Announcing The Apex Book of World SF 2!

Delighted to announce that, at long last, my anthology The Apex Book of World SF 2 is available for pre-orders. The amazing cover is by Mexican artist Raúl Cruz.

*Preorder and receive the first volume of The Apex Book of World SF for only $5*

Scheduled release date of April, 2012

An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist; inThe Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist fantasy from Russia and epic fantasy from Poland; near-future tales from Mexico and Finland, or cyberpunk from South Africa: in this anthology one gets a glimpse of the complex and fascinating world of genre fiction – from all over our world. Featuring work from noted international authors such as Will Elliot, Hannu Rajaniemi, Shweta Narayan, Lauren Bukes, Ekaterina Sedia, Nnedi Okorafor, and Andrzej Sapkowski.

Don’t miss the first volume of great international fiction in volume one of The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar.

Table of Contents:
“Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Mr. Goop” by Ivor W. Hartmann
“Trees of Bone” by Daliso Chaponda
“The First Peruvian in Space” by Daniel Salvo (translated by Jose B. Adolph)
“Eyes in the Vastness of Forever” by Gustavo Bondoni
“The Tomb” by Chen Qiufan (translated by the author)
“The Sound of Breaking Glass” by Joyce Chng
“A Single Year” by Csilla Kleinheincz (translated by the author)
“The Secret Origin of Spin-Man” by Andrew Drilon
“Borrowed Time” by Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro (translated by Daniel W. Koon)
“Branded” by Lauren Beukes
“December 8th” by Raúl Flores (translated by Daniel W. Koon)
“Hungry Man” by Will Elliott
“Nira and I” by Shweta Narayan
“Nothing Happened in 1999” by Fábio Fernandes
“Shadow” by Tade Thompson
“Shibuya no Love” by Hannu Rajaniemi
“Maquech” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“The Glory of the World” by Sergey Gerasimov
“The New Neighbours” by Tim Jones
“From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7” by Nnedi Okorafor
“The Slows” by Gail Hareven (translated by Yaacov Jeffrey Green)
“Zombie Lenin” by Ekaterina Sedia
“Electric Sonalika” by Samit Basu
“The Malady” by Andrzej Sapkowski (translated by Wiesiek Powaga)
“A Life Made Possible Behind The Barricades” by Jacques Barcia

Cover art “Santa Adela” by Raúl Cruz

BSFA Meeting, 25th August

I’m flying to London tomorrow, and have a hectic couple of weeks lined up, by the looks of things. In any case, I will be going to the British Science Fiction Association open meeting on the 25th of August, which is at the Antelope Tavern in Belgravia. (it’s sort of useful research for the crime book I’m writing…)

Anyhow if you’re in London, if you’re going to the BSFA meeting, if you’d like to buy me a beer… that’s where I’ll be.

There will be no more updates for a while (I did say hectic, right?). At the moment I’m finishing up The Apex Book of World SF 2. Quite excited about that one! Some great writers and stories in it.

And, after two months in Jakarta (the city of 13 million cars and one traffic light) I am looking forward to not being run over…

$1.99 books!

You can now get both HebrewPunk, and The Apex Book of World SF, both in a variety of e-book format, for only $1.99 each! Bit of a bargain, that is, and no mistake, gov.

Apex Book of World SF Feature on Strange Horizons

Part one of Nicholas Seeley‘s incredible feature on the Apex Book of World SF, where he interviews the authors, discusses the themes and so much more, is now up at Strange Horizons:

The stories in this book not only show the diversity of modern speculative fiction, but can be seen as a commentary on that diversity itself. Taken as a group, they’re not just “global,” but globalized; not just foreign, but actually about foreign-ness. (Or at least, if you’re at loose ends on a rainy afternoon, you can read them that way.)

In the book, we see a Martian scientist vacationing in a futuristic but still-ancient Tibet, a VR gamer tripping through a multitude of created worlds, a New York detective exiled in a Chinese territory, a refugee from a foreign war in a foreign land, an old man lost in the future, and a traveler aboard a train with no stated destination. In one story, a man returns to his childhood home in a country from which he was displaced; in another a woman discovers that the entire world she knew was a laboratory; in a third, a young girl leaves home for a shopping trip that ends up spanning the globe and lasting a lifetime.

The stories cross genre—some are fantasy, some SF, a few are horror, and one seems more a crime thriller than anything else. One element that one could argue unites almost all the tales in this anthology, and indeed, gives it its own particular flavor, is the explicit connection that’s drawn between speculative fiction and displacement. These are stories from many cultures and countries, but they are, in the vast majority, stories about people without countries, or between cultures. – read the rest of the article.