The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5, edited by Cristina Jurado, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from South America, southeast Asia, First Nations, and Africa.
Cyberpunk from Spain, Singapore, and Japan; mythology from Venezuela, Korea, and First Nations; stories of the dead from Zimbabwe and Egypt, and space wonders from India, Germany, and Bolivia. And much more. The fifth volume of the ground-breaking World SF anthology series reveals once more the uniquely international dimension of speculative fiction.
Contains the following stories from around the world:
Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Singapore) β "A Series of Steaks"
DaΓna Chaviano (Cuba, translated by Matthew D. Goodwin) β "Accursed Lineage"
Darcie Little Badger (USA/Lipan Apache) β "NkΓ‘sht ΓΓ"
T.L. Huchu (Zimbabwe) β "Ghostalker"
Taiyo Fujii (Japan, translated by Jim Hubbert) β "Violation of the TrueNet Security Act"
Vandana Singh (India) β "Ambiguity Machines: An Examination"
Basma Abdel Aziz (Egypt, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette) β "Scenes from the Life of an Autocrat"
Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia, translated by Jessica Sequeira) β "Our Dead World"
Bo-young Kim (South Korea, translated by Jihyun Park & Gord Sellar) β "An Evolutionary Myth"
Israel Alonso (Spain, translated by Steve Redwood) β "You Will See the Moon Rise"
Sara Saab (Lebanon) β "The Barrette Girls"
Chi Hui (China, translated by John Chu) β "The Calculations of Artificials"
Ana Hurtado (Venezuela) β "El CΓ³ndor del MachΓ‘ngara"
Karla Schmidt (Germany, translated by Lara M. Harmon) β "Alone, on the Wind"
Eliza Victoria (Philippines) β "The Seventh"
Tochi Onyebuchi (Nigeria/USA) β "Screamers"
R.S.A. Garcia (Trinidad and Tobago) β "The Bois"
Giovanni De Feo (Italy) β "Ugo"