The Best of World SF

26 new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction, selected by Lavie Tidhar.

26 new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction, selected by Lavie Tidhar.

Fizzes with great ideas and wonderful writing... Now this book exists, it feels absurd it didn't exist sooner

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Lavie Tidhar's work encompasses literary fiction (Maror, Adama and Six Lives, cross-genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) and World Fantasy Award winner Osama (2011) and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom prize winner Central Station (2016). He has also written comics (Adler, 2020) and children's books such as Candy (2018) and A Child's Book of the Future (2024). He is a former columnist for the Washington Post and a current honorary Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at the American International University in London.

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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 Maciá
'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