The Cartography of Sudden Death: A Tor.Com Original

Charlie Jane Anders

Jan 2014 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

Time travel doesn't actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex....


At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Ratings and reviews

Neat storyline in just 32 pages. A bit confusing, but I feel like that came from a compelling story being built in such a small number of pages. Ending was abrupt without much being answered. Feels like a prologue to another book, not a self sealed short story.

About the author

Charlie Jane Anders is an American journalist, editor, and fiction writer. Her novel Choir Boy (Soft Skull, 2005) won a Lambda Literary Award in 2005, and her Tor.com story "Six Months, Three Days" won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

Her journalism and other writing has appeared in, among other venues, Salon, the Bay Guardian, the New York Press, Mother Jones, McSweeney's, and the Wall Street Journal. With Annalee Newitz, she edited the anthology She's Such a Geek: Women Write about Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff (Seal Press, 2006). She lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where she is the managing editor of the science fiction website io9.