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Now firmly established as the benchmark anthology series of international speculative fiction, volume 4 of The Apex Book of World SF sees debut editor Mahvesh Murad bring fresh new eyes to her selection of stories. From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and subverted Japanese folktales, from love in the time of drones to teenagers at the end of the world, the stories in this volume showcase the best of contemporary speculative fiction, wherever it's written. "Important to the future of not only international authors, but the entire SF community." -Strange Horizons Featuring: Vajra Chandrasekera (Sri Lanka) - "Pockets Full of Stones" Yukimi Ogawa (Japan) - "In Her Head, In Her Eyes" Zen Cho (Malaysia) - "The Four Generations of Chang E" Shimon Adaf (Israel) - "Like A Coin Entrusted in Faith" (Translated by the author) Celeste Rita Baker (Virgin Islands) - "Single Entry" Nene Ormes (Sweden) - "The Good Matter" (Translated Lisa J Isaksson and Nene Ormes) JY Yang (Singapore) - "Tiger Baby" Isabel Yap (Philippines) - "A Cup of Salt Tears" Usman T Malik (Pakistan) - "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" Kuzhali Manickavel (India) - "Six Things We Found During the Autopsy" Elana Gomel (Israel) - "The Farm" Haralambi Markov (Bulgaria) - "The Language of Knives" Sabrina Huang - "Setting Up Home" (Translated by Jeremy Tiang) Sathya Stone (Sri Lanka) - "Jinki and the Paradox" Johann Thorsson (Iceland) - "First, Bite a Finger" Dilman Dila (Uganda) - "How My Father Became a God" Swabir Silayi (Kenya) - "Colour Me Grey" Deepak Unnikrishnan (The Emirates) - "Sarama" Chinelo Onwualu (Nigeria) - "The Gift of Touch" Saad Z. Hossain (Bangaldesh) - "Djinns Live by the Sea" Bernardo Fern ndez (Mexico) - "The Last Hours of the Final Days" (Translated by the author) Natalia Theodoridou (Greece) - "The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul" Samuel Marolla (Italy) - "Black Tea" (Translated by Andrew Tanzi) Julie Novakova (Czech Republic) - "The Symphony of Ice and Dust" Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Netherlands) - "The Boy Who Cast No Shadow" (Translated by Laura Vroomen) Sese Yane (Kenya) - "The Corpse" Tang Fei - "Pepe" (Translated by John Chu) Roc o Rinc n (Spain) - "The Lady of the Soler Colony" (Translated by James and Marian Womack) Cover art and design by Sarah Anne Langton.… (más)
The new volume of The Apex Book of World SF series is another solid and varied anthology. Although I knew around a third of the authors and I had already read six of the stories, I had never heard about half of the authors compiled here and I was looking forward to discovering some new interesting and promising writers. And although I didn’t really care about a third of the stories, the other two thirds were engaging enough to make this volume worth reading. The title is a bit misleading though, as you’ll find science fiction stories here, but also fantasy, magic realism, weird, horror, surrealism… which is perfectly fine with me as it makes the anthology extremely varied. My standouts among my rereads were the stories by Zen Cho and Vajra Chandrasekera, two authors I know pretty well, as I’ve translated and included some of their stories in the anthologies I’ve edited myself. Among the stories that were new to me, I particularly enjoyed those by Shimon Adaf, Saad Z. Hossain, Sabrina Huang, Julie Novakova, Yukimi Ogawa, Swabir Silayi, and Sathya Stone, and most of all, the strange and surreal “Six Things We Found During The Autopsy”, by Kuzhali Manickavel, and the “The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mecanical Soul”, by Natalia Theodoridou, a beautiful tribute to Theo Jansen. I don’t think this book (and the rest of the series) is for everyone, as some of the stories are not the usual SF/Fantasy stuff and the overall selection is not as strong as in some more conventional anthologies as I’ve got the feeling that in some cases quality is sacrificed for the sake of diversity, but I’d definitely recommended it to anyone willing to take some risks and to make an effort to try to discover something slightly different. As far as I’m concerned, I’m looking forward to reading the 5th volume. ( )
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When we set out to publish the first volume of The Apex Book of World SF, the idea of a series of such anthologies was only a dream--an impossible one, it seemed then. (Introduction)
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Now firmly established as the benchmark anthology series of international speculative fiction, volume 4 of The Apex Book of World SF sees debut editor Mahvesh Murad bring fresh new eyes to her selection of stories. From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and subverted Japanese folktales, from love in the time of drones to teenagers at the end of the world, the stories in this volume showcase the best of contemporary speculative fiction, wherever it's written. "Important to the future of not only international authors, but the entire SF community." -Strange Horizons Featuring: Vajra Chandrasekera (Sri Lanka) - "Pockets Full of Stones" Yukimi Ogawa (Japan) - "In Her Head, In Her Eyes" Zen Cho (Malaysia) - "The Four Generations of Chang E" Shimon Adaf (Israel) - "Like A Coin Entrusted in Faith" (Translated by the author) Celeste Rita Baker (Virgin Islands) - "Single Entry" Nene Ormes (Sweden) - "The Good Matter" (Translated Lisa J Isaksson and Nene Ormes) JY Yang (Singapore) - "Tiger Baby" Isabel Yap (Philippines) - "A Cup of Salt Tears" Usman T Malik (Pakistan) - "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" Kuzhali Manickavel (India) - "Six Things We Found During the Autopsy" Elana Gomel (Israel) - "The Farm" Haralambi Markov (Bulgaria) - "The Language of Knives" Sabrina Huang - "Setting Up Home" (Translated by Jeremy Tiang) Sathya Stone (Sri Lanka) - "Jinki and the Paradox" Johann Thorsson (Iceland) - "First, Bite a Finger" Dilman Dila (Uganda) - "How My Father Became a God" Swabir Silayi (Kenya) - "Colour Me Grey" Deepak Unnikrishnan (The Emirates) - "Sarama" Chinelo Onwualu (Nigeria) - "The Gift of Touch" Saad Z. Hossain (Bangaldesh) - "Djinns Live by the Sea" Bernardo Fern ndez (Mexico) - "The Last Hours of the Final Days" (Translated by the author) Natalia Theodoridou (Greece) - "The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul" Samuel Marolla (Italy) - "Black Tea" (Translated by Andrew Tanzi) Julie Novakova (Czech Republic) - "The Symphony of Ice and Dust" Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Netherlands) - "The Boy Who Cast No Shadow" (Translated by Laura Vroomen) Sese Yane (Kenya) - "The Corpse" Tang Fei - "Pepe" (Translated by John Chu) Roc o Rinc n (Spain) - "The Lady of the Soler Colony" (Translated by James and Marian Womack) Cover art and design by Sarah Anne Langton.
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And although I didn’t really care about a third of the stories, the other two thirds were engaging enough to make this volume worth reading. The title is a bit misleading though, as you’ll find science fiction stories here, but also fantasy, magic realism, weird, horror, surrealism… which is perfectly fine with me as it makes the anthology extremely varied. My standouts among my rereads were the stories by Zen Cho and Vajra Chandrasekera, two authors I know pretty well, as I’ve translated and included some of their stories in the anthologies I’ve edited myself. Among the stories that were new to me, I particularly enjoyed those by Shimon Adaf, Saad Z. Hossain, Sabrina Huang, Julie Novakova, Yukimi Ogawa, Swabir Silayi, and Sathya Stone, and most of all, the strange and surreal “Six Things We Found During The Autopsy”, by Kuzhali Manickavel, and the “The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mecanical Soul”, by Natalia Theodoridou, a beautiful tribute to Theo Jansen.
I don’t think this book (and the rest of the series) is for everyone, as some of the stories are not the usual SF/Fantasy stuff and the overall selection is not as strong as in some more conventional anthologies as I’ve got the feeling that in some cases quality is sacrificed for the sake of diversity, but I’d definitely recommended it to anyone willing to take some risks and to make an effort to try to discover something slightly different. As far as I’m concerned, I’m looking forward to reading the 5th volume. (