BEST OF WORLD SF, VOLUME 2

An ambitious and exhilarating anthology which gathers the very best of contemporary science fiction from across the globe. With 29 stories in total, including eight original and exclusive pieces, it captures the extraordinary range, imagination and bold experimentation shaping the genre today. Edited by award-winning author Lavi Tidhar, the collection features writers from an extraordinary sweep of countries, including Bahrain, Brazil, China, Greece, India, Japan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Uganda, Zimbabwe and many more. Each story has been carefully selected by experts, ensuring a richness of voices, perspectives and storytelling traditions rarely found in a single volume. The journey begins in space with Mars as an early destination, then pushes further out among the stars before looping back to a transformed, unsettling Earth. Along the way, readers encounter artificial intelligence, ancient and newly born gods, aliens, the undead, and futures both hopeful and deeply strange. Standout tales include Milagroso by Isabel Yap, Your Multicolored Life, Dead Man Awaking to the Sun, Salvaging Gods, The Beast Has Died, When We Die on Mars and The Gardens of Babylon, among many others that linger long after the final page. At 650 pages, this substantial hardback complete with a satin ribbon page marker is both a landmark collection and a celebration of the global imagination.