Unidentified Funny Objects is an annual anthology series of humorous science fiction and fantasy short stories.
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Unidentified Funny Objects 4 Published
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Funny Science Fiction
Funny Science Fiction is a spin-off anthology from the Unidentified Funny Objects (UFO) annual anthology series of humorous SF/F. While UFO attempts to collect some of the best speculative humor being written today, Funny SF gathers seventeen from among the best funny science fiction stories published in the last decade.
Whereas UFO covers both genres, Funny SF collected science fiction stories specifically. There are tentative plans for a Funny Fantasy reprint anthology to follow in 2016.
Cover art is by the talented Flavio Greco Paglia. Cover design is by UFO’s amazing graphics specialist-in-residence and game designer Emerson Matsuuchi.
Funny SF will be published on Amazon on September 1, 2015. It will become available on other e-book platforms in 2016.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Alex Shvartsman
“Observation Post” by Mike Resnick (Beyond the Sun, Fairwood Press, 2013)
“Flying on My Hatred of My Neighbor’s Dog” by Shaenon Garrity (Drabblecast, 2013)
“Wikihistory” by Desmond Warzel (Abyss & Apex, 2007)
“Distant Gates of Eden Gleam” by Brian Trent (Crossed Genres, 2015)
“Half a Conversation, Overheard While Inside an Enormous Sentient Slug” by Oliver Buckram (F&SF, 2013)
“Hark! Listen to the Animals” by Ken Liu and Lisa Tang Liu (Galaxy’s Edge, 2014)
“Whaliens” by Lavie Tidhar (Analog, 2014)
“See Dangerous Earth-Possibles!” by Tina Connolly (Lightspeed Women Destroy Science Fiction, 2014)
“Kallakak’s Cousins” by Cat Rambo (Asimov’s, 2008)
“Kulturkampf” by Anatoly Belilovsky (Immersion Book of Steampunk, Immersion Press, 2011)
“Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs” by Leonard Richardson (Strange Horizons, 2009)
“Miss Darcy’s First Intergalactic Ballet Class” by Dantzel Cherry (Galaxy’s Edge, 2015)
“Pidgin” by Lawrence M. Schoen (Aliens and A.I., Eggplant Literary Productions, 2005)
“Nothing, Ventured” by James Beamon (AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, 2013)
“Last Thursday at Supervillain Supply Depot” by Sarah Pinsker (Daily Science Fiction, 2015)
“Chicka-Chicka-Bow-Wow” by Mike Rimar (Cucurbital 2, Paper Golem Press, 2011)
“Troublesolver” by Tim Pratt (Subterranean Press, 2009)
Unidentified Funny Objects Becomes SFWA’s First Anthology Qualifying Market
Copying the Science Fiction Writers of America press release verbatim below. You can also see UFO listed here.
August 3, 2015
For Immediate Release
Unidentified Funny Objects Becomes SFWA’s First Anthology Qualifying Market
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is pleased to announce that Unidentified Funny Objects, edited and published by Alex Shvartsman, is the first anthology series to join the SFWA list of Qualifying Professional Markets, which holds markets that have been qualified by the SFWA Membership Committee as meeting the SFWA bylaws and other membership criteria. More information can be found on the Membership Requirement page: http://www.sfwa.org/about/join-us/sfwa-membership-requirements/.
Maintaining the list is one way SFWA tries to make the qualification process easier for its members by pre-vetting markets where it can. Unidentified Funny Objects is an annual anthology of humorous SF currently in its fourth year. Past contributors to the anthologies have included George R.R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, and Esther Friesner.
Shvartsman said, “I’m extraordinarily proud for the Unidentified Funny Objects series to join the ranks of the fine publishers and magazines on the qualifying market list. I view our admission both as a valuable service to those authors we’ve published who are in the early stages of their careers, as well as a personal milestone, akin to the moment I was able to join SFWA as a member myself.”
“I’m pleased to see SFWA starting to work out the nuts and bolts of how independently published authors qualify,” said SFWA President Cat Rambo. “As the publishing industry changes, SFWA needs to shift with it, recognizing the various paths to professional success and helping members with whichever they’ve chosen.”
Unidentified Funny Objects 4 cover and table of contents
The fourth annual Unidentified Funny Objects anthology will contain 23 stories totaling approximately 86,000 words. Cover art by Tomasz Maronski. Interior illustrations by Barry Munden.
“We Can Get Them for You Wholesale” by Neil Gaiman
“The Time-Traveling Ghost Machine of Professor Jaime Peligrosa” by Andrew Kaye
“Please Approve the Dissertation Research of Angtor” by Caroline M. Yoachim
“Match Game” by Esther Friesner
“The Transformation of Prince Humphrey” by Brent C. Smith
“In the End, You Get Clarity” by Laura Pearlman
“Project Disaster” by Tim Pratt
“Hello Hotel” by Piers Anthony
“Bob’s No Kill Monster Shelter” by Ian Creasey
“Board Meeting Minutes” by Oliver Buckram
“Armed for You” by Anaea Lay
“The Unfortunate Problem of Grandma’s Head” by Karen Haber
“My Mother Loves Her Robot More than Me and I Feel Bad” by Eric Kaplan
“The Worm that Turned” by Jody Lynn Nye
“Department of Death Predictions, Final Notice” by Tina Gower
“Champions of Breakfast” by Zach Shephard
“Keeping Ahead” by Mike Resnick
“So You’ve Metamorphosed into a Giant Insect. Now What?” by James Aquilone
“Confessions of an Interplanetary Art Fraud” by Michael J. Martinez
“Texts from My Mother about an Alien Invasion” by Tina Connolly
“Support Your Local Alien” by Gini Koch
“Topics to Avoid on a First Date with Yourself” by Jonathan Ems
“The Monkey Treatment” by George R. R. Martin
Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories
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Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories, a collection of 40 short stories by Alex Shvartsman is now available in print and e-book formats.
Audio book, narrated by Tina Connolly, is forthcoming from Audible. You can listen to the title story now:
And here is “Fate and Other Variables”:
Unidentified Funny Objects 3 cover and table of contents
The third annual volume of UFO contains 82,000+ words of fiction, cover art by Tomasz Maronski and interior art by Barry Munden. It will be released on October 1, 2014.
Table of Contents:
- “On the Efficacy of Supervillain Battles in Eliciting Therapeutic Breakthroughs” by Jim C. Hines
- “The Right Answer ” by James Miller
- “The Gefilte Fish Girl ” by Mike Resnick
- “Master of Business Apocalypse ” by Jakob Drud
- “Carla at the Off-Planet Tax Return Helpline ” by Caroline M. Yoachim
- “Why I Bought Satan Two Cokes on the Day I Graduated High School ” by Nathaniel Lee
- “Company Store ” by Robert Silverberg
- “The Door-to-Door Salesthing from Planet X ” by Josh Vogt
- “Picture Perfect ” by Matt Mikalatos
- “The Discounted Seniors ” by James Beamon
- “That Must Be Them Now ” by Karen Haber
- “Notes to My Past and/or Alternate Selves ” by Sarah Pinsker
- “The Real and the Really Real ” by Tim Pratt
- “An Insatiable Craving ” by Camille Griep
- “Live at the Scene ” by Gini Koch
- “The Newsboy’s Last Stand ” by Krystal Claxton
- “The Full Lazenby ” by Jeremy Butler
- “Do Not Remove this Tag ” by Piers Anthony
- “Super-Baby-Mom Group Saves the Day! ” by Tina Connolly
- “The Choochoomorphosis ” by Oliver Buckram
- “The Fate Worse than Death ” by Kevin J. Anderson & Guy Anthony De Marco
- “Elections at Villa Encantada ” by Cat Rambo
- “Infinite Drive” by Jody Lynn Nye
Two reprints are included (stories by Robert Solverberg and Mike Resnick). The rest are original material.
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Coffee Table of Contents & 2013 Holiday Bundle Sale
UFO Publishing is thrilled to present our next anthology, Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic.
Coffee plays a major role in each of the stories collected in this book. Brewed from such fine ingredients as magic, wonder, humor, and romance, Coffee serves up a unique blend of the fantastic you won’t be able to put down.
Release date: December 9, 2013
MSRP $9.99 (trade paperback), $2.99 (e-book).Buy it now.
Table of contents:
Foreword by Alex Shvartsman
At the Everywhere Cafe by A.C. Wise
The Perfect Book by Ken Liu
Toilet Gnomes at War by Beth Cato
The Seven Samovars by Peter Sursi
The Civet Whisperer by James Beamon
From the Shores of Tripoli by Jonathan Shipley
A Darker Brew by Teri Babcock
The Cup of Truth by Matt Mikalatos
Dungeons and Dental Plans by Tim McDaniel
The Man Who Heard Doughnuts by Oliver Buckram
The Coffeemaker’s Passion by Cat Rambo
Caution: Contents Hot by E.C. Myers
Sexiest Fun Time Drug by Katherine Sparrow
Ghost in the Coffee Machine by Charity Tahmaseb
2013 Holiday Bundle Sale
We’re offering a holiday sale through December 9 for the bundle of all three UFO Publishing titles.
Buy trade paperbacks of Unidentified Funny Objects, Unidentified Funny Objects 2, and Coffee for only $29.99 including shipping ($41.97 MSRP) or $49.99 shipped outside of the United States. Or get the e-book bundle for only $11.99 (14.97 MSRP).
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