Table of Contents: EXPLAINING CTHULHU TO GRANDMA AND OTHER STORIES by Alex Shvartsman
Here’s the the table of contents for Alex Shvartsman’s upcoming jam-packed short fiction collection Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories, which features a spiffy cover designed by Emerson Matsuuchi featuring cool art by Dixon Leavitt, and an Introduction by Ken Liu.
Here’s the book description:
40 short stories by Alex Shvartsman, winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction.
- An elder god trapped in a pocket dimension turns up in the world’s oldest magic pawn shop.
- A cybernetically-enhanced assassin who can’t feel pain faces a dangerous adversary.
- A computer hacker and a mystic team up to break into the Book of Fate and change their futures.
- Vatican investigators are called to examine a miracle on another planet.
…and much, much more!
The e-book includes 23 bonus stories not featured in the printed edition, for a total of 63 stories! Each story includes author notes, written for this collection.
Here’s the full table of contents for both editions…
- “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”
- “The Hourglass Brigade (*)”
- “A One-Sided Argument”
- “How Earth Narrowly Escaped an Invasion from Space”
- “Fate and Other Variables”
The bonus content (in e-book only) also includes the following
- “The Skeptic”
- “Good Advice”
- “In Service of a Greater Cause”
- “The Sgovari Stratagem”
- “A Gnomish Gift”
- “Pel’s Crusade”
- “A Better Tomorrow”
- “Hunter”
- “A Tear in the Web”
- “The Traveling Fair”
- “The Last Incantation”
- “An Indelible Feast”
- “The Storyteller”
- “One Thousand and First”
- “Manna From Heaven”
- “On the Last Afternoon”
- “Time Away”
- “The Getaway”
- “Those Who Can’t Do”
- “Number Station”
- “How to Locate and Capture Time Travelers: A Memo”
- “Chill”
- “Tales of the Elopus”
Holy wow, that is jam packed! and I love the title!