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The Apex Book of World SF, Vol 1 (Apex World of Speculative Fiction)
The Apex Book of World SF Vol 1 - Apex World of Speculative Fiction Author:Lavie Tidhar (Editor) The Apex Book of World SF, edited by Lavie Tidhar, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from Asia, Eastern Europe and around the world. The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Phi... more »lippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells a tale breathtakingly vast and varied, whether caught in the ghosts of the past or entangled in a postmodern age. Among the spirits, technology, and deep recesses of the human mind, stories abound. Kites sail to the stars, technology transcends physics, and wheels cry out in the night. Memories come and go like fading echoes and a train carries its passengers through more than simple space and time. Dark and bright, beautiful and haunting, the stories herein represent speculative fiction from a sampling of the finest authors from around the world.
Contents:
S.P. Somtow (Thailand): The Bird Catcher
Jetse de Vries (Netherlands): Transcendence Express
Guy Hasson (Israel): The Levantine Experiments
Han Song (China): The Wheel of Samsara
Kaaron Warren (Australia/Fiji): Ghost Jail
Yang Ping (China): Wizard World
Dean Francis Alfar (Philippines): L’Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)
Nir Yaniv (Israel): Cinderers
Jamil Nasir (Palestine): The Allah Stairs
Tunku Halim (Malaysia): Biggest Baddest Bomoh
Aliette de Bodard (France): The Lost Xuyan Bride
Kristin Mandigma (Philippines): Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang
Aleksandar ÂŽiljak (Croatia): An Evening in the City Coffehouse, With Lydia on My Mind
Anil Menon (India): Into the Night
Mélanie Fazi (France, translated by Christopher Priest): Elegy
Zoran ÂŽivković (Serbia, translated by Alice Copple-Tošić): Compartments