To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden and illustrated by Sam Weber. Originally published in 2011, “Six Months, Three Days” was a finalist for the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2012.
This story is included in our special anniversary bundle, Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition, available to newsletter subscribers for a limited time.
Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, branching out from each moment like infinite trees. Doug can also see the future, but for him, it’s a single, locked-in, inexorable sequence of foreordained events. They can’t both be right, but over and over again, they are.
Obviously, these are the last two people in the world who should date. So, naturally, they do.
“Six Months, Three Days” also appears in the Locus Award-winning collection, Even Greater Mistakes, available now in trade paperback.
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