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The Best of World SF: Volume 2 edited by Lavie Tidhar

Hardcover – Head of Zeus – Nov 2022 – 649 pages

Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction. The second annual instalment to The Best of World SF Volume 1, this collection of twenty-nine stories, including eight original and exclusive additions, represents the state of the art in international science fiction.

Navigating around the globe, The Best of World SF Volume 2 features writers from:

• Bahrain,
• Bangladesh,
• Barbados,
• Bolivia,
• Brazil,
• China,
• Czech Republic,
• Greece,
• Grenada,
• India,
• Iraq,
• Italy,
• Jamaica,
• Japan,
• Korea,
• Malaysia,
• Mexico,
• Nigeria,
• Pakistan,
• The Philippines,
• Poland,
• Russia,
• Singapore,
• Uganda
• and Zimbabwe.

Each story has been selected by World SF expert and award-winning author Lavie Tidhar. Taking us into space – Mars at first, then the stars – and then back to a strange, transformed Earth via AI, gods, aliens and the undead, the collection traces the ever-changing meaning of the genre from some of the most exciting voices writing today.

This is not a retrospective of what science fiction around the world used to look like. This is a snapshot of what some of it looks like now. And it’s never been more exciting.