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The third annual instalment to the 'excellent, lovingly curated (Financial Times) The Best of World SF series
The Best of World SF series is a fixture on the global science fiction scene. If you want to find the most exciting SF authors writing today, look no further.
In this third instalment, you'll discover alien artists, rioting dinosaurs, shape-shifting rabbits, heartbreak-harvesting cafes and one robot on a quest for meaning. You will be transported to the stars and back down to Earth and sideways, with the order of the world turned upside down.
Featuring authors from Austria, Bulgaria, China, Finland, Ghana, Greece, India, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, the Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Singapore and South Africa, this collection's stories have been selected by award-winning writer, editor and World SF expert Lavie Tidhar.
The most exciting science fiction on the planet comes from all corners of the globe. And it's all in the Best of World SF series.
About the author
Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of
Osama (2011),
The Violent Century (2013), the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning
A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), and the Campbell Award-winning
Central Station (2016), in addition to many other works and several other awards. He works across genres, combining detective and thriller modes with poetry, science fiction and historical and autobiographical material. His work has been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by the
Guardian and the
Financial Times, and to Kurt Vonnegut's by
Locus.
Summary
28 new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction, selected by Lavie Tidhar.
Foreword
Twenty-eight new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.
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Reviews for The Best of World SF series:
'We need this anthology, and we need editors like Tidhar' The Times
'An excellent, lovingly curated collection' Financial Times
'Just the start of a whole new game for speculative fiction authors around the world' LA Review of Books
'An outstanding assortment of international sci-fi shorts. a bold and powerful argument for non-Anglophone SF's potential to push the genre's boundaries' Publishers Weekly Starred Review
