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Alex Shvartsman

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November 19, 1975

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Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. He's the author of The Middling Affliction (2022) and Eridani's Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Kakistocracy, a sequel to The Middling Affliction, is forthcoming in 2023.

Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist (2015 and 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction.

His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were published in 2015. His second collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories followed in 2018.

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	Unidentified Funny Objects (UFO #1) by Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Scott Almes (Goodreads Author), Sergei Lukyanenko 3.76 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Funny Science Fiction by Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Resnick, Ken Liu (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unidentified Funny Objects 3 (UFO #3) by Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author), James A. Miller really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Middling Affliction (Conradverse Chronicles #1) 3.87 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Funny Fantasy by Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author), Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author), Esther M. Friesner 3.72 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unidentified Funny Objects 4 (UFO #4) by Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author), Andrew Kaye 3.90 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories by Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author), Ken Liu (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unidentified Funny Objects 7 (UFO, #7) by Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Resnick, Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unidentified Funny Objects 5 (UFO #5) by Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Gerrold (Goodreads Author), Esther M. Friesner 4.04 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Ah, yes, well that’s the problem with the English language, isn’t it? All the words mean different things.”
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“If you want to get anything done, you don’t go to the government.”
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“Instead of finishing the sentence she slid a business card across the counter. It listed her contact information for every social media site I'd heard of, and several that were still in beta. Except for Google Plus. Even Internet-addicted fairies have standards.”
― Alex Shvartsman, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories

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