Tales of the Unanticipated #30 By Eric Heideman - editor ISBN 978-0-9844437-0-3 Science Fiction & Fantasy / Horror TOTU Ink · April 2010 7.5 x 9.75 · Paperback · 134 pp · New! Our price     $ 14.95         Quantity   For 24 years, Tales of the Unanticipated has provided the highest quality and the widest range of subject and tone in speculative fiction, poetry, and artwork. In TOTU #30, Australian author Stephen Dedman explores the kerfuffle caused by a returning space probe. A warm tale by Eleanor Arnason relates the reflections of a homeless teddy bear. Barbara Rosen introduces us to a cat with a very special talent, while Catherine Lundoff offers a mysterious Egyptian cat sculpture. Terry Faust and Martha A. Hood serve up two very different looks at what happens when a deity drops by for an extended stay. Patricia S. Bowne examines the politics surrounding wood nymphs, while Jason Sanford tells A Twenty-First Century Fairy Love Story. Canadian Sarah Totton writes about vodka, pumice, and fire-breathing chartered accountants. And many more surprises. TOTU #30 includes a prose poem by Ann Peters and Ellen Kuhfeld inspired by the Babylonian Enuma Elish, and poetry by Ruth Berman, Ann K. Schwader, P M F Johnson, KC Wilder, G.O. Clark, and others. Illustrated by Rodger Gerberding, Margaret Ballif Simon, Georgie Schnobrich, Barbara Rosen, and featured artist, Jules Hart. Eric M. Heideman runs a charming little public library near a really big university. He recently gave a library talk on Masters of Mystery: Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He’s published fiction in Writers of the Future, Volume III; Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine; Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1988; and TOTU #s 9, 12, & 17 (the rascal); and around 200 reviews, essays, interviews, features, and biographical sketches in such places as the Minneapolis Star Tribune, MonsterZine.com, What do I Read Next? (Gale), Twin Cities Reader, and various convention program books. Hang out with him in 2010 in Krushenko’s, his space for SF conversation, at MarsCon, Minicon, WisCon, CONvergence, Diversicon, and Arcana. (And hang out with him at the Western convention, Con-Sarnit Three, Saturday, June 5, ffi: con-sarnit@comcast.net.) Eric lives in Minneapolis with his loyal cats Boris and Johnny, and sojourns when he can to the lakeshore cabin in the deep woods of Northern Michigan that his grandfather built 100 years ago.

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