"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 e...
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It has been said that somewhere in the world you have an exact double. Based loosely on a true incident which happened to L. Ron Hubbard, this et-ride of a novel ignites with the sudden welcoming cry Ai Pedrito , as Naval Lieutenant Tom Smith discovers that his exact look alike is the notorious revolutionary and spy, Pedrito Miraflores....
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For time out of mind, bloodthirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to scattered remnants dependent on half-forgotten magics to protect them. Then two heroes arose--men as close as brothers, yet divided by bitter betrayal. Arlen Bales became known as the Warded Man, tattooed head to toe with powerful magic symbols that enable him to fight demons in hand-to-hand combat--and emerge victorious. Jardir, armed with ma...
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Frank Poole was killed by the runaway space pod, then set adrift by Dave Bowman just before Bowman made his hazardous reentry into the Discovery to disconnect the psychotic computer, Hal. Now, a thousand years later, Bowman's frozen body has been restored to life by a civilization beyond the wildest fantasies of the past. He will disco...
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Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has not been entirely without incident.

Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward through time. He has been blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released, and colorfully insulted more than is strictly necessary. And of course Arthur Dent has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life, the universe, ...
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Jak Rebo is one such runner, whose current job is to deliver a future religious leader to his people, while avoiding assassins. If that s not enough, he gets involved with a very beautiful woman who holds the secret to instantaneous travel between star systems a secret that some would kill for.

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