Best of World SF - Volume 1(Paperback / softback)

Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.''Rare and wonderful'' The Times ''The most important anthology of SF short fiction since Dangerous Visions'' Adam Roberts ''Fizzes with great ideas and wonderful writing... Now this book exists, it feels absurd it didn''t exist sooner'' SFXThe future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction.They say the more things change the more they stay the same. But over the last hundred years, science fiction has changed. Vibrant new generations of writers have sprung up across the globe, proving the old adage false. From Ghana to India, from Mexico to France, from Singapore to Cuba, they draw on their unique backgrounds and culture, changing the face of the genre one story at a time.Prepare yourself for a journey through the wildest reaches of the imagination, to visions of Earth as it might be and the far corners of the universe. Along the way, you will meet robots and monsters, adventurers and time travellers, rogues and royalty.In The Best of World SF, award-winning author Lavie Tidhar acts as guide and companion to a world of stories, from never-before-seen originals to award winners, from twenty-three countries and seven languages. Because the future is coming and it belongs to us all.Stories:''Immersion'' by Aliette de Bodard; ''Debtless'' by Chen Qiufan (trans. from Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks); ''Fandom for Robots'' by Vina Jie-Min Prasad; ''Virtual Snapsho
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