Unidentified Funny Objects Series

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. Featuring stories by: George R. R. Martin Neil Gaiman Andrew Kaye Caroline M. Yoachim Esther Friesner Brent C. Smith Laura Pearlman Tim Pratt Piers Anthony Ian Creasey Oliver Buckram Anaea Lay Karen Haber Eric Kaplan Jody Lynn Nye Tina Gower Zach Shephard Mike Resnick James Aquilone Michael J. Martinez Tina Connolly Gini Koch Jonathan Ems

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.

* Aztec Astronauts * Punster Prophets * Apocalyptic Apps * Cantankerous Cryptids * and the Duck Knight 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. 

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.  

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! * A long time ago in a galaxy close enough not to violate any copyrights, the clone army fighting for the side of the evil empire is made up of a bunch of bros named Chad. * Can a couple of wise guys from New Jersey broker a sit down between two groups of warring aliens? * Witness an epic battle of mad science vs. dark magic. * US presidents elected in 1860 and 1960 were both assassinated. What's going to happen to whoever's elected in 2060? * Beware the dragon polite enough to return your drone after it breached the barriers between worlds and bonked him on the snout.

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR   The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices!   * Superheroes mired in government bureaucracy. * Cat cat-burglars * Grandmotherly golems. * Literal-minded self-driving cars. * Evil overlords retired in Florida. * Indifferent aliens.

Seventeen of the funniest science fiction stories published in the past decade (2005-2015), featuring alien invasions, global conspiracies, time travel and even animal uprisings. Fiction by Hugo and Nebula award winners and nominees as well as talented newcomers. Stories were selected by the Unidentified Funny Objects series curator Alex Shvartsman.

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! In this volume you'll find:   * Overworked fairies distributing swords. * Alien yeti slackers * Elf bakers * Absconded books * Superhero dance battles * Matchmakers ... in spaaace!   This anthology contains the following stories:   "The Hero of Small Things" by Amanda Saville   "Chai Noon" by Esther Friesner   "If Pages Could Blush" by Kyle A. Massa   "The Time Loop Device is Counting Down" by Beth Goder   "Crouching Swan Hidden Polka" by Jim C Hines   "Sgt. Yeti" by Gini Koch   "The Great Beyond Commands" by John Wiswell   "The Second Wish" by James Beamon   "These Three Aliens Walk into a Bar" by Simon R. Green   "Our Most Sincere Apologies to the People of Brazil" by Jane Espenson   "Liability Insurance Policy for Immortals, Cryptids, and Other Magical Beings: Annual Newsletter" by Tina Connolly   "The Shadchen of Venus" by Lavie Tidhar   "Cory Sucks" by Auston Habershaw   "Sunnyside Daycare Employees' Chat Log, Post Alien Takeover" by Amanda Helms   "Cooking Up Trouble" by C. Flynt   "Right to Remain Silent" by Jody Lynn Nye   "Auntie Elsie's Compleat Guide to Heartbreak" by Tim Pratt   "The Troll Bridge" by Adam Gaylord   "Do Gumshoes Dream of Electric Sleep" by Dave Vierling   "Hell's Bureaucracy" by David Hankins   "A Crisis of Fate" by Zach Shephard  

From evil overlords to bumbling henchmen, talking cats to lovelorn fishermen, mad queens to wise opossums, the collected fourteen stories subvert popular fantasy tropes in surprising and delightful ways. This book collects some of the best funny fantasy fiction published in the past decade. Included are works by Hugo and Nebula Award winners, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, as well as up-and-coming talented writers.

18 short stories of humorous horror! Read this book to: * Meet communist werewolves, mad scientists, and Jewish vampires. * Reject novel pitches from famous zombie novelists. * Provide psychotherapy for Cthulhu. * Domesticate angry gods. * Install Linux on a dead badger. Includes the following stories: "No Children, No Pets" by Esther Friesner "43 Responses to 'In Memory of Dr. Alexandra Nako'" by Barbara A. Barnett "Kvetchula's Daughter" by Darrell Schweitzer "The Great VuDu Linux Teen Zombie Massacree" by Lucy A. Snyder "Good Neighbors" by Amanda C. Davis "Happily and Righteously" by Larry Hodges "Stalking the Zombie" by Mike Resnick "Restless in R'yleh" by Oliver Buckram "P.R. Problems" by Eric James Stone "Hot Fudge and Whipped Cream" by Tarl Kudrick "Death: A List" by Tanya Bryan "Soccer Mom Smackdown" by Julia S. Mandala "The God Whisperer" by Daniel J. Davis "Meat and Greet" by Jamie Todd Rubin "Something Virtual This Way Comes" by Laura Resnick "The Story of Emily and Control" by Scott Alexander "Howl!" by Jody Lynn Nye "Final Corrections" by M. Bennardo