
Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. He's the author of The Middling Affliction (2022) and Eridani's Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Kakistocracy, a sequel to The Middling Affliction, is forthcoming in 2023. Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist (2015 and 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction. His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were published in 2015. His second collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories followed in 2018. Alex is the editor of over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F.
Series
Books

Dark Expanse
Surviving the Collapse
2014

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 15, June 2022
2022

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 16, September 2022
2022

Galaxy's Edge Magazine, Issue 53, November 2021
2021

Cuentos para Algernon
Año III
2015

Chicks and Balances
2015

Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories
2015

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 4, September 2019
2019

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 9, December 2020
The East Asia Special Issue
2020

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 5, December 2019
2019

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 14, March 2022
2022

Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 1
2018

Unidentified Funny Objects 8
2020

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 10, March 2021
2021

Eridani's Crown
2019

HG Wells, Secret Agent
2015

The Monster Hunter Files
2017

The Middling Affliction
2022

InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 62
2018

Eurasian Monsters
2020

Lost Signals of the Terran Republic
2019