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The Best of World SF

Volume 3
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2024 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST, BEST ANTHOLOGYSHORTLISTED 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... Read More
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Twenty-eight new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.

Twenty-eight new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.

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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.

Series: Best of World SF

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804548059

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book

Contributors:

  • Edited by Lavie Tidhar

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 44.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 480g

Pages: 672

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.

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