| Description |
649 pages ; 24 cm |
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"An Ad Astra Book" |
| Contents |
The Bahrain Underground Bazaar / Nadia Afifi -- The ten-percent thief / Lavanya Lakshminarayan -- At Desk 9501... / Frances Ogamba -- Milagroso / Isabel Yap -- Bring your own spoon / Saad Z. Hossain -- Blue Grey Blue / Yukimi Ogawa. -- Your multicolored life / Xing He ; translated by Andy Dudak -- The Easthound / Nalo Hopkinson -- Dead man, awake, sing to the sun! / Pan Haitian ; translated by Joel Martinsen -- Salvaging gods / Jacques Barcia -- The next move / Edmundo Paz Soldán ; translated by Jessica Sequeira -- The child of clay / Dilman Dila -- To set at twilight in a land of reeds / Natalia Theodoridou -- The beast has died / Bef ; translated by Brian Price -- Twenty about robots / Alberto Chimal ; translated by Fionn Petch -- The regression test / Wole Talabi -- Kakak / William Tham Wai Liang -- Beyond these stars other tribulations of love / Usman T. Malik -- A flaw in the works / Julie Nováková -- When we die on Mars / Cassandra Khaw -- The mighty slinger / Tobias S. Buckell and Karen Lord -- Corialis / T.L. Huchu -- The substance of ideas / Clelia Farris ; translated by Rachel Cordasco -- Sleeping beauties / Agnieszka Halas -- Waking Nydra / Samit Basu -- Between the firmaments / Neon Yang -- Whale snows down / Kim Bo-Young ; translated by Sophie Bowman -- The gardens of Babylon / Hassan Blasim ; translated by Jonathan Wright -- The Farctory / K.A. Teryna ; translated by Alex Shvartsman. |
| Summary |
"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."--Publisher website. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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| Genre |
Science fiction.
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Science fiction.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Science fiction.
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| Added Author |
Tidhar, Lavie, editor.
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| Added Title |
Best of world science fiction. Volume 2 |
| ISBN |
9781803280318 (hbk.) : $39.95 |
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180328031X (hbk.) |
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9781803280325 (XTPB) |
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1803280328 (XTPB) |
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