Unidentified Funny Objects is a collection of humorous science fiction and fantasy. Packed with laughs, it has 29 stories ranging from lighthearted whimsy to the wild and zany. Inside you’ll find a zombear, tweeting aliens, down-on-their-luck vampires, time twisting belly dancers, moon nazis, stoned computers, omnivorous sex-maniac pandas, and a spell-casting Albert Einstein. INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STORIES: “El and Al vs. Himmler’s Horrendous Horde from Hell” by Mike Resnick “The Alchemist’s Children” by Nathaniel Lee “Moon Landing” by Lavie Tidhar “Fight Finale from the Near Future” by James Beamon “Love Thy Neighbors” by Ken Liu “The Alien Invasion As Seen In The Twitter Stream of @dweebless” by Jake Kerr “Dreaming Harry” by Stephanie Burgis “The Last Dragon Slayer” by Chuck Rothman “The Real Thing” by Don Sakers “2001 Revisited via 1969″ by Bruce Golden “The Working Stiff” by Matt Mikalatos “Temporal Shimmies” by Jennifer Pelland “One-Hand Tantra” by Ferrett Steinmetz “Of Mat and Math” by Anatoly Belilovsky “Timber!” by Scott Almes “Go Karts of the Gods” by Michael Kurland “No Silver Lining” by Zach Shephard “If You Act Now” by Sergey Lukyanenko “My Kingdom for a Horse” by Stephen D. Rogers “First Date” by Jamie Lackey “All I Want for Christmas” by Siobhan Gallagher “Venus of Willendorf” by Deborah Walker “An Unchanted Sword” by Jeff Stehman “The Day They Repossessed my Zombies” by K.G. Jewell “The Fifty One Suitors of Princess Jamatpie” by Leah Cypess “The Secret Life of Sleeping Beauty” by Charity Tahmaseb “The Velveteen Golem” by David Sklar “The Worm’s Eye View” by Jody Lynn Nye “Cake from Mars” by Marko Kloos

The fourth volume of the annual Unidentified Funny Objects series features the theme of dark humor. What happens when you ask some of the genre's masters to interpret this theme? The enclosed twenty-three darkly humorous tales range from black comedy to biting satire to morbid irony and everything in between. Inside this book you'll find Faustian bargains gone awry, time-traveling ghosts, flawed supervillains, talking hamsters, and much more.

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! \* Superheroes mired in government bureaucracy. \* Cat cat-burglars. \* Grandmotherly golems. \* Literal-minded self-driving cars. \* Evil overlords retired in Florida. \* Indifferent aliens.

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! In this volume you'll \* Overworked fairies distributing swords. \* Alien yeti slackers \* Elf bakers \* Absconded books \* Superhero dance battles \* Matchmakers ... in spaaace! This anthology contains the following “The Hero of Small Things” by Amanda Saville “Chai Noon” by Esther Friesner “If Pages Could Blush” by Kyle A. Massa “The Time Loop Device is Counting Down” by Beth Goder “Crouching Swan Hidden Polka” by Jim C Hines “Sgt. Yeti” by Gini Koch “The Great Beyond Commands” by John Wiswell “The Second Wish” by James Beamon “These Three Aliens Walk into a Bar” by Simon R. Green “Our Most Sincere Apologies to the People of Brazil” by Jane Espenson “Liability Insurance Policy for Immortals, Cryptids, and Other Magical Annual Newsletter” by Tina Connolly “The Shadchen of Venus” by Lavie Tidhar “Cory Sucks” by Auston Habershaw “Sunnyside Daycare Employees’ Chat Log, Post Alien Takeover” by Amanda Helms “Cooking Up Trouble” by C. Flynt “Right to Remain Silent” by Jody Lynn Nye “Auntie Elsie’s Compleat Guide to Heartbreak” by Tim Pratt “The Troll Bridge” by Adam Gaylord “Do Gumshoes Dream of Electric Sleep” by Dave Vierling “Hell’s Bureaucracy” by David Hankins “A Crisis of Fate” by Zach Shephard