The Best of World SF is my maaasive forthcoming anthology of international speculative fiction (though with more of a focus on science fiction), to be published in hardcover by Head of Zeus. I talk a little bit about it at Tor.com. The UK release is in April 2021, with the US following in June. Cover is by Ben Prior. £25, though you can pre-order it for less. Here’s the cover and Table of Contents!
Table of Contents:
- ‘Immersion’ by Aliette de Bodard
- ‘Debtless’ by Chen Qiufan (trans. from Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks)
- ‘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 (trans. from Chinese by the author)
- ‘Xingzhou’ by Yi-Sheng Ng
- ‘Prayer’ by Taiyo Fujii (trans. from Japanese by Kamil Spychalski)
- ‘The Green Ship’ by Francesco Verso (trans. from Italian by Michael Colbert)
- ‘Eyes of the Crocodile’ by Malena Salazar Maciá (trans. from Spanish by Toshiya Kamei)
- ‘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 (trans. from Spanish by Steve Redwood)
- ‘Rue Chair’ by Gerardo Horacio Porcayo (trans. from Spanish by the author)
- ‘His Master’s Voice’ by Hannu Rajaniemi
- ‘Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys’ by Nir Yaniv (trans. from Hebrew by Lavie Tidhar)
- ‘The Cryptid’ by Emil H. Petersen (trans. from Icelandic by the author)
- ‘The Bank of Burkina Faso’ by Ekaterina Sedia
- ‘An Incomplete Guide to Understanding the Rose Petal Infestation Associated With EverTyphoid Patients in the Tropicool IcyLand Urban Indian Slum’ 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