Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in
international science fiction--now in paperback
The future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science
fiction.
They say the more things change the more they stay the same. But over
the last hundred years, science fiction has changed. Vibrant new
generations of writers have sprung up across the globe, proving the old
adage false. From Ghana to India, from Mexico to France, from Singapore
to Cuba, they draw on their unique backgrounds and culture, changing the
face of the genre one story at a time.
Prepare yourself for a journey through the wildest reaches of the
imagination, to visions of Earth as it might be and the far corners of
the universe. Along the way, you will meet robots and monsters,
adventurers and time travelers, rogues and royalty.
In The Best of World SF, award-winning author Lavie Tidhar acts as
guide and companion to a world of stories, from never-before-seen
originals to award winners, from twenty-three countries and seven
languages. Because the future is coming and it belongs to us all.
Stories:
"Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard; "Debtless" by Chen Qiufan
(trans. from Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks); "Fandom for Robots" by
Vina Jie-Min Prasad; "Virtual Snapshots" by Tlotlo Tsamaase;
"What The Dead Man Said" by Chinelo Onwualu; "Delhi" by Vandana
Singh; "The Wheel of Samsara" by Han Song (trans. from Chinese by
the author); "Xingzhou" by Yi-Sheng Ng; "Prayer" by Taiyo Fujii
(trans. from Japanese by Kamil Spychalski); "The Green Ship" by
Francesco Verso (trans. from Italian by Michael Colbert); "Eyes of
the Crocodile" by Malena Salazar Maciá (trans. from Spanish by
Toshiya Kamei); "Bootblack" by Tade Thompson; "The Emptiness in the
Heart of all Things" by Fabio Fernandes; "The Sun From Both Sides"
by R.S.A. Garcia; "Dump" by Cristina Jurado (trans. from Spanish
by Steve Redwood); "Rue Chair" by Gerardo Horacio Porcayo (trans.
from Spanish by the author); "His Master's Voice" by Hannu
Rajaniemi; "Benjamin Schneider's Little Greys" by Nir Yaniv
(trans. from Hebrew by Lavie Tidhar); "The Cryptid" by Emil H.
Petersen (trans. from Icelandic by the author); "The Bank of Burkina
Faso" by Ekaterina Sedia; "An Incomplete Guide..." by Kuzhali
Manickavel; "The Old Man with The Third Hand" by Kofi Nyameye;
"The Green" by Lauren Beukes; "The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir" by
Karin Tidbeck; "Prime Meridian" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; "If At
First You Don't Succeed" by Zen Cho
