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Unidentified Funny Objects ed. Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing, December 17, 2012, 978-0-9884328-0-2, $15.99, 320pp, tp, oa, cover by Dixon Leavitt)
Details taken from online listing.

· Foreword · Alex Shvartsman · fw

· Timber! · Scott Almes · ss

· The Alien Invasion as Seen in the Twitter Stream of @dweebless · Jake Kerr · ss

· Dreaming Harry · Stephanie Burgis · ss

· Fight Finale from the Near Future · James Beamon · ss

· Temporal Shimmies · Jennifer Pelland · ss

· The Day They Repossessed My Zombies · K. G. Jewell · ss

· Moon Landing · Lavie Tidhar · ss

· The Last Dragon Slayer · Chuck Rothman · ss

· Love Thy Neighbors · Ken Liu · ss

· The Venus of Willendorf · Deborah Walker · ss

· The Alchemist’s Children · Nathaniel Lee · ss

· The Fifty-One Suitors of Princess Jamatpie · Leah Cypess · ss

· If You Act Now · Sergey Lukyanenko · ss
translated from the Russian (2002).

· No Silver Lining · Zach Shephard · ss

· Go Karts for God · Michael Kurland · ss

· My Kingdom for a Horse · Stephen D. Rogers · ss

· Cake from Mars · Marko Kloos · ss

· An Unchanted Sword · Jeff Stehman · ss

· The Real Thing · Don Sakers · ss

· 2001 Revisited via 1969 · Bruce Golden · ss

· First Date · Jamie Lackey · ss

· One-Hand Tantra · Ferrett Steinmetz · ss

· Of Mat and Math · Anatoly Belilovsky · ss

· All I Want for Christmas · Siobhan Gallagher · ss

· The Velveteen Golem · David Sklar · ss

· The Working Stiff · Matt Mikalatos · ss

· Worm’s Eye View · Jody Lynn Nye · ss

· The Secret Life of Sleeping Beauty · Charity Tahmaseb · ss

· El and Al vs. Himmler’s Horrendous Horde from Hell · Mike Resnick · ss

Unidentified Funny Objects 2 ed. Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing, October 7, 2013, 978-0-9884328-2-6, $15.99, 295pp, tp, oa, cover by Arnie Swekel)
Details taken from online listing.

1 · Foreword · Alex Shvartsman · fw

3 · The MSG Golem · Ken Liu · nv; illustrated by Barry Munden

25 · Service Charge · Esther M. Friesner · ss; illustrated by Barry Munden

43 · Item Not as Described · J. W. Alden · ss

53 · Stranger vs. The Malevolent Malignancy · Jim C. Hines · ss; illustrated by Barry Munden

73 · How to Feed Your Pyrokinetic Toddler · Fran Wilde · ss

77 · A Stiff Bargain · Matt Mikalatos · ss; illustrated by Barry Munden

93 · The Girl with the Dagon Tattoo · Josh Vogt · ss

97 · Improved Cubicle Door · M. C. A. Hogarth · nv

119 · On Safari · Mike Resnick · nv Gateways ed. Elizabeth Anne Hull, Tor, 2010; illustrated by Barry Munden

141 · How You Ruined Everything · Konstantine Paradias · ss

151 · Insider Information · Jody Lynn Nye · ss; illustrated by Barry Munden

169 · The Haunted Blender · K. G. Jewell · ss

179 · The Retgun · Tim Pratt · ss; illustrated by Barry Munden

199 · The Diplomat’s Holiday · Heather Lindsley · ss

205 · Congratulations on Your Apotheosis · Michelle Ann King · ss

219 · One Thing Leads to Your Mother · Desmond Warzel · ss

231 · Class Action Orc · James Beamon · ss; illustrated by Barry Munden

247 · The Wiggy Turpin Affair · Wade Albert White · ss

267 · Hannibal’s Elephants · Robert Silverberg · nv Omni October 1988; illustrated by Barry Munden

Unidentified Funny Objects 3 ed. Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing, October 1, 2014, 978-0-9884328-4-0, $15.99, 302pp, tp, oa, cover by Tomasz Maronski)
Original anthology of 23 humorous stories, two reprints. Authors include Jody Lynn Nye, Jim C. Hines, Karen Haber, and Tim Pratt.
Details taken from online listing.

· Foreword · Alex Shvartsman · fw

· Of the Efficacy of Supervillain Battles in Eliciting Theraputic Breakthroughs · Jim C. Hines · ss

· The Right Answer · James A. Miller · ss

· The Gefilte Fish Girl · Mike Resnick · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 1997

· Master of Business Apocalypse · Jakob Drud · ss

· Carla at the Off-Planet Tax Return Helpline · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss

· Why I Bought Satan Two Cokes on the Day I Graduated High School · Nathaniel Lee · ss

· Company Store · Robert Silverberg · ss Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1959

· The Door-to-Door Salesthing from Planet X · Josh Vogt · ss

· Picture Perfect · Matt Mikalatos · ss

· The Discounted Seniors · James Beamon · ss

· That Must Be Them Now · Karen Haber · ss

· Notes to My Past and/or Alternate Selves · Sarah Pinsker · ss

· The Real and the Really Real · Tim Pratt · ss

· Into the Woods, with Zombunny · Camille Griep · ss

· Live at the Scene · Gini Koch · ss

· The Newsboy’s Last Stand · Krystal Claxton · ss

· The Full Lazenby · Jeremy Butler · ss

· Do Not Remove This Tag · Piers Anthony · ss

· Super-Baby-Moms Group Saves the Day! · Tina Connolly · ss

· The Choochoomorphosis · Oliver Buckram · ss

· The Fate Worse Than Death · Kevin J. Anderson & Guy Anthony De Marco · ss

· Elections at Villa Encantada · Cat Rambo · ss

· Infinite Drive · Jody Lynn Nye · ss

Unidentified Funny Objects 4 ed. Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing, October 15, 2015, 978-0-9884328-6-4, $15.99, 305pp, tp, oa, cover by Tomasz Maronski)
Original anthology of 23 humorous stories, two reprints. Authors include Esther Friesner, Tim Pratt, Piers Anthony, and Mike Resnick.
Details taken from online listing.

· The Time-Traveling Ghost Machine of Professor Jaime Pelligrosa · Andrew Kaye · ss

· Please Approve the Dissertation Research of Angtor · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss

· Match Game · Esther Friesner · ss

· The Transformation of Prince Humphrey · Brent C. Smith · ss

· In the End, You Get Clarity · Laura Pearlman · ss

· Project Disaster · Tim Pratt · ss

· Hello Hotel · Piers Anthony · ss

· Bob’s No-Kill Monster Shelter · Ian Creasey · ss

· Board Meeting Minutes · Oliver Buckram · ss

· Armed for You · Anaea Lay · ss

· The Unfortunate Problem of Grandmother’s Head · Karen Haber · ss

· My Mother Loves Her Robot More Than Me and I Feel Bad · Eric Kaplan · ss

· The Worm That Turned · Jody Lynn Nye · ss

· Department of Death Predictions, Final Notice · Tina Gower · ss

· Champions of Breakfast · Zach Shepard · ss

· Keeping Ahead [Lucifer Jones] · Mike Resnick · ss

· So You’ve Metamorphosed Into a Giant Insect. Now What? · James Aquilone · ss

· Confessions of an Interplanetary Art Fraud · Michael J. Martinez · ss

· Texts from My Mother About the Alien Invasion · Tina Connolly · ss

· Support Your Local Alien · Gini Koch · ss

· Conversation Topics to Avoid on a First Date with Yourself · Jonathan Ems · ss

· We Can Get Them for You Wholesale · Neil Gaiman · ss Knave (UK) v16 #7, 1984

· The Monkey Treatment · George R. R. Martin · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1983

Unidentified Funny Objects 5 ed. Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing, September 2016, 978-0-9884328-9-5, $15.99, 291pp, tp, oa, cover by Tomasz Maronski)
Details taken from online listing.

· Foreword · Alex Shvartsman · fw

· My Enemy, the Unicorn · Bill Ferris · ss

· The Trouble with Hairy · David Gerrold · ss

· B.U.M.P. in the Knight · Esther Friesner · ss

· If I Could Give This Time Machine Zero Stars, I Would · James Wesley Rogers · ss

· The Pi Files · Laura Resnick · ss

· Prophet Margins · Zach Shephard · ss

· The Deliverable · Shaenon K. Garrity · ss

· The Mayoral Stakes · Mike Resnick · ss

· Rude Mechanicals · Jody Lynn Nye · ss

· Kaylee the Huntress · Tim Pratt · ss

· Best Chef Season Three: Tau Ceti e · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss

· Won’t You Please Give One of These Species-Planets a Second Chance? · Nathan Hillstrom · ss

· Fantastic Coverage · Mitchell Shanklin · ss

· Mistaken Identity · Daniel J. Davis · ss

· Customer Service Hobgoblin · Paul R. Hardy · ss

· The Lesser of Two Evils · Shane Halbach · ss

· Appointment at Titlanitza · Fred Stesney · ss

· The Problem with Poofs · Gini Koch · ss

Unidentified Funny Objects 6 ed. Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing, October 10, 2017, 978-0-9992690-0-8, $15.99, 304pp, tp, oa, cover by Tomasz Maronski)
Original anthology of 18 humorous stories. Authors include David Gerrold, Esther Friesner, Jody Lynn Nye, and Tim Pratt.
Details taken from online listing.

· A Game of Goblins · Jim C. Hines · ss

· The Breakdown of Parasite/Host Relationship · Paul R. Hardy · ss

· From This She Makes a Living? · Esther Friesner · ss

· Twenty-Nine Responses to Inquiries About My Craigslist Post: Alien Spaceship for Sale $200, You Haul · Tina Connolly · ss

· Tyler the Snot Elemental Scours the Newspaper, Searching for Change · Zach Shephard · ss

· Agent of Chaos · Jack Campbell · ss

· Display of Affection · P. J. Sambeaux · ss

· The Great Manhattan Eat-Off · Mike Resnick · ss

· An Evil Opportunity Employer · Lawrence Watt-Evans · ss

· Common Scents · Jody Lynn Nye · ss

· A Mountain Man and a Cat Walk Into a Bar · Alan Dean Foster · ss

· Lost and Found · Laura Resnick · ss

· A Crawlspace Full of Prizes · Bill Ferris · ss

· Return to Sender · Melissa Mead · ss

· The Friendly Necromancer · Rod M. Santos · ss

· An Open Letter to the Sentient AI Who Has Announced Its Intention to Take Over the Earth · Ken Liu · ss

· Approved Expense · David Vierling · ss

· Alexander Outland: Space Jockey · Gini Koch · ss

· Dear Joyce · Langley Hyde · ss

· Impress Me, Then We’ll Talk About the Money · Tatiana Ivanova · nv

Arabesques: More Tales of the Arabian Nights ed. Susan M. Shwartz (Avon, August 1988, 0-380-75319-7, $3.50, 258pp, pb, oa)
Original anthology of Arabian Nights-type stories, with new work by Niven, Wolfe, Lee, Norton, etc. A quasi shared world book.

ix · Editor’s Note · Susan M. Shwartz · pr

1 · Tales Told at Ramadan · Susan M. Shwartz · si

6 · The Tale of the Djinni and the Sisters · Larry Niven · ss Argos #1, Winter 1988

20 · The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It) · Gene Wolfe · nv

42 · Foolish, Wicked, Clever and Kind · Tanith Lee · nv

73 · The Caravan’s Tales · Susan M. Shwartz · si

76 · Memoirs of a Bottle Djinni · Jane Yolen · ss

82 · An Eye for the Ladies · Esther M. Friesner · ss

101 · Truthseeker · Nancy Springer · ss

117 · Toward the Realm of Jade · Susan M. Shwartz · si

121 · The Dowry of the Rag Picker’s Daughter · Andre Norton · ss

136 · Kehailan · Judith Tarr · ss

155 · The Elephant In-Law · Elizabeth Ann Scarborough · ss

173 · Tales of the Mongol’s Guards · Susan M. Shwartz · si

177 · The King Who Was Summoned to Damascus · Melissa Scott · ss

196 · The Truthsayer · William R. Forstchen · ss

214 · The Banner of Kaviyan · Harry Turtledove · ss

233 · The Consolations of Philosophy · Susan M. Shwartz · si

236 · The Lovesick Simurgh · M. J. Engh · ss

245 · Ramadan, Again · Susan M. Shwartz · aw

251 · To Learn More About the World of The Arabian Nights · Sandra Miesel · bi

255 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Arabesques 2 ed. Susan M. Shwartz (Avon, July 1989, 0-380-75570-X, $3.95, 370pp, pb, oa)
Original anthology of 16 stories, with framing material by Susan Shwartz. Second anthology of Arabian Nights-style stories Shwartz has edited.

1 · On Wings of Storm · Susan M. Shwartz · ms

5 · The Tale of the First Djinni · Susan M. Shwartz · ms

11 · The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed · Stephen R. Donaldson · nv World Tales ed. G. Randal Rau, 1985 World Fantasy Convention, 1985

33 · Tests of Wit and Law · Susan M. Shwartz · ms

35 · The Wishing Game · Larry Niven · ss Aboriginal Science Fiction May/June 1989

49 · Curse of the Three Demons · Harry Turtledove · nv

75 · The Tale of the Four Accused · Gene Wolfe · ss

87 · The Tale of the Second Djinni · Susan M. Shwartz · ms

89 · The Three Brides of Hamid-Dar · Tanith Lee · ss

107 · Tests of Illusion · Susan M. Shwartz · ms

110 · The Houri’s Mirror · Esther M. Friesner · nv

135 · Ali Achman and the City of Illusion · Ru Emerson · nv

160 · Al-Ghazalah · Judith Tarr · nv

189 · The Scorpion · Nancy Springer · ss

203 · Tests of Truth · Susan M. Shwartz · ms

208 · The Peri, the Roc, and the Undergrooms · M. J. Engh · ss

227 · The Merchant · Melissa Scott · nv

248 · Beyond the Golden Road · Charles Sheffield · nv

275 · The Ruse That Failed · Susan M. Shwartz · ms

279 · The Tale of the Third Djinni · Susan M. Shwartz · ms

281 · The Tale of Sinbad and the Mid-Day Demon · Marvin Kaye · ss

291 · Tests of Love · Susan M. Shwartz · ms

293 · Feather of the Phoenix · Katharine Eliska Kimbriel · nv

326 · The Soul of a Poet · Cherry Wilder · ss

338 · The Flower Princess · Diana L. Paxson · nv

365 · Epilogue: Dawn Songs · Susan M. Shwartz · ms

371 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

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