Tales of the Unanticipated: The Anthology of Totu Ink

For 24 years, Tales of the Unanticipated has provided you with the widest range in subject and tone in speculative fiction, poetry, and artwork. In TOTU #30, Australian author Stephen Dedman explores the fuss generated by a returning space probe. Eleanor Arnason introduces us to a homeless teddy bear, and Patricia Russo offers a dark tale about what happens when sticky creatures come to town. Barbara Rosen introduces us to a cat with a 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. Douglas J Lane writes about nerd vengeance of the nasty kind. Patricia S. Bowne examines the politics surrounding wood nymphs, while Jason Sanford tells "A Twenty-First Century Fairy Love Story." William Mingin leads us through an epic quest that starts with an unsettled restaurant bill. Canadian Sarah Totton writes about vodka, pumice, and fire-breathing chartered accountants. TOTU #30 includes a prose poem by Ann Peters and Ellen Kuhfeld, partly inspired by the Babylonian Enuma Elish. Ruth Berman, Ann K. Schwader, P M F Johnson, Zoe Gabriel, F.J. Bergmann, Sandra Kasturi, Alexis Vergalla, KC Wilder, and G.O. Clark. The issue is highly enhanced by striking artwork by Rodger Gerberding & Suzanne Clarke, Marge Ballif Simon, Georgie Schnobrich, Barbara Rosen, and this issue's 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 ôMasters of Mystery: Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.ö 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. He 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.