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Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories
| Author: | Alex Shvartsman |
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UFO Publishing, 2015 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
40 short stories by Alex Shvartsman, winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction.
When a snow globe-shaped pocket dimension containing the Great Old One ends up in the world's oldest magic pawn shop, proprietor Sylvia experiences the difficulties of Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma.
Sylvia's adventures continue in High-Tech Fairies and the Pandora Perplexity. A mysterious object hidden inside a Pandora's box is sought after by the Fae. Will it go to the Tooth Fairy--a short, brutish half-elf who works as an enforcer for the Unseelie Court--or Puck, the iPhone-wielding, social media-addicted ambassador of Queen Titania?
A cybernetically-enhanced assassin who can't feel pain faces his most dangerous adversary yet, and discovers that an operative's greatest weakness is Doubt. Conrad Brent is an agent of The Watch; he protects the ordinary residents of Brooklyn from supernatural threats. Learn his greatest secret in A Shard Glows in Brooklyn, then find out what happens when he must confront a toupee-wearing real estate magnate with a penchant for pasting his name everywhere and firing people, in Requiem for a Druid.
Humanity must choose sides in the first intergalactic war in recorded history. Will they remain loyal as the junior members of the Galactic Union, or throw their lot in with the rebels in hopes of acquiring advanced technologies? What is the ultimate Price of Allegiance? In Fate and Other Variables, a computer hacker and a mystic team up to break into the metaphysical Book of Fate and change their futures.
Want more? How about:
- Vatican investigators are called to examine a miracle on another planet.
- Giant alien, telepathic spiders that sing.
- Spaceships that look like dragons.
- Love strong enough to extinguish stars during the heat death of the universe.
- A demon that uses a pentagram to summon an accountant from New Jersey.
- Ward magic powered by the size of the practitioner's library.
- An invading armada of alien space cats.
- and the strangest poker game you've ever heard of!
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