The landmark anthology series of international speculative fiction returns with volume 5 of The Apex Book of World SF. Cris Jurado joins series editor Lavie Tidhar to highlight the best speculative fiction from around the world. Cyberpunk from Spain, Singapore and Japan; mythology from Venezuela, Korea and First Nations; stories of the dead from Zimbabwe and Egypt, and space wonders from India, Germany and Bolivia. And much more. The fifth volume of the ground-breaking World SF anthology series reveals once more the uniquely international dimension of speculative fiction. The Apex Book of World SF series is an excellent primer for any sci-fi reader trying to understand the field's global reach.
Contents:
* Introduction by Series Editor Lavie Tidhar (The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5) • essay by Lavie Tidhar
* Introduction by Volume Editor Cristina Jurado (The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5) • essay by Cristina Jurado
* A Series of Steaks (2017) / novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
* Accursed Lineage (2017) / short story by Daína Chaviano (trans. of Estirpe maldita 1997)
* Nkasht ii (2014) / short story by Darcie Little Badger
* Ghostalker (2015) / short story by T. L. Huchu
* Violation of the TrueNet Security Act (2017) / novelette by Taiyo Fujii 藤井太洋? (trans. of コラボレーション? 2013)
* Ambiguity Machines: An Examination (2015) / novelette by Vandana Singh
* Scenes from the Life of an Autocrat (2017) / short story by Basma Abdel Aziz
* Our Dead World (2017) / short story by Liliana Colanzi (trans. of Nuestro mundo muerto 2016)
* An Evolutionary Myth (2015) / novelette by Bo-Young Kim 김보영? (trans. of 진화신화? 2006)
* You Will See the Moon Rise (2017) / short story by Israel Alonso (trans. of Verás crecer la luna 2017)
* The Barrette Girls (2017) / short story by Sara Saab
* The Calculations of Artificials (2016) / novelette by Chi Hui (trans. of 伪人算法? 2010)
* El Condor del Machangara (2017) / short story by Ana Hurtado
* Alone, on the Wind (2016) / novelette by Karla Schmidt (trans. of Auf dem Wind. Allein 2011)
* The Seventh (2015) / short story by Eliza Victoria
* Screamers (2016) / short story by Tochi Onyebuchi
* The Bois (2017) / short story by R. S. A. Garcia
* Ugo (2017) / short story by Giovanni De Feo
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