{"product_id":"the-best-of-world-sf-volume-1-paperback","title":"The Best of World SF: Volume 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLavie Tidhar\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Rare and wonderful' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The most important anthology of SF short fiction since \u003ci\u003eDangerous Visions\u003c\/i\u003e' Adam Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fizzes with great ideas and wonderful writing... Now this book exists, it feels absurd it didn't exist sooner' \u003ci\u003eSFX\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrepare 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Best of World SF\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStories: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Immersion' by \u003cb\u003eAliette de Bodard\u003c\/b\u003e; 'Debtless' by \u003cb\u003eChen Qiufan\u003c\/b\u003e (trans. from Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks); 'Fandom for Robots' by \u003cb\u003eVina Jie-Min Prasad\u003c\/b\u003e; 'Virtual Snapshots' by \u003cb\u003eTlotlo Tsamaase\u003c\/b\u003e; 'What The Dead Man Said' by \u003cb\u003eChinelo Onwualu\u003c\/b\u003e; 'Delhi' by \u003cb\u003eVandana Singh\u003c\/b\u003e; 'The Wheel of Samsara' by \u003cb\u003eHan Song\u003c\/b\u003e (trans. from Chinese by the author); 'Xingzhou' by \u003cb\u003eYi-Sheng Ng\u003c\/b\u003e; 'Prayer' by \u003cb\u003eTaiyo Fujii\u003c\/b\u003e (trans. from Japanese by Kamil Spychalski); 'The Green Ship' by \u003cb\u003eFrancesco Verso\u003c\/b\u003e (trans. from Italian by Michael Colbert); 'Eyes of the Crocodile' by \u003cb\u003eMalena Salazar Maciá\u003c\/b\u003e (trans. from Spanish by Toshiya Kamei); 'Bootblack' by \u003cb\u003eTade Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e; 'The Emptiness in the Heart of all Things' by \u003cb\u003eFabio Fernandes\u003c\/b\u003e; 'The Sun From Both Sides' by \u003cb\u003eR.S.A. Garcia\u003c\/b\u003e; 'Dump' by \u003cb\u003eCristina Jurado\u003c\/b\u003e (trans. from Spanish by Steve Redwood); 'Rue Chair' by \u003cb\u003eGerardo Horacio Porcayo\u003c\/b\u003e (trans. from Spanish by the author); 'His Master's Voice' by \u003cb\u003eHannu Rajaniemi\u003c\/b\u003e; 'Benjamin Schneider's Little Greys' by \u003cb\u003eNir Yaniv\u003c\/b\u003e (trans. from Hebrew by Lavie Tidhar); 'The Cryptid' by \u003cb\u003eEmil H. Petersen\u003c\/b\u003e (trans. from Icelandic by the author); 'The Bank of Burkina Faso' by \u003cb\u003eEkaterina Sedia\u003c\/b\u003e; 'An Incomplete Guide...' by \u003cb\u003eKuzhali Manickavel\u003c\/b\u003e; 'The Old Man with The Third Hand' by \u003cb\u003eKofi Nyameye\u003c\/b\u003e; 'The Green' by \u003cb\u003eLauren Beukes\u003c\/b\u003e; 'The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir' by \u003cb\u003eKarin Tidbeck\u003c\/b\u003e; 'Prime Meridian' by \u003cb\u003eSilvia Moreno-Garcia\u003c\/b\u003e; 'If At First You Don't Succeed' by \u003cb\u003eZen Cho\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOsama\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eThe Violent Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eA Man Lies Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and the Campbell Award-winning \u003ci\u003eCentral Station\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and to Kurt Vonnegut's by \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eLavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOsama\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eThe Violent Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eA Man Lies Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and the Campbell Award-winning \u003ci\u003eCentral Station\u003c\/i\u003e (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. 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