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Alex Shvartsman
Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, game designer, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. Over 80 of his short stories appeared in various magazines and anthologies since 2010. He's the winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction.He edits the Unidentified Funny Objects series of... show more



Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, game designer, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. Over 80 of his short stories appeared in various magazines and anthologies since 2010. He's the winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction.He edits the Unidentified Funny Objects series of anthologies. His other projects as editor include Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic and Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse.You can visit his official home page and blog at alexshvartsman.com

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Birth date: November 19, 1975
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 6 years ago
The best story in this collection is the first by Ken Liu. Liu makes good use of golem lore and applies it to a family vacation. It was also wonderful that the chosen one was a girl. Esther Fresiner's "Service Charge" and J. W. Alden's "Item Not Described" will both do your soul a world of good,...
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Elentarri's Book Blog rated it 7 years ago
This book is a collection of 29 humorous science fiction and fantasy stories by a variety of authors. There were about 3 stories I didn't much like, but the rest were amusing or took a different perspective on old tropes. This book is perfect for those between book moments or when you just want so...
Yzabel
Yzabel rated it 9 years ago
[I received a copy of this book through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.]This collection of short stories revolve around the theme of “towers”, and more specifically towers of the dark kind: towers of sorcery, alien towers in strange world, sinister lighthouses, towers of the Underworld....
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