Unidentified Funny Objects is a collection of humorous science fiction and fantasy. Packed with laughs, it has 29 stories ranging from lighthearted whimsy to the wild and zany.
 Inside you will find a zombear, tweeting aliens, down-on-their-luck vampires, time twisting belly dancers, moon Nazis, stoned computers, omnivorous sex-maniac pandas, and a spell-casting Albert Einstein.

Unidentified Funny Objects

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mike Resnick

Ken Liu

Jody Lynn Nye

Jennifer Pelland

Stephanie Burgis

Lavie Tidhar

Alex Shvartsman

Sergey Lukyanenko

Jake Kerr

Nathaniel Lee

Fantasy

UFO Publishing

UFO2 is the second annual collection of humorous science fiction and fantasy short stories. Inside you'll find: - A golem on an interstellar cruise ship - Dragon-taunting for fun and profit - Time travel gone really wrong - Cubicle farm wizardry - Alien behemoths in Central Park

Unidentified Funny Objects 2

Esther Friesner

ROBERT SILVERBERG

Tim Pratt

Jim C. Hines

K.G. Jewell

M.C.A. Hogarth

Desmond Warzel

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.

Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic

Cat Rambo

A.C. Wise

E.C. Myers

Charity Tahmaseb

Oliver Buckram

Beth Cato

Matt Mikalatos

James Beamon

Tim McDaniel

Peter Sursi

Jonathan Shipley

Katherine Sparrow

Teri Babcock

Literature & Fiction

SCIENCE FICTION. FANTASY. HUMOR. This is the third annual volume of Unidentified Funny Objects and it contains twenty-three humorous short stories from some of the genre's best-known authors, as well as talented up-and-comers. These are some of the unlikely characters you will encounter in the pages of this book: * Hobo Satan * Vampire novelist * Traveling robot salesman * Brain-in-a-jar superhero * Jinn trapped in a mattress

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Gini Koch

Piers, Anthony

Karen Haber

Kevin J.Anderson

40 short stories by Alex Shvartsman, winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction. * An elder god trapped in a pocket dimension turns up in the world's oldest magic pawn shop. * A cybernetically-enhanced assassin who can't feel pain faces a dangerous adversary. * A computer hacker and a mystic team up to break into the Book of Fate and change their futures. * Vatican investigators are called to examine a miracle on another planet. and much, much more! Each story includes author notes, written for this collection. Praise for "Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma": "Wit, sentiment, imagination--Alex Shvartsman's got them all." -Mike Resnick, Hugo award winner. "Fantastic variety and scope ... Prepare to be entertained, delighted and amazed." -Esther Friesner, Nebula award winner. "His stories feature tightly constructed, intricate, puzzle-like plots with clever banter and plenty of fresh, twisted pop culture references." -Ken Liu, Hugo and Nebula award winner "Full of intriguing ideas and wit." -Jody Lynn Nye, bestselling author "A wonderful collection of short stories that will make you laugh, think and feel." -Gini Koch, bestselling author "If you ever need to explain Cthulhu to your Grandma, this is the place to start." -Henry Gee, senior editor at Nature.

Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories

The fourth volume of the annual Unidentified Funny Objects series features the theme of dark humor. What happens when you ask some of the genre's masters to interpret this theme? The enclosed twenty-three darkly humorous tales range from black comedy to biting satire to morbid irony and everything in between. Inside this book you'll find Faustian bargains gone awry, time-traveling ghosts, flawed supervillains, talking hamsters, and much more.

Unidentified Funny Objects 4

George R.R.Martin

Neil, Gaiman

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR. * Aztec Astronauts * Punster Prophets * Apocalyptic Apps * Cantankerous Cryptids * and the Duck Knight The fifth annual volume of the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology series features eighteen lighthearted science fiction and fantasy tales from the masters of the genre. Read about planetary adoptions, secret agent princesses, alien cooking reality shows, rigged elections, magical insurance agents, and much more.

Unidentified Funny Objects 5

Laura RESNICK

DAVID GERROLD

Caroline M. Yoachim

From the foreword by Kevin J. Anderson: Words. Yes. No. I want. How much? Do this. Please. Thank you. Words are the gears that make civilization function, the tools that move almost every action in our daily lives. Through words we create instructions, blueprints, cooperation, organization. But some people use words as more than just gears and tools. They elevate language to an art, an evocative level beyond mere instructions. They use words as a brush to create and paint sweeping imaginary landscapes that they can make other people see in their own minds. They use words to sculpt characters with history, personalities, scars of tragedy or a sense of humor. 
Writers see words as wondrous things, ordinary beans that can spawn a magical beanstalk, simple keys that can unlock Pandora s Box. Readers feast on the fantastic concoctions that wordsmiths create from these sophisticated, sorcerous tools. Any bookstore offers shelves of published novels from well-known and well-loved masters of the craft, storytellers who have entertained us for years, thereby creating a special place in our hearts and our imaginations. But how many other word wizards live among us, secretly practicing their magic, developing their skills, hoping to one day become masters themselves? Many try to take up the special mantle, hoping that their magic is good enough to be noticed. Spark: A Creative Anthology is one way for those emerging apprentice storytellers to take one step closer to becoming a master. Spark is a quarterly anthology and accompanying writing contest dedicated to fostering emerging talent with participation from industry professionals. Established writers and editors serve as guest judges for each contest, and the new stars who shine the brightest are featured here. In all likelihood, you don t recognize many of the names featured in the table of contents at least not yet. But judging by the quality of what I ve read, you will know them. You will. Kevin J. Anderson ___________________________ Here's just a sampling of the great content you can expect: Cover art and illustrations by Paul Pederson Amazing new stories from: Brad R. Torgersen Alex Kane Annie Bellet Su J. Sokol Erica L. Satifka George Wells Alexis A. Hunter Natalia Theodoridou Hannah Lackoff Florence Major Anna Yeatts Mary Hedengren JC Hemphill Kaitlyn M. M. Caul Terri Wallace Chip Houser Samantha Kymmell-Harvey Brianne Kohl Will Mayer Terry Sanville Alex Shvartsman Stewart C Baker Michael Hodges Melinda Brasher Julia Patt Tom Howard Sadie Bruce Hannah Streett Joe Baumann Peter Medeiros ... and more!

Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume IV

ALEX KANE

Brad R. Torgersen

Alexis A. Hunter

George Wells

Annie Bellet

Kaitlyn M. M. Caul

Will Mayer

Julia Patt

Chip Houser

Su J. Sokol

Sadie Bruce

Joe Baumann

Brianne Kohl

Hannah Streett

Natalia Theodoridou

Short Stories & Anthologies

Empire & Great Jones Little Press

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR * Cranky Goblin Cooks * Unscrupulous Chemists * Lecherous Space Pirates * Disagreeable Alien Symbiotes * Soul-Searching Snot Elementals The Unidentified Funny Objects series serves an annual dose of funny. zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! Our sixth volume features a Mad Amos story by Alan Dean Foster, a Harry the Book tale by Mike Resnick, and an Alexander Outland short by Gini Koch. Jim Hines reimagines a Game of Thrones with goblins in it, Ken Liu begs a sentient AI to spare him, and Esther Friesner takes us on a tour of Chelm, complete with dragons and gratuitous footnotes. There are also tales of an interdimensional secret agent, a warrior-writer on a quest from an evil god, a necromancer intent on rehabilitating the image of his profession, and many more.

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Jack, Campbell

alan-dean-foster

The Horror at Pooh Corner

Jonathan Maberry

Eric James Stone

Esther M. Friesner

Julie Frost

Janci Patterson

Gustavo Bondoni

Lehua Parker

Lee Allred

D. J. Butler

Joseph Capdepon, 2nd

Jaleta Clegg

Michalebrent Collings

Steve Diamond

Kary English

Cedar Sanderson

Leigh Saunders

Hemelein Publications

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