Alex Shvartsman
Legal name: Shvartsman, Alex
Birth place: Odessa, Ukraine
Birth date: 19 November 1975
Language: English
Bibliographic comments:
Biographic comments:
Novels
Eridani’s Crown
2019
< October 2019, 1st edition
UFO Publishing
ISBN 978-0-9992690-2-2
Hardcover, 269 pages
$27.99
Notes:
The Middling Affliction
2022
< May 2022, 1st edition
Caezik SF & Fantasy
ISBN 978-1-64710-054-4
Trade paperback, 240 pages
$16.99
Notes:
• 'The Conradverse Chronicles' series, #1.
Collections
Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories
2015
< February 2015, 1st edition
UFO Publishing
ISBN 978-0-9884328-5-7
Trade paperback, 334 pages
$15.99
Notes:
• Introduction by Ken Liu.
Fiction: Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma // The Rumination on What Isn't // Doubt // Spidersong // Things We Leave
Behind // The Epistolary History // A Shard Glows in Brooklyn // Requiem for a Druid // Nuclear Family // Bedtime
Story on Christmas Eve, 1,000,000 AD // Seven Conversations in Locked Rooms // High-Tech Fairies and the
Pandora Perplexity // The Keepsake Box // The Field Trip // Superior Firepower // Life at the Lake's Shore // The
Take // The Dragon Ships of Tycho // A Brief Respite from Eternity // A Thousand Cuts // Ravages of Time // Price
of Allegiance // The Tell-Tale Ear // The Miracle on Tau Prime // The Tinker Bell Problem // True Love // You Bet //
The Far Side of the Wilderness // Worldbuilding // In the Wake of the Storm // Putting It All Together // Dominoes
Falling // Notes on the Game in Progress, Played Almost to a Draw // Small Magics // Icarus Falls // Coffee in End
Times [with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro] // The Hourglass Brigade // A One-Sided Argument // How Earth Narrowly
Escaped an Invasion from Space // Fate and Other Variables
H. G. Wells: Secret Agent
2015
< July 2015, 1st edition
UFO Publishing
ISBN 978-0-9884328-5-7
Trade paperback, 101 pages
$7.99
Notes:
• Afterword and Annotations by Alex Shvartsman.
Fiction: The Case of the Weather Machine // The Case of the Dirigible Heist // The Case of the Yellow Submarine //
Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma (excerpt)
The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories
2018
< April 2018, 1st edition
UFO Publishing
ISBN 978-1-986220-61-3
Trade paperback, 257 pages
$15.99
Notes:
• Preface by Alex Shvartsman.
• Interior art by Barry Munden.
Fiction: The Golem of Deneb Seven // A Perfect Medium for Unrequited Love // Burying Treasure // Nouns of Nouns:
A Mini Epic // Whom He May Devour // Letting Go // The Fiddle Game // The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
Monsters // Islands in the Sargasso // Catalogue of Items in the Chess Exhibition at the Humanities Museum,
Pre-Enlightenment Wing // Fifteen Minutes // Masquerade Night // The Poet-Kings and the Word Plague // Golf to
the Death // Staff Meeting, as Seen by the Spam Filter // nvasive Species // One in a Million // Grains of Wheat //
The Ganthu Eggs // The Practical Guide to Punching Nazis // Dante's Unfinished Business // Forty-Seven Dictums
of Warfare // How Gaia and the Guardian Saved the World // He Who Watches // Recall Notice // Dreidel of Dread:
The Very Cthulhu Chanukah // Die, Miles Cornbloom // A Man in an Angel Costume // Future Fragments, Six
Seconds Long // Parametrization of Complex Weather Patterns for Two Variables // The Race for Arcadia
Kakistocracy
2023
< First edition, 17 October 2023
Caezik SF & Fantasy
ISBN 978-1-64710-082-7
Trade paperback, 252 pages
$17.99
Notes:
• 'The Conradverse Chronicles' series, #2.
