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Alex Shvartsman

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ALEX SHVARTSMAN is the author of political fantasy novel Eridani’s Crown and over 120 short stories, published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction in 2014 and was a two-time finalist (2015 & 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction. His translations from Russian have appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Apex, and Strange Horizons. Alex has edited over a dozen anthologies, including the long-running Unidentified Funny Objects series, and he is the editor-in-chief of Future Science Fiction Digest. He resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Alex Shvartsman Books

Songs of the Snow Whale book cover

Songs of the Snow Whale

K.A. Teryna
The Horror at Pooh Corner book cover

The Horror at Pooh Corner

Joe Monson
Kakistocracy book cover

Kakistocracy

Alex Shvartsman
The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI book cover

The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI

Alex Shvartsman
Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers) book cover

Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)

Patrick Parrinder
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 17 book cover

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 17

Alex Shvartsman
Unidentified Funny Objects 9 book cover

Unidentified Funny Objects 9

Alex Shvartsman
The Middling Affliction: The Conradverse Chronicles, Book 1 book cover

The Middling Affliction: The Conradverse Chronicles, Book 1

Alex Shvartsman
Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 14 book cover

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 14

Alex Shvartsman
The Rosetta Archive: Notable Speculative Short Fiction in Translation book cover

The Rosetta Archive: Notable Speculative Short Fiction in Translation

Alex Shvartsman
The Tale of Ak and Humanity book cover

The Tale of Ak and Humanity

Alex Shvartsman
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 12 book cover

Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 12

Alex Shvartsman
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 11 book cover

Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 11

Alex Shvartsman
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 10 book cover

Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 10

Alex Shvartsman
Future Science Fiction Digest Volume 9: The East Asia Special Issue book cover

Future Science Fiction Digest Volume 9: The East Asia Special Issue

Alex Shvartsman
Unidentified Funny Objects 8 book cover

Unidentified Funny Objects 8

Alex Shvartsman
A Dying Planet Short Stories book cover

A Dying Planet Short Stories

Barton Aikman
Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 7 book cover

Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 7

Alex Shvartsman
A Dragon and Her Girl book cover

A Dragon and Her Girl

Max Florschutz
Eridani's Crown book cover

Eridani's Crown

Alex Shvartsman
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