 Anders was the founder and co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of the science fiction blog "io9", a position she left in April 2016 to focus on novel writing.A television adaptation of Anders' "Six Months, Three Days" was being prepared for NBC in 2013, with the script written by Eric Garcia.In 2014, Tor Books acquired two novels from Anders, "All the Birds in the Sky" (2016) and "The City In the Middle of the Night" (2019).