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
Kakistocracy
2023
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
