of these stories.

Charlie Jane Anders is secure in her place as one of my favorite authors.

Charlie Jane Anders' Six Months, Three Days, Five Others is not a long book, nor a difficult one. I burned through this one in a couple of hours on a lazy Sunday, in fact. Sometimes, though, that's what exactly you want—a short, sharp collection of confections.The similar prose styles also made this book a good companion piece with Naomi Kritzer's Cat Pictures Please, which I'd read just before.Anders' ingenious title (she's really good at titles) doesn't lie, either—there are just a half-dozen

Between her novels and her Writers with Drinks intros, I think of Charlie Jane as a master of the fantastic absurd. But these stories are a great reminder that she can modulate the absurdity at will to devastating effect.Each is the six stories (I'm still not over how clever the title is) starts from its own wild premise, from a genie in a bottle after an apocalypse to a time traveler mapping the connections between significant deaths. The stories grow from there, becoming so much more at the sa...

Six Months, Three Days, Five Others may only have six short stories, but they are mighty good stories. The stories in this collection are fun, they're inventive and creative, each adding a new spin on a familiar idea or introducing a new idea altogether. And though each of these SFF stories presents vastly different words and ideas, they're never difficult to read. The world-building is smooth and I didn't struggle to understand the six different realities in the short time I had with them—a pro...

5 Second Review of Six Months, Three Days, Five Others.The Good: They call this "absurdism" and it may be my favorite genre. The stories reminded me of Aimee Bender's, and she's my favorite. But at the same time, I couldn't see Bender writing these specific stories, they're unique to Anders. I want to read her novel now.The Bad: --The Mediocre: The first, second, fifth, and sixth stories were my favorite. Which means, I didn't love stories three and four quite as much. I think if someone handed