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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 travellers, 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

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

The second annual installment to the 'rare and wonderful' (The Times) The Best of World SF Volume 1, this collection of twenty-nine stories, including eight original and exclusive additions, represents the state of the art in international science fiction.

Navigating around the globe, The Best of World SF Volume 2 features writers from Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Grenada, India, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, The Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Each story has been selected by World SF expert and award-winning author Lavie Tidhar. Taking us into space -- Mars at first, then the stars -- and then back to a strange, transformed Earth via AI, gods, aliens and the undead, the collection traces the ever-changing meaning of the genre from some of the most exciting voices writing today.

This is not a retrospective of what science fiction around the world used to look like. This is a snapshot of what some of it looks like now. And it's never been more exciting.