Alex Shvartsman

About The Author

Alex Shvartsman is the author of Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani’s Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Over 120 of his short stories have appeared in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, Fireside, Weird Tales, Galaxy’s Edge, and many other venues. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction in 2014 and was a three-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction.

Alex’s translations from Russian have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Asimov’s, Apex, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.

He’s the editor of the Unidentified Funny Objects series of humorous SF/F, as well as a variety of other anthologies, including The Cackle of Cthulhu (Baen), Humanity 2.0 (Arc Manor), and Funny Science Fiction (UFO). For five years he edited Future Science Fiction Digest, a magazine that focused on international fiction.

His website is www.alexshvartsman.com and his Twitter handle is @AShvartsman.

Books by Alex Shvartsman

They're Here!
Contributions by Poul Anderson, Anthony Boucher, Steve Diamond, Neil Gaiman, Zenna Henderson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Richard Matheson, Larry Niven, Lester del Rey, Spider Robinson, James H. Schmitz, Michael Shaara, Alex Shvartsman, Robert Silverberg, Allen Steele and Theodore Sturgeon / Edited by Hank Davis and Sean C.W. Korsgaard
THE ALIENS ARE AMONG US! “Where is everybody?” Nobel Prize–winning physicist Enrico Fermi once asked after a discussion about the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. To sum up the Fermi Paradox, if the billions of stars in our galaxy have planets with intelligent life on t...
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The Cackle of Cthulhu
Edited by Alex Shvartsman
TOP AUTHORS POKE FUN AND PAY TRIBUTE TO H.P. LOVECRAFT'S CTHULHU MYTHOS.

Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Cthul.
Cthul who?
Exactly! I've come to tickle your funnybone.
Oh, and also to eat your soul.

In 1928, Weird Tales debu...
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