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Book Giveaway: The Best of World SF: Volume 1 Edited by Lavie Tidhar Posted at 10:16 AM by Dave Post

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Win one of 5 copies! The Best of World SF, Volume 1 by Lavie Tidhar
Head of Zeus Head of Zeus is back with a new contest! This time we have 5 hardcover copies of The Best of World SF: Volume 1 edited by Lavie Tidhar to give away. That’s right, you can win it before you can even buy it on June 1. This contest is open to US and UK residents only — unfortunately, we cannot mail the prizes elsewhere.

To enter, all you have to do is re-tweet this tweet:


…or comment here in the blog. Do both and double your chances! It’s about as easy as we can make it. We’ll have a random drawing from our re-tweeter pool and announce the winners next Friday, May 21, so tweet away and don’t forget to check back next week to see if you’ve won!


The Best of World SF: Volume 1The Best of World SF: Volume 1
edited by Lavie Tidhar

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

The future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction.

They say the more things change the more they stay the same. But over the last hundred years, science fiction has changed. Vibrant new generations of writers have sprung up across the globe, proving the old adage false. From Ghana to India, from Mexico to France, from Singapore to Cuba, they draw on their unique backgrounds and culture, changing the face of the genre one story at a time.

Prepare yourself for a journey through the wildest reaches of the imagination, to visions of Earth as it might be and the far corners of the universe. Along the way, you will meet robots and monsters, adventurers and time travelers, rogues and royalty.

In The Best of World SF, award-winning author Lavie Tidhar acts as guide and companion to a world of stories, from never-before-seen originals to award winners, from twenty-three countries and seven languages. Because the future is coming and it belongs to us all.

Stories:

  • ‘Immersion’ by Aliette de Bodard
  • ‘Debtless’ by Chen Qiufan
  • ‘Fandom for Robots’ by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
  • ‘Virtual Snapshots’ by Tlotlo Tsamaase
  • ‘What The Dead Man Said’ by Chinelo Onwualu
  • ‘Delhi’ by Vandana Singh
  • ‘The Wheel of Samsara’ by Han Song
  • ‘Xingzhou’ by Yi-Sheng Ng
  • ‘Prayer’ by Taiyo Fujii
  • ‘The Green Ship’ by Francesco Verso
  • ‘Eyes of the Crocodile’ by Malena Salazar Macia
  • ‘Bootblack’ by Tade Thompson
  • ‘The Emptiness in the Heart of all Things’ by Fabio Fernandes
  • ‘The Sun From Both Sides’ by R.S.A. Garcia
  • ‘Dump’ by Cristina Jurado
  • ‘Rue Chair’ by Gerardo Horacio Porcayo
  • ‘His Master’s Voice’ by Hannu Rajaniemi
  • ‘Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys’ by Nir Yaniv
  • ‘The Cryptid’ by Emil H. Petersen
  • ‘The Bank of Burkina Faso’ by Ekaterina Sedia
  • ‘An Incomplete Guide…’ by Kuzhali Manickavel
  • ‘The Old Man with The Third Hand’ by Kofi Nyameye
  • ‘The Green’ by Lauren Beukes
  • ‘The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir’ by Karin Tidbeck
  • ‘Prime Meridian’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • ‘If At First You Don’t Succeed’ by Zen Cho

Reviews:

“‘This excellent anthology proves editor Tidhar’s assertion that science fiction should no longer be thought of as ‘white, male, and American’ with 26 exemplary stories from 21 countries … Worthwhile both as a survey of international sci-fi and on a story-by-story level, this wonderful anthology should be a hit with any sci-fi fan.” — Publishers Weekly

“Although science fiction imagines diverse, imaginative, and frightening futures, genre anthologies rarely achieve the brilliant range and diversity of voices of The Best of World SF: Volume 1 … The anthology brings a fresh, revolutionary perspective in that its selections are intentionally curated to suggest that the horizon is both closer and brighter than Western readers might think. Vital and exciting, The Best of World SF blows the blast panels off the dusty, well-worn tropes of popular science fiction and lets in a dazzling burst of lunar light.” — Foreword

“Tidhar gives a cheerful, fannish introduction to the stories, drawn from 26 countries on five continents, and encompassing a dizzying range of tones and approaches.” — The Times

Lavie TidharAbout the Editor:

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. His latest novels are the Locus Award nominated Unholy Land (2018) and debut children’s novel Candy (2018). 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.

 

9 Comments

Steven Arellano Rose   |   14 May 2021 @ 19:54

This anthology looks like it’s loaded with some good stories. And with stories by authors from all over the world it will probably have a true diversity of view points in the genre.

pauljames   |   15 May 2021 @ 08:17

Sounds like a fascinating collection.

Darrell Moore   |   15 May 2021 @ 14:49

Sounds interesting. Can’t go wrong with Lavie Tidhar.

Greg Quarles   |   16 May 2021 @ 18:25

I love a good anthology, and this looks like a great one! Diversity is something I try to seek out in my Sci-Fi/Fantasy!

L. Raymond   |   16 May 2021 @ 22:12

I’m looking forward to this one. I’m only familiar with Ekaterina Sedia’s work, so there are lots of new authors to meet here.

Yousif Husham Mohamed Elgundi   |   17 May 2021 @ 11:18

Seems like quite a collection!
I hope I’ll end up reading it one day.

Sonia Oldrini   |   17 May 2021 @ 13:14

I have been eyeing this up so would love to win

badseedgirl   |   18 May 2021 @ 14:28

What a wonderful way to truly get a sampling of the world of Sci-fi literature. I even recognize a few of the authors, so apparently I have managed to broaden my reading scope without realizing it!

Dave Post   |   27 May 2021 @ 17:09

Sonia Oldrini, you are a contest winner! Please contact us with your shipping into so we can get your book in the mail. Congrats!

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