Volume 2. If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again / Zen Cho. Debtless / Chen Qiufan ; translated by Blake Stone-Banks -- Fandom for Robots / Vina Jie-Min Prasad -- Virtual Snapshots / Tlotlo Tsamaase -- What The Dead Man Said / Chinelo Onwualu -- Delhi / Vandana Singh -- The Wheel of Samsara / Han Song -- Xingzhou / Ng Yi-Sheng -- Prayer / Taiyo Fujii ; translated by Kamil Spychalski -- The Green Ship / Francesco Verso ; translated by Michael Colbert -- Eyes of the Crocodile / Malena Salazar Maciá ; translated by Toshiya Kamei -- Bootblack / Tade Thompson -- The Emptiness in the Heart of all Things / Fabio Fernandes -- The Sun From Both Sides / R.S.A. Garcia -- Dump / Cristina Jurado ; translated by Steve Redwood -- Rue Chair / Gerardo Horacio Porcayo -- His Master's Voice / Hannu Rajaniemi -- Benjamin Schneider's Little Greys / Nir Yaniv ; translated by Lavie Tidhar -- The Cryptid / Emil Hjörvar Petersen -- The Bank of Burkina Faso / Ekaterina Sedia -- An Incomplete Guide to Understanding the Rose Petal Infestation Associated with EverTyphoid Patients in the Tropicool IcyLand Urban Indian Slum / Kuzhali Manickavel -- The Old Man with The Third Hand / Kofi Nyameye -- The Green / Lauren Beukes -- The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir / Karin Tidbeck -- Prime Meridian / Silvia Moreno-Garcia -- If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again / Zen Cho.
Summary:
"[T]his collection . . . represents the state of the art in international science fiction. Navigating around the globe, The Best of World SF 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."--Provided by publisher.
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