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Spidersong
Travel to distant stars and magical kingdoms in this collection of thirty-one very short science fiction and fantasy tales.
These five-minute reads range between hilarious and heartbreaking. Meet feline space invaders, rogue AIs, avian gods, telepathic spiders, poet kings, apocalyptic guardians, and hapless time travelers.
Visit entire worlds during your coffee break.
These five-minute reads range between hilarious and heartbreaking. Meet feline space invaders, rogue AIs, avian gods, telepathic spiders, poet kings, apocalyptic guardians, and hapless time travelers.
Visit entire worlds during your coffee break.
126 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 15, 2025
About the author
Alex Shvartsman
160 books146 followersAlex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. He's the author of The Middling Affliction (2022) and Eridani's Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Kakistocracy, a sequel to The Middling Affliction, is forthcoming in 2023.
Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist (2015 and 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction.
His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were published in 2015. His second collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories followed in 2018.
Alex is the editor of over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F.
Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist (2015 and 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction.
His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were published in 2015. His second collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories followed in 2018.
Alex is the editor of over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F.
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April 3, 2026
I read the stories of this wonderful sci-fi/fantasy collection as a reward for finishing tedious tasks I wasn’t looking forward to doing.
One story I really wanted to read for doing each thing I did not want to do but needed to be done.
It worked like a charm!
Well-written, funny and smart short stories, filled with many surprises.
I loved them !
One story I really wanted to read for doing each thing I did not want to do but needed to be done.
It worked like a charm!
Well-written, funny and smart short stories, filled with many surprises.
I loved them !
Displaying 1 of 1 review