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Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic ed. Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing, December 9, 2013, 978-0-9884328-3-3, $9.99, 168pp, tp, oa, cover by Emerson Matsuuchi)
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· Foreword · Alex Shvartsman · fw

· A Darker Brew · Teri Babcock · ss

· At the Everywhere Cafe · A. C. Wise · ss

· Caution: Contents Hot · E. C. Myers · ss From the Asylum April 2007

· Dungeons and Dental Plans · Tim McDaniel · ss Abandoned Towers #3, July 2009

· From the Shores of Tripoli · Jonathan Shipley · ss Worlds of Fantasy & Horror Winter 1996/1997

· Ghost in the Coffee Machine · Charity Tahmaseb · ss

· Sexiest Fun Time Drug · Katherine Sparrow · ss

· The Civet Whisperer · James Beamon · ss

· The Coffeemaker’s Passion · Cat Rambo · ss Bull Spec #5, Spring 2011

· The Cup of Truth · Matt Mikalatos · ss

· The Man Who Heard Doughnuts · Oliver Buckram · ss

· The Perfect Book · Ken Liu · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact December 2012

· The Seven Samovars · Peter Sursi · ss Lightspeed #28, September 2012

· Toilet Gnomes at War · Beth Cato · ss Stupefying Stories November 2012

Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse ed. Alex Shvartsman & William Snee (Deorc Enterprise, March 19, 2014, $4.99, ebook, oa, cover by Alex Schnarr)
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· Foreword · Alex Shvartsman · fw

· Castles in the Sky · Nancy Fulda · ss

· Dominoes Falling · Alex Shvartsman · ss

· The Ten Suns · Ken Liu · ss

· Betrayal, Clear as Kanzai Glass · Deborah Walker · ss

· The Price of Escape · David Walton · ss

· Hellfire Unleashed · Simon Kewin · ss

· Breaking Down · Michael Haynes · ss

· They Cannot Scare Me with Their Empty Spaces · Deborah Walker · ss

· A Small and Secret Freedom · Matt Mikalatos · ss

· Lightspeed Back to You · David Wayne · ss

· Escape from Planet Error · Michael Greenhut · ss

· Jump · Deborah Walker · ss

· Loud, for All the Stars to Hear · Alex Kane · ss

· To Soar on Winds of War · David Wayne · ss

· Fires of Night · Alvaro Zinos-Amaro · ss

· Gorlack the Destroyer’s All You Can Eat Adventure · Robert Lowell Russell · ss

· Ghost Ship · Nancy Fulda · ss

· The Shadow Conspiracy · Nancy Fulda · ss

Funny Fantasy ed. Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing, April 26, 2016, 978-0-9884328-8-8, $14.99, 292pp, tp, oa, cover by Tomasz Maronski)
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1 · Foreword · Alex Shvartsman · fw

3 · Dave the Mighty Steel-Thewed Avenger · Laura Resnick · nv

27 · Crumbs · Esther Friesner · nv Fantasy Gone Wrong ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren, DAW, 2006

53 · Fellow Traveler · Donald J. Bingle · ss Fantasy Gone Wrong ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren, DAW, 2006

65 · A Fish Story · Sarah Totton · ss Realms of Fantasy October 2006

81 · Another End of the Empire · Tim Pratt · ss Strange Horizons June 22 2009

99 · Giantkiller · G. Scott Huggins · nv Heroes in Training ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Jim C. Hines, DAW, 2007

123 · A Mild Case of Death · David Gerrold · ss Galaxy’s Edge #15, July 2015

141 · Fairy Debt · Gail Carriger · ss

161 · A Very Special Girl [Harry the Book] · Mike Resnick · ss Blood Lite ed. Kevin J. Anderson, Pocket, 2008

179 · The Blue Corpse Corps · Jim C. Hines · ss The Goblin Master’s Grimoire by Jim C. Hines, ISFiC Press, 2013

199 · Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel · Shaenon K. Garrity · ss Strange Horizons October 17 2011

217 · The Queen’s Reason · Richard Parks · nv Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #25, May 2010

241 · The Best Little Cleaning Robot in All of Faerie · Susan Jane Bigelow · ss Apex Magazine #69, February 2015

261 · Suede This Time · Jean Rabe · nv Magic Tails ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Janet Pack, DAW, 2005

Funny Horror ed. Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing, February 23, 2017, 978-1-5430-0689-6, $14.99, 251pp, tp, an, cover by Michelle Tolo)
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1 · Foreword · Alex Shvartsman · fw

3 · No Children, No Pets · Esther Friesner · nv Full Moon City ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Darrell Schweitzer, Pocket, 2010

25 · 43 Responses to “In Memory of Dr. Alexandra Nako” · Barbara A. Barnett · vi Daily Science Fiction February 5 2016

39 · Kvetchula’s Daughter [Kvetchula] · Darrell Schweitzer · nv Full Moon City ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Darrell Schweitzer, Pocket, 2010

61 · The Great VüDü Linux Teen Zombie Massacree · Lucy A. Snyder · ss Spacesuits and Sixguns Spring 2007

75 · Good Neighbors · Amanda C. Davis · ss Not Our Kind ed. Nayad Monroe, Alliteration Ink, 2015

93 · Happily and Righteously · Larry Hodges · ss

99 · Stalking the Zombie · Mike Resnick · nv Stalking the Zombie by Mike Resnick, American Fantasy Press, 2012

125 · Restless in R’lyeh · Oliver Buckram · ss
originally appeared in the audio download The Drabblecast #368, August 30, 2015.

135 · P.R. Problems · Eric James Stone · ss Blood Lite ed. Kevin J. Anderson, Pocket, 2008

145 · Hot Fudge and Whipped Cream · Tarl Kudrick · ss The Town Drunk 2007

163 · Death: A List · Tanya Bryan · ss Feathertale November 28 2013

167 · Soccer Mom SmackDown · Julia S. Mandala · ss Fangs for the Mammaries ed. Esther Friesner, Baen, 2010

181 · The God Whisperer · Daniel J. Davis · ss L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 31 ed. David Farland, Galaxy, 2015

191 · Meat and Greet · Jamie Todd Rubin · ss Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show #43, January 2015

197 · Something Virtual This Way Comes · Laura Resnick · ss Something Magic This Way Comes ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Sarah A. Hoyt, DAW, 2008

213 · The Story of Emily and Control · Scott Alexander · ss squid314.livejournal.com April 7 2011

223 · Howl! · Jody Lynn Nye · nv Strip Mauled ed. Esther Friesner, Baen, 2009

247 · Final Corrections · M. Bennardo · vi Daily Science Fiction January 3 2013

Funny Science Fiction ed. Alex Shvartsman (UFO Publishing, January 14, 2016, 978-0-9884328-7-1, $14.99, 283pp, tp, an, cover by Flavio Greco Paglia)
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1 · Foreword · Alex Shvartsman · fw

3 · Observation Post · Mike Resnick · nv Beyond the Sun ed. Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Fairwood Press, 2013

43 · Flying on My Hatred of My Neighbor’s Dog · Shaenon K. Garrity · ss
originally appeared in the audio download The Drabblecast #298, October 3, 2013.

59 · Wikihistory · Desmond Warzel · ss Abyss & Apex #24, 4th Quarter 2007

67 · Distant Gates of Eden Gleam · Brian Trent · nv Crossed Genres Magazine #25, January 2015

89 · Half a Conversation, Overheard While Inside an Enormous Sentient Slug · Oliver Buckram · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2013

95 · Hark! Listen to the Animals · Lisa Tang & Ken Liu · nv Galaxy’s Edge #9, July 2014
a different version of this story appeared in The ePocalypse: e-mails at the end ed. Jessy Marie Roberts (Pill Hill Press, 2011).

119 · Whaliens · Lavie Tidhar · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact April 2014

141 · See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES! · Tina Connolly · vi Lightspeed #49, June 2014

145 · Kallakak’s Cousins · Cat Rambo · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction March 2008

167 · Kulturkampf · Anatoly Belilovsky · ss The Immersion Book of Steampunk ed. Gareth D. Jones & Carmelo Rafala, Immersion Press, 2011

173 · Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs · Leonard Richardson · ss Strange Horizons July 13 2009

189 · Miss Darcy’s First Intergalactic Ballet Class · Dantzel Cherry · ss Galaxy’s Edge #15, July 2015

207 · Pidgin · Lawrence M. Schoen · ss Aliens and AIs by Lawrence M. Schoen, Eggplant Literary Productions, 2005

213 · Nothing, Ventured · James Beamon · ss AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review October 1 2013

223 · Last Thursday at Supervillain Supply Depot · Sarah Pinsker · vi Daily Science Fiction April 10 2015

229 · Chicka-Chicka-Bow-Wow · Mike Rimar · ss Cucurbital 2 ed. Lawrence M. Schoen, Paper Golem, 2011

247 · Troublesolving · Tim Pratt · nv Subterranean (online) Fall 2009

Humanity 2.0 ed. Alex Shvartsman (Phoenix Pick, November 2016, 978-1-61242-309-8, $14.99, 271pp, tp, oa, cover by Holly Heisey)
Original anthology of 15 stories, six reprints, about what it might meant to be human in the future. Authors include Ken Liu, Jody Lynn Nye, David Walton, and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro.
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7 · Foreword · Alex Shvartsman · fw

11 · The Waves · Ken Liu · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction December 2012

33 · Justice and Shadow · Angus McIntyre · ss

49 · Nexus · Nancy Fulda · ss

61 · A Lack of Congenial Solutions · Kenneth Schneyer · ss

73 · Green Girl Blues · Martin L. Shoemaker · ss

91 · Mindjack · Jody Lynn Nye · nv

111 · Picnic on Nearside [Eight Worlds] · John Varley · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1974

137 · An Endless Series of Doors · David Walton · ss

147 · Angry Rose’s Lament · Cat Rambo · ss Abyss & Apex #28, 4th Quarter 2008

163 · The Right Place to Start a Family · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss

173 · The Iron Star · Robert Silverberg · nv The Universe ed. Byron Preiss, Bantam Spectra, 1987

197 · e^h · Alvaro Zinos-Amaro · nv

217 · The Hand on the Cradle · Brenda Cooper · ss

231 · The Homecoming · Mike Resnick · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction April/May 2011

251 · Star Light, Star Bright · Robert J. Sawyer · ss Far Frontiers ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, DAW, 2000

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)
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· 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)
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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.
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· 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

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