January Fifteenth

Rachel Swirsky

Tor Publishing Group, Jun 14, 2022 - Fiction - 144 pages

“One of the best speculative writers of the last decade.”—John Scalzi

A Philip K. Dick Award nominee!

January Fifteenth—the day all Americans receive their annual Universal Basic Income payment.

For Hannah, a middle-aged mother, today is the anniversary of the day she took her two children and fled her abusive ex-wife.

For Janelle, a young, broke journalist, today is another mind-numbing day interviewing passersby about the very policy she once opposed.

For Olivia, a wealthy college freshman, today is “Waste Day”, when rich kids across the country compete to see who can most obscenely squander the government’s money.

For Sarah, a pregnant teen, today is the day she’ll journey alongside her sister-wives to pick up the payments that undergird their community—and perhaps embark on a new journey altogether.

In this near-future science fiction novella by Nebula Award-winning author Rachel Swirsky, the fifteenth of January is another day of the status quo, and another chance at making lasting change.

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What people are saying

January Fifteenth

User Review  - Publishers Weekly

Nebula Award winner Swirsky (Throughout the Drowsy Dark) half-steps out of her usual short story milieu with a thoughtful novel comprising four interwoven stories framed by the near-future ...

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - JesseTheK - LibraryThing

Didactic, transforms thought experiments into characters. Excellee conversation starter

About the author

Rachel Swirsky received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and has been nominated for the Hugo, Locus and World Fantasy Awards, and twice won the Nebula Award. She recently moved to Portland, Oregon where she is currently in love with the rain (though aware she might not be later). Her books include Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse) and A Memory of Wind.

Bibliographic information

• Title: January Fifteenth
• Author: Rachel Swirsky
• Publisher: Tor Publishing Group, 2022
• ISBN: 1250198933, 9781250198938
• Length: 144 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk