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Funny Fantasy (Unidentified Funny Objects Annual Anthology Series of Humorous SF/F) by [Alex Shvartsman, Gail Carriger, Esther Friesner, David Gerrold, Laura Resnick, Mike Resnick, Jim C. Hines, Tim Pratt, Jean Rabe]

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Funny Fantasy (Unidentified Funny Objects Annual Anthology Series of Humorous SF/F) Kindle Edition

by Alex Shvartsman (Author), Gail Carriger (Author), Esther Friesner (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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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.

Includes the following stories:

“Dave the Mighty Steel-Thewed Avenger” by Laura Resnick
“Crumbs” by Esther Friesner
“Fellow Traveler” by Donald J. Bingle
“A Fish Story” by Sarah Totton
“Another End of the Empire” by Tim Pratt
“Giantkiller” by G. Scott Huggins
“A Mild Case of Death” by David Gerrold
“Fairy Debt” by Gail Carriger
“A Very Special Girl” by Mike Resnick
“The Blue Corpse Corps” by Jim C. Hines
“Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel” by Shaenon K. Garrity
“The Queens Reason” by Richard Parks
“The Best Little Cleaning Robot in All of Faerie” by Susan Jane Bigelow
“Suede This Time” by Jean Rabe

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210 pages
Language

English
Publication date

April 19, 2016
File size

513 KB
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Gail Carriger
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Alex Shvartsman
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Mike Resnick
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Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01EIZQ3PI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ UFO Publishing (April 19, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 19, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 513 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 210 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #655,004 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,809 in Fantasy Anthologies & Short Stories (Kindle Store)
- #2,070 in Fantasy Anthologies
- #2,649 in Humorous Fantasy (Books)

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Donald J. Bingle
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Author of Frame Shop, a mystery thriller set in a suburban writers' group, Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive, a series of spy thrillers which incorporate real-world conspiracy theories, GREENSWORD, a dark comedy about global warming, and Forced Conversion, a military science fiction novel set in the near future. Co-author of The Love-Haight Case Files, Books 1 and 2, paranormal legal thrillers about lawyers protecting the rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco. Edited the ghost anthology, Familiar Spirits. Also author of a variety of short fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, mystery, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, including stories in the Dragonlance and Transformers universes and in a variety of DAW themed anthologies.
World's top-ranked player of RPGA Classic roleplaying game tournaments from 1985-2000.
See my writing and gaming resumes at www.donaldjbingle.com., including a listing of about fifty anthologies in which I have stories. Some of my previously published stories have been collected by theme in my Writer on Demand TM series and published on Kindle, including Tales of Gamers and Gaming, Tales of Humorous Horror, Tales Out of Time, Grim, Fair e-Tales, Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam, Not-So-Heroic Fantasy, and Shadow Realities. My award-winning short memoir, Father's Day, is also available on Kindle, as is Gentlemanly Horrors of Mine Alone, the ninth story in Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project.
I also have a series of humorous critiques (Season's Critiquings; Merry Mark-Up, Holiday Workshopping, and Santa Clauses and Phrases) of Christmas classics which writers, aspiring authors, and NaNoWriMo participants will find especially amusing.
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Alex Shvartsman
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Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. He's the author of The Middling Affliction (Caezik, 2022) and Eridani's Crown (UFO Publishing, 2019) fantasy novels.
Over 120 of his short stories appeared in various magazines and anthologies since 2010, including Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, etc. He's the winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction.
He edits the Unidentified Funny Objects series of anthologies and Future Science Fiction Digest. His other projects as editor include The Cackle of Cthulhu (Baen Books), Humanity 2.0 (Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick), Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic (UFO Publishing) and Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse (Deorc Enterprises).
You can visit his official home page and blog at alexshvartsman.com
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Gil Bavel

Great communication, packaging, shipping and the product arrived fast; the work of a master. He's just that good. 'Nuff said.'

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016

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The anthology was shipped well and package was received quickly. Smooth transaction, no problems. Truly a 5-Star experience! I would recommend this seller and product to a friend, and I do so now to you.

Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, publisher and anthologist that knows what he's doing. He delivers a superior product every time and that's one reason among many to do business with him. I will do business with him again, in a heartbeat. He is always in a good mood (which personally I find somewhat annoying, but hey, that's business--I think I'm just jealous) and deals with customers so that their orders go off without a hitch. Although I'm proud to count him among my friends, this review is an honest and sincere one based on the product, attention to detail in the packaging and shipping, and that it arrived in a timely fashion. In fact, I got it long before I expected. My experience as a customer was great.

When involved in any kind of transaction with Alex, you can relax and know you're in good hands.

(I chose alternating persons in the 'How is the story narrated?' category as it's an anthology and there are many different perspectives from story to story.) Excellent editing. Alex is a self-made man, as they say, in the finest entrepreneurial sense, and has worked hard to create a publishing company that delivers peerless content. That's why he's listed as a qualifying market by the SWFA--next to towering giants including Tor and countless other booksellers and magazines. He's out there all by himself, and the SFWA decided to create their new anthology category based on his successful publications; the collections of stories he's released are literally in a category all on their own. He stands alone, and while no man is an Island, Alex is certainly a helluva peninsula. He's a genius, I don't mind telling you, but without the ego that most of us have. I'll do business with him as long as he continues to sell novels and anthologies--hell, he could produce a pop-up book in Japanese about fairy dust and unicorns, and I'd buy it in a heartbeat because I know that he is the best and so is his product--It doesn't get any better than this.

Thanks, Alex, and keep 'em coming! I'll always want at least one!

(A short note of personal disclosure: I was given nothing in exchange for a charitable review. It's all too common these days for these disclaimers to say there was a bribe of money, credit, parts or accessories in return for a good review. That is not the case here. He's just that good. 'Nuff said.")

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Whitt Patrick Pond

For those who like their fantasy heavily laced with humor

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2016

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Edited by Alex Shvartsman, Funny Fantasy is an anthology of previously published humorous fantasy stories that appeared in a number of publications from 2005 through 2015. Shvartsman did a good job of picking the selections as none were stories that I'd read before. Some of the authors, like Esther Friesner and Mike Resnick, are well known veterans within the genre but others are relative newcomers, which makes for a good mix.

The stories that stood out for me include:

"Crumbs" by Esther Friesner is a retelling of the classic fairy tale "Hansel & Gretel" wherein a young knight finds out what _really_ went on between his father, his aunt and that witch in the woods.

"Giantkiller" by G. Scott Huggins is an espionage/From-the-secret-files-of retelling of the classic fairy tale "Jack the Giant Killer" that shows how perspective and spin can not only affect how the story ends up getting told but can also affect the actual events themselves.

"The Blue Corpse Corps" by Jim C. Hines is a short story about a runty near-sighted goblin named Jig who survives by his wits in spite of the considerable decks stacked against him. Jig first appeared in Hines' novel Goblin Quest and has shown up in other stories since.

"Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel" by Shaenon K. Garrity is an amazing bit of world-building centered around the idea of an infinite library and how it would manifest. For me, this story by itself makes the entire anthology worth buying.

I can't say that Funny Fantasy blew me away, but all of the stories made for an engaging read and at least four were a cut above the norm for the genre.

Recommended for anyone who likes humorous fantasy and is looking for something to spend a pleasant couple of hours with.

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Gardengrrl

I Would Buy This Twice Just Cause It's Good.

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2017

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Humor is hard to write. These stories are genuinely funny without going for the crotch or fart jokes. Highly recommend if you like to laugh. Kudos to the writers. Be sure to check out "Chicks With Chainmail" if you like this.

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Turtle

Not Funny Ha-ha

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2016

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It was a good read but clearly there is a huge gap between what I think of as "Funny" and seemingly the rest of the world. That said, the stories were all interesting and imaginative.

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M. P.

Worth the read, but not falling over laughing

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2016

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Some of the stories are funnyish. A couple are very funny. Some I just didn't get. However, it might be me and not the stories. Since Douglas Adams, I just haven't found a really funny writer. Big shoes to follow.

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Very good

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2019

Worth the read

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2016

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A marvelous collection of short stories, all with a fine sense of humor.
Do check it out!

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mikey

Fun and different

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2017

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Because this is an anthology, no single word can best describe the collection.

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Michael D. Broido

Funny Science Fiction Short Stories

Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2018

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Precursor to several funny science fiction anthologies (Unidentified Funny Objects) edited by this author. Included a story by my favorite author. Most stories worth a smile or a chuckle.

Josie Boyce

Some real laughs here and there

Reviewed in Canada on July 11, 2016

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Enjoyable if lacking maybe any real laugh out loud stories, still lots of clever examples of how to place a bit of tongue in the fantasy cheek. Nice breezy collection, i would definitely recommend.

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