The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5

by Cristina Jurado (Editor)

Other authorsLavie Tidhar (Editor)
Ebook, 2018

Call number

813

Series

Apex Book of World SF (5)

Tags

apex world sf, 05, unread, science fiction, fantasy, anthology, ebook, short stories, coverguess unavailable

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Collection

E-books

Publication

(2018), 359 pages

Pages

359

Description

The landmark anthology series of international speculative fiction returns with volume 5 of The Apex Book of World SF. Cris Jurado joins series editor Lavie Tidhar to highlight the best speculative fiction from around the world.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."Important to the future of not only international authors, but the entire SF community."-Strange Horizons"The Apex Book of World SF series is an excellent primer for any sci-fi reader trying to understand the field's global reach."-The GuardianFeaturing: Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Singapore) - "A Series of Steaks"Da na Chaviano (Cuba, translated by Matthew D. Goodwin) - "Accursed Lineage"Darcie Little Badger (USA/Lipan Apache) - "Nk sht "T.L. Huchu (Zimbabwe) - "Ghostalker"Taiyo Fujii (Japan, translated by Jim Hubbert) - "Violation of the TrueNet Security Act"Vandana Singh (India) - "Ambiguity Machines: An Examination"Basma Abdel Aziz (Egypt, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette) - "Scenes from the Life of an Autocrat"Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia, translated by Jessica Sequeira) - "Our Dead World"Bo-young Kim (South Korea, translated by Jihyun Park & Gord Sellar) - "An Evolutionary Myth"Israel Alonso (Spain, translated by Steve Redwood) - "You Will See the Moon Rise"Sara Saab (Lebanon) - "The Barrette Girls"Chi Hui (China, translated by John Chu) - "The Calculations of Artificials"Ana Hurtado (Venezuela) - "El C ndor del Mach ngara"Karla Schmidt (Germany, translated by Lara M. Harmon) - "Alone, on the Wind"Eliza Victoria (Philippines) - "The Seventh"Tochi Onyebuchi (Nigeria/USA) - "Screamers"R.S.A. Garcia (Trinidad and Tobago) - "The Bois"Giovanni De Feo (Italy) - "Ugo"… (more)

Language

English

Original language

Multiple languages

Original publication date

2018

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LibraryThing member papalaz
I make no bones about it I really like these Apex collections of world SF and I'm no fan of SF normally. Previous collections have varied from good to very good and this one that has 2 people selecting works is a real stand out - this is a great collection. Because they select from literally all
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 around the world you would go a very long way to better this anthology in scope and depth of topic.. I'm gonna give it 4 stars and hope that Volume 6 deserves 5. keep it up Apex
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LibraryThing member valkyrdeath
I’m always happy to see another of these Apex World SF volumes. This one is full of stories by authors from all over the world, and while it’s not as difficult to find international science fiction now as it was when the first volume was published, it’s still great to find so many varied and
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 high quality stories in one place. One of my favourites from the book is the opening story, A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, set in a future world with a main character who forges expensive cuts of meat using bioprinting. I also really liked the closing story, Ugo by Giovanni De Feo, about a relationship between a woman and a man who apparently has memories of future events. It has an ending that leaves various interpretations of what happened possible, but it’s an ambiguity that worked well for me. And talking of ambiguity, Verdana Singh’s Ambiguity Machines: An Examination makes another appearance here, the only story I’d read previously after enjoying her collection last year. The rest of the stories are varied, ranging from science fiction to fantasy, and while I enjoyed some more than others, overall it was a really good read, and I’m already looking forward to any future volumes Apex release.
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LibraryThing member ansate
This is such a solid collection of stories, without any qualifiers. I did feel that there were diverse perspectives that showed up and that was great. I never felt like a translation was clumsy. I thoroughly enjoyed this collection and was sad when I got to the end.
LibraryThing member cyoder44
This is a mixed bag of stories. Some I enjoyed very much; others I skipped after reading a little. It's interesting to see science fiction from others parts of the world.
LibraryThing member paulmorriss
The S in SF for this book means speculative, so you get a wide variety of fiction - from ghost stories, horror and fantasy and Science Fiction. You also get a wider variety of countries represented by the authors and so a variety of settings. Ghost stories and horror aren't really my thing, but one
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 of those ghost stories, Ghostalker was a fizzy, exciting little tale. There's a story that shows that there's plenty still to say about time travel, a fantasy set on the strangest of worlds, and a couple of modern folk stories. Apart from those that aren't my thing, the rest are of a uniformly high quality.
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LibraryThing member MyriadBooks
It look me a long time to read this one; I found this set of stories to be one to savor, enjoyed best in small doses. The entire Apex anthology series has been stellar and, with this volume's reach of international science fiction and fantasy, I think this one is the best book of the lot. I loved
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 how every story pushed me to read outside of my regular tracts, and I'll be thinking about, and revisiting, these stories for a long time.

Recommended.
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LibraryThing member AmyMacEvilly
I love this series, and this was the best of them so far.
LibraryThing member Kellswitch
It’s always fascinating to read stories from other cultures and this series has always done a great job finding new and interesting stories from around the world, and from cultures you wouldn’t normally expect.
Collections like this are often a mixed bag with some stories appealing more than
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 others though for me this was one of the few where even the stories I didn’t like as much still really interested me and I was glad to read all of them.
My favorites were the first three in the book, Nkasht ii by Darcie Little Badger which really makes me want to read more speculative fiction from Native American authors in general and this author (and characters) in particular. I look forward to finding more from her.
I also loved A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, it was one of the strongest science fiction stories in the collections.
And finally, accursed Lineage by Daina Chaviano, a strange little gem and a family I would love to spend more time with.
These three stood out, but most of the others were just as good, for me this was one of their strongest collections yet. Definitely one I will be rereading over time.
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