Unidentified Funny Objects 6 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Alex Shvartsman (Author), Alan Dean Foster (Author), Jack Campbell (Author),

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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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9 hours and 6 minutes
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Alex Shvartsman, see all
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Escape Artists Inc, see all
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September 23, 2019
Language

English
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UFO Publishing
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B07Y2F36R1
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	9 hours and 6 minutes
Author	Alex Shvartsman, Alan Dean Foster, Jack Campbell, Esther Friesner, Ken Liu, Jody Lynn Nye, Mike Resnick, Laura Resnick, Gini Koch
Narrator	Escape Artists Inc, Marguerite Kenner, Alastair Stuart
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	September 23, 2019
Publisher	UFO Publishing
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07Y2F36R1
Best Sellers Rank	#260,897 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #432 in Fantasy Anthologies & Short Stories (Audible Books & Originals) #885 in Science Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories #3,901 in Fantasy Anthologies

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RICHARD Y

Stories just not funny. Strange

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2018

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Stories just not funny. Strange, even amateurish, but not funny. Caught myself thinking the stories were "cute" like a kid's drawing.

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Fun sci_fu

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2017

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Love this book series and always look for more. If you want to entertained I recommend these books. The stories are chuckle to laugh out loud.

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Doc D

They're getting funnier.

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2018

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Funny short stories by different authors. Some of the stories are coninuios from the other books in the series. Pretty good.

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MW read-a-holic

Great fun, as always!

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2020

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These collections are always fun, and this one is more so than most.

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Grady Lusk

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2018

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I always enjoy a weird & funny stories, and this book has a bunch of 'em.

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Tony & Tracy Kolodziej

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2018

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funny series of SF stories

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Mrs. Mica

Wonderful collection, expertly arranged

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2017

In UFO6 (Unidentified Funny Objects 6), editor Alex Shvartsman once again delivers the high quality comedy we've come to expect from his UFO series. A good portion of UFO6 titles utilize epistolary formats for a non-traditional punchline—these stories are otherwise quite unlike each other. A wonderful collection, expertly arranged.

Stories range from the self-explanatory “Twenty-Nine Responses to Inquiries About my Craigslist Post: Alien Spaceship for Sale. $200, You Haul” by Tina Connolly to the surprisingly touching “A Crawlspace Full of Prizes” by Bill Ferris, which is a bit like if your life were a video game, while being nothing like other stories about video-game lives.

UFO6 includes heavy-hitters Jim C. Hines with parody “A Game of Goblins,” Jack Campbell with “Agent of Chaos,” in which a writer's muse forces her on a trek deep into the mountains where she coincidentally encounters Gothlack, God of Chaos, Alan Dean Foster with a Mad Amos Malone story, “A Mountain Man and a Cat Walk Into a Bar,” and Mike Resnick with a Harry the Book story, “The Great Manhattan Eat-Off,” which is as perfectly ridiculous as it sounds. If you've never read Mad Amos Malone or Harry the Book, you're still in for a treat with these two. And let's not forget Ken Liu, whose “An Open Letter to the Sentient AI Who Has Announced its Intention to Take Over the Earth” drips with sleaze.

On the hard science fiction side of things, “The Breakdown of the Parasite/Host Relationship” by Paul R. Hardy shows how a symbiote and its host can degenerate into petty arguments as fast as your roommate. The Captain reluctantly attempts to intervene as disagreements turn violent and regulations fly out the spaceport. “Display of Affection” by P. K. Sambeaux serves up a healthy dose of creepy in a world where everyone's wired into the net. Guy can't take any more of it when his mother dies, and—well, you'll never look at a museum quite the same afterward. In “Common Scents” by Jody Lynn Nye, symbiote Dr. K't'ank helps host Dena Malone solve a murder mystery with his love of stink. “Alexander Outland: Space Jockey” by Gini Koch may make you wonder if a comedic anthology could, indeed, be complete without space pirates and explosions. “Approved Expense” by David Vierling gives us a chance to live vicariously through dimension-hopping Special Operative Morgan T. Graymael as he explains his itemizations to The Budget and Accounting Administration.

Israel's lost tribe returns on a spaceship in “Lost and Found” by Laura Resnick, in which they are quite shocked to learn what's become of their temple. Esther Friesner introduces readers to the mythical Yiddish town of fools with “From This She Makes a Living?”—along with some interesting phrases, uttered at the discovery of a people-eating dragon come to town. Both Friesner and Resnick's stories treat religion with whimsical irreverence.

“Dear Joyce” by Langley Hyde turns all your fantasy tropes on their head with an opinionated advice columnist in this parody reminiscent of LOTR, if Frodo had written to Joyce. “Return to Sender” by Melissa Mead takes us back to folktale classics with letters written by giants of the fe-fi-fo-fum persuasion. “An Evil Opportunity Employer” by Lawrence Wayt-Evans pokes fun at both lawyers and secret identities as our hero tells a henchmen that he should have read the contract. “The Friendly Necromancer” by Rod M. Santos shows us the proper way to deal with those pesky Knights and Knaves riddles—with violence. Santos delivers an excellent blend of characterization, quest-like trickery, and irreverent humor.

Told in first person by the morally-ambiguous scientist who unleashed chaos on the world through humanity's greed and self-loathing, “Impress Me, Then We'll Take About the Money” by Tatiana Ivanova, Translated by Alex Shvartsman, closes out UFO6 with a bang.

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Michael C. Haensel

Some good, but leave out the politics please

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2019

As with most anthologies, this is a mix of some good stories and some not-so-good. Which is which will vary by the individual reader. Another reviewer commented these were mostly "cute" or "strange" rather than outright funny - I agree.

One story read as thinly-veiled jabs at the current (as of 2017) political administration of the U.S. That really put me off, and will likely put other readers off too.

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