2024 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST, BEST ANTHOLOGY
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781804548035
Number of pages: 672
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
This is exactly what a book of science fiction should be: confronting and examining a range of issues, in varied times and places, through a variety of technological and social lenses - Locus
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
"Best" is a word that is often used too freely, but in the case of "The Best of World SF" I can't imagine a better word. Travelling the world through fiction is always fun and entertaining,... More
This was a great collection of short stories. Each story had a brief description on why the editor chose it and it's history. I am not a big sci-fi reader but I like to tip my ties into the world to sample some... More
This type of collections is an excellent way to discover new sci-fi gems and new to me authors. There's a lot of fascinating and gripping story, Lavie Tidhar did an excellent job in selecting this hidden gems and... More
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