The Best of World SF: Volume 3

by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)

Overview

SHORTLISTED FOR 'BEST COLLECTION' AT THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARDS 2023

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781804548035
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	10/12/2023
Series:	Best of World SF
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	6.45(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.80(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Contents
Diana Rahim A Minor Kalahari
Daniela Tomova Behind Her, Trailing Like Butterfly Wings
Timi Odueso Cloudgazer
Mandisi Nkomo The EMO Hunter
Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas Tloque Nahuaque
translated by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
M.H. Ayinde The Walls of Benin City
Luo Longxiang The Foodie Federation's Dinosaur Farm
translated by Andy Dudak
Thomas Olde Heuvelt The Day the World Turned Upside Down
translated by Lia Belt
Indrapramit Das The Worldless
Andrea Chapela Now You Feel It
translated by Emma Törzs
Fadzlishah Johanabas Act of Faith
Cheryl S. Ntumy Godmother
Zahra Mukhi I Call Upon the Night as Witness
Dmitry Glukhovsky Sulfur
translated by Marian Schwartz
Efe Okogu Proposition 23
Fargo Tbakhi Root Rot
Chen Qian Catching the K Beast
translated by Carmen Yiling Yan
Elena Pavlova Two Moons
translated by Kalin M. Nenov and Elena Pavlova
Choyeop Kim Symbiosis Theory
translated by Joungmin Lee Comfort
Eugenia Triantafyllou My Country is a Ghost
Nora Schinnerl Old People's Folly
Christine Lucas Echoes of a Broken Mind
Vida Cruz Have Your #Hugot Harvested at This Diwata-
Owned Café
Sheikha Helawy Order C345
translated by Raphael Cohen
Vraiux Dorós Dark Star
translated by Toshiya Kamei
Dean Francis Alfar A Door Opens...
Mário Coelho Ootheca
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Where The Trains Turn
translated by Liisa Rantalaiho
About the Authors
About the Translators
Extended Copyright
Introduction
 

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the two previous volumes:

"Another outstanding assortment of international sci-fi shorts, showcasing 29 thought-provoking stories written during the past 10 years. His claim that these tales represent the “cutting edge of science fiction” rings true throughout. . . . This sweeping survey rewards the time it demands of its readers with a bold and powerful argument for non-Anglophone SF’s potential to push the genre’s boundaries." —Publishers Weekly starred review

'This handsome volume from Head of Zeus is a major step on a 45-year journey to bring global speculative fiction to Anglophone attention ... The print edition of The Best of World SF: Volume 1 is truly a thing of beauty, providing gravitas and a wider audience for the authors it collects ... There are many striking stories in the collection ... This anthology is just the start of a whole new game for speculative fiction authors around the world' LA Review of Books

"This excellent anthology proves editor Tidhar’s assertion that science fiction should no longer be thought of as 'white, male, and American'. . . . Worthwhile both as a survey of international sci-fi and on a story-by-story level, this wonderful anthology should be a hit with any sci-fi fan.” —Publishers Weekly

★ "All of these stories come together to create a rich and well-curated collection full of surprising narratives and vast worlds that will delight any science fiction fan." —Booklist, starred review

"Although science fiction imagines diverse, imaginative, and frightening futures, genre anthologies rarely achieve the brilliant range and diversity of voices of The Best of World SF: Volume 1 ... The anthology brings a fresh, revolutionary perspective in that its selections are intentionally curated to suggest that the horizon is both closer and brighter than Western readers might think. Vital and exciting, The Best of World SF blows the blast panels off the dusty, well-worn tropes of popular science fiction and lets in a dazzling burst of lunar light." —Foreword Reviews

"Stories like these are the ones you sometimes want to foist upon readers who claim not to like SF. . . . I look forward to future volumes." —Gary K. Wolfe, Locus
 

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