The third annual instalment to the 'excellent, lovingly curated' (Financial Times) The Best of World SF series The Best of World SF series is a fixture on the global science fiction scene. If you want to find the most exciting SF authors writing today, look no further. In this third instalment, you'll discover alien artists, rioting dinosaurs, shape-shifting rabbits, heartbreak-harvesting cafes and one robot on a quest for meaning. You will be transported to the stars and back down to Earth and sideways, with the order of the world turned upside down. Featuring authors from Austria, Bulgaria, China, Finland, Ghana, Greece, India, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, the Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Singapore and South Africa, this collection's stories have been selected by award-winning writer, editor and World SF expert Lavie Tidhar. The most exciting science fiction on the planet comes from all corners of the globe. And it's all in the Best of World SF series.

Twenty-eight new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.

About the Author
Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Osama (2011), The Violent Century (2013), the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), and the Campbell Award-winning Central Station (2016), in addition to many other works and several other awards. He works across genres, combining detective and thriller modes with poetry, science fiction and historical and autobiographical material. His work has been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by the Guardian and the Financial Times, and to Kurt Vonnegut's by Locus.

Reviews
This is exactly what a book of science fiction should be: confronting and examining a range of issues, in varied times and places, through a variety of technological and social lenses * Locus *
Reviews for The Best of World SF series: 'We need this anthology, and we need editors like Tidhar' The Times 'An excellent, lovingly curated collection' Financial Times 'Just the start of a whole new game for speculative fiction authors around the world' LA Review of Books 'An outstanding assortment of international sci-fi shorts... a bold and powerful argument for non-Anglophone SF's potential to push the genre's boundaries' Publishers Weekly Starred Review



Book Information
ISBN 9781804548035
Author Lavie Tidhar
Format Hardback
Page Count 672
Imprint Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC