Books › Six months, three days, five others › Books like it
If you loved
Books like Six months, three days, five others
A wry, offbeat collection of speculative tales that uses the bizarre to illuminate the deeply human. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Six months, three days, five others.
- imaginative
- offbeat
- thoughtful
- warm
- 01
The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders
A haunting exploration of radical empathy and toxic devotion set against the harsh extremes of a tidally locked world.
- 02
A People's Future of the United States
Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah and others
A defiant, electrifying collection of speculative visions that dares to imagine marginalized communities surviving, resisting, and thriving in the face of systemic collapse.
- 03
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Becky Chambers
A warm, character-driven pause in the stars that feels like sharing a hot drink with strangers while a storm rages outside.
- 04
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Becky Chambers
A warm, quiet slice-of-life journey through the everyday lives of people finding their place in a vast, changing universe.
- 05
Wireless
Charles Stross · 2009
A dizzying, high-velocity plunge into alternate histories, post-human futures, and bureaucratic cosmic horror.
- 06
The Future of Another Timeline
Annalee Newitz
A fierce, punk-rock time-travel thriller fueled by female rage and the urgent fight for a better future.
- 07
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
A collection of mind-bending thought experiments that quietly break your heart while expanding your understanding of the universe.
- 08
Beyond the rift
Peter Watts
A gorgeously saturnine collection of edgy science fiction that blurs the line between the known and the alien.
- 09
Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 10
Pump Six and Other Stories
Paolo Bacigalupi
A visceral, dirt-under-the-fingernails plunge into broken futures where humanity has engineered its own obsolescence.
- 11
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North
A sweeping, time-looping cat-and-mouse thriller that wrestles with the crushing weight of infinity and the fierce bonds of rivalry.
- 12
The Accidental Time Machine
Joe Haldeman
A wry, fast-paced temporal road trip where the only way out of a problem is to jump further into an increasingly bizarre future.
