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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lavie TidharPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book ISBN: 9781804548035ISBN 10: 1804548030 Pages: 672 Publication Date: 12 October 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In stock Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsPRAISE FOR THE BEST OF WORLD SF SERIES: '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, on The Best of World SF: Vol 2. 'An excellent, lovingly curated collection that is also uniformly well translated' Financial Times, on The Best of World SF Volume 1. '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, on The Best of World SF Volume 1. 'This handsome volume from Head of Zeus is a major step on a 45-year journey to bring global speculative fiction to Anglophone attention... The print edition of The Best of World SF: Volume 1 is truly a thing of beauty, providing gravitas and a wider audience for the authors it collects... There are many striking stories in the collection... This anthology is just the start of a whole new game for speculative fiction authors around the world' * LA Review of Books * 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 Author InformationLavie 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |