The Best of World SF
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The Best of World SF
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.
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, youβll 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 collectionβs 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 itβs all in the Best of World SF series.
Series: Best of World SF
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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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