The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 2

by Lavie Tidhar (Editor), Will Eliot, Nnedi Okorafor

Overview

In The Apex Book of World SF 2, editor Lavie Tidhar collects short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors from Africa and Latin America.

An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist. In The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award-nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist fantasy from Russia and epic fantasy from Poland; near-future tales from Mexico and Finland, as well as cyberpunk from South Africa. In this anthology one gets a glimpse of the complex and fascinating world of genre fiction-from all over our world.

Featuring work from noted international authors such as Will Elliot, Hannu Rajaniemi, Shweta Narayan, Lauren Beukes, Ekaterina Sedia, Nnedi Okorafor, and Andrzej Sapkowski.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781937009359
Publisher:	Apex Book Company
Publication date:	08/18/2015
Series:	Apex World of Speculative Fiction , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lavie Tidhar is the author of the BSFA Award nominated novel Osama (2011), and of the steampunk Bookman Histories trilogy, comprising The Bookman (2010), Camera Obscura (2011), and The Great Game (2012). His other works include the linked story collection HebrewPunk (2007), novellas An Occupation of Angels (2005), Cloud Permutations (2010), Jesus & the Eightfold Path (2011), and Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God (2011). He is also the author of the picture book Going to the Moon (2012). He edited the first volume of this anthology series, The Apex Book of World SF (2009) and maintains the World SF Blog at worldsf.wordpress.com, for which he was nominated for a World Fantasy Award.