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The Best of World SF Giveaway Winners!
The Best of World SF giveaway is over and it’s time to announce our winners! We assigned each entry a number then used a random number generator to pick out five names:
- Sonia Oldrini
- Steven Arellano Rose
- Marian D Moore – @EzekielsOldest
- Jim Harris – @JimHarris28
- L. Raymond
If you are one of our lucky winners please send your mailing address to “info at worlds without end dot com” so we can get these books in the mail for you!
Many thanks to Lavie Tidhar and Head of Zeus for making the contest possible. If you did not win, never fear – The Best of World SF will be released on June 1, 2021 and is available for pre-order now.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our retweet contest! Until next time, read on.
Book Giveaway: The Best of World SF: Volume 1 Edited by Lavie Tidhar
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:
Retweet for your chance to win! For details click https://t.co/JSixFbDguy. US and UK entries only. @lavietidhar, @HoZ_Books pic.twitter.com/oDIZvHpo6i
— WorldsWithoutEnd (@WWEnd) May 14, 2021
…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 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
The Sword Falls Giveaway Winners!
The Sword Falls giveaway is over and it’s time to announce our winners! We assigned each entry a number then used a random number generator to pick out five names:
- Red Bird – @rubylorikeet
- Al – @herne2000
- MrTester – @MrTeste75740273
- Daniel Zhang – @Dantastic_
- Jason Powell
If you are one of our lucky winners please send your mailing address to “info at worlds without end dot com” so we can get these books in the mail for you!
Many thanks to A. J. Smith and Head of Zeus for making the contest possible. If you did not win, never fear – The Sword Falls is available for purchase right now.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our retweet contest! Until next time, read on.
Book Giveaway! The Sword Falls by A. J. Smith
Hey, look! A book giveaway! It’s been awhile hasn’t it? Well, as long as we’re bringing it back we might as well make it a good one.
This contest comes courtesy of Head of Zeus to promote the May 1st publication of The Sword Falls, book 2 of A. J. Smith’s Form & Void series. Of course it can sometimes be hard promoting the second book in a series so we’re giving away book 1 as well. Five copies of both books!
To enter, all you have to do is re-tweet this tweet:
Retweet for your chance to win! For details click https://t.co/fTfI9cKgOw. USA entries only. @Smith23AJ, @HoZ_Books, pic.twitter.com/yeLJT7MS84
— WorldsWithoutEnd (@WWEnd) April 30, 2021
…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 7, so tweet away and don’t forget to check back to see if you’ve won! Please note: This is a USA only contest. Unfortunately, we cannot mail the prizes internationally.
The Glass Breaks
by A. J. Smith
Seventeen-year-old Duncan Greenfire is alive.
Three hours ago, he was chained to the rocks and submerged as the incoming tide washed over his head. Now the waters are receding and Duncan’s continued survival has completed his initiation as a Sea Wolf.
It is the 167th year of the Dark Age. The Sea Wolves and their Eastron kin can break the glass and step into the void, slipping from the real world and reappearing wherever they wish. Wielding their power, they conquered the native Pure Ones and established their own Kingdom.
The Sea Wolves glory in piracy and slaughter. Their rule is absolute, but young Duncan Greenfire and duelist Adeline Brand will discover a conspiracy to end their dominion, a conspiracy to shatter the glass that separates the worlds of Form and Void and unleash a primeval chaos across the world.
The Sword Falls
by A. J. Smith
A MAN OF THE DAWN CLAW WILL BE THE ALWAYS KING.
It will ever be so. They will always rule… but they will not always lead.
Prince Oliver Dawn Claw, heir to the Kingdom of the Four Claws, is thrust into a world he doesn’t understand as he waits for his father to die. Away from home, with few allies – and too many enemies – he faces a new and otherworldly threat from beneath the sea. Alliances break and masks fall, as the Dark Brethren reveal their true master.
Meanwhile, Adeline Brand – called the Alpha Wolf – refuses to wait, and becomes the edge of the sword that swings back at the Dreaming God. Assembling allies and crushing resistance, she enters a fight she doesn’t know if she can win, as the sea begins to rise.
What people are saying:
“Best described as George R.R. Martin meets H.P. Lovecraft, The Glass Breaks is a fine example of British fantasy writing at its most entertaining” — Guardian
“An epic feat of world-building from one of British fantasy’s most innovative voices” — Bookseller
“Interesting and enticing, deftly sidesteps fantasy cliché and thrusts you towards the next installment” — SFX
George R. R. Martin meets H. P. Lovecraft? Sounds like a winner to me. What do you think?
