Win a Paperback Copy of the Unidentified Funny Objects Anthology

 To celebrate the release of the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology I'm holding a competition. Leave a comment or even better tell me a joke in the comments. I'll pick a winner at random.

Deadline: December 23rd. We don't want to be hanging around all day with this one do we?

UFO is a collection of humorous science fiction and fantasy. it  includes a story from me, featuring one of my favourite tropes, the prehistoric Venus figures.

And I'm rubbing paper shoulders with such writers as Ken Lui, Jake Kerr, Mike  Resnick, others!

Book content:

“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

 Web content:

“The Ogre King and the Piemaker” by Tarl Kudrick – September
“You Bet” by Alex Shvartsman – October
“Mr. Terwilliger Confesses” by Amanda C. Davis – November
“Demonology for Nerds” by Andrew F. Rey – December
“A Midnight Carnival at Sunset” by Terra LeMay – January
“Morte Cuisine” by Kara Dalkey – February

For those of you who can't wait, you can buy it directly from the publisher here, or at all the usual places.

A New Science of Navigation

I'd also like to give a shout out to this short first novel from Martin Jenkins. It's a poetic mix of sex and politics, the magical counter-class in North London  radios speaking across the decades. It really is quite extraordinary. I loved the poetic elements, phrases and images layering like incantations across the page. The production is lovely, with images scattered throughout the text. At only 135 pages it's a short, but intense read. Martin's a friend of mine (should I have mention that? Does it negate the review?). Who'd have thought there'd be two writing parents in my daughter's class. You can buy it here from Amazon.