The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model: A Tor.Com Original

Charlie Jane Anders

Feb 2011 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

A humorous, sci-fi tale from the award-winning author of All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders's "The Fermi Paradox," a Tor.com Original

Jon and Toku travel the universe suspended in Interdream, only waking up to check up on certain business ventures. Simple. Until one of the business ventures, something called "Earth," objects.

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Ratings and reviews

A very amusing little story about what happens when a civilization that"everybody knows" died off didn't. Earthlings never do the expected thing; the rest of the universe needs to be prepared.

Great story, but way too short. I really want to know what happens next now!

Can't believe I paid for this, it could have been written on a post-it.

About the author

Charlie Jane Anders is an American journalist, editor, and fiction writer. Her science fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, in Rudy Rucker's webzine Flurb, and in Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009. Her novel Choir Boy (Soft Skull, 2005) won a Lambda Literary Award in 2005. 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.