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UFO #10
Unidentified Funny Objects 10
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Expected 26 May 26The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! In this volume you'll find:
* Space orc diplomats
* Hapless necromancers
* Gamification of everything
* Plumbing problems at an evil wizard’s castle
* Get-rich-quick schemes gone wrong
* Seussian cyberpunk
No AI! Written by organic, locally-sourced human authors.
This anthology contains the following stories:
“How to Make Everything Better for Everyone” – Jane Espenson
“Hort0n” – Mark S. Bailen
“A Draining Affair” – Caitlin Rozakis
“The Shank of the Evening” – Nick Mamatas
“Disaster Recovery” – Arthur H. Manners
“War Economy” – Will Brege
“I Hate This Planet” – Alan Dean Foster
“Love or Lizard Island” – Jackie Rogoff
“Stupid Cupid” – Zach Shephard
“Boracle’s Four” – Kit Gadgitar
“Opacity” – Leo Kaganov, translated by Alex Shvartsman
“Passengers” – Simon R. Green
“Nicky’s Sea Goat” – Nathaniel Mumau
“Back to School Guidelines (Tentaculon-Approved)” – Tina Connolly
“One More Night” – Esther Friesner
“My Counsel of Bugs” – John Butterworth III
“Intruders at the Party on Pluto IV” – Agatha Grimke
“The Cat Lady Cometh” – Gini Koch
“The Brightest of Futures” – Brad Preslar
“Bruiser’s Breakout” – David Hankins
“A Peaceful Country Sojourn” – C. Flynt
“The Sixth Stage of Grief is Necromancy” – Rachel Meresman
“Cold Case” – Jody Lynn Nye
“Humanities” – Desmond Warzel
* Space orc diplomats
* Hapless necromancers
* Gamification of everything
* Plumbing problems at an evil wizard’s castle
* Get-rich-quick schemes gone wrong
* Seussian cyberpunk
No AI! Written by organic, locally-sourced human authors.
This anthology contains the following stories:
“How to Make Everything Better for Everyone” – Jane Espenson
“Hort0n” – Mark S. Bailen
“A Draining Affair” – Caitlin Rozakis
“The Shank of the Evening” – Nick Mamatas
“Disaster Recovery” – Arthur H. Manners
“War Economy” – Will Brege
“I Hate This Planet” – Alan Dean Foster
“Love or Lizard Island” – Jackie Rogoff
“Stupid Cupid” – Zach Shephard
“Boracle’s Four” – Kit Gadgitar
“Opacity” – Leo Kaganov, translated by Alex Shvartsman
“Passengers” – Simon R. Green
“Nicky’s Sea Goat” – Nathaniel Mumau
“Back to School Guidelines (Tentaculon-Approved)” – Tina Connolly
“One More Night” – Esther Friesner
“My Counsel of Bugs” – John Butterworth III
“Intruders at the Party on Pluto IV” – Agatha Grimke
“The Cat Lady Cometh” – Gini Koch
“The Brightest of Futures” – Brad Preslar
“Bruiser’s Breakout” – David Hankins
“A Peaceful Country Sojourn” – C. Flynt
“The Sixth Stage of Grief is Necromancy” – Rachel Meresman
“Cold Case” – Jody Lynn Nye
“Humanities” – Desmond Warzel
323 pages, Paperback
Expected publication May 26, 2026
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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