by Lavie Tidhar
First published 2024
This collection presents science fiction from nineteen countries across four continents. Award-winning editor Lavie Tidhar has selected stories featuring alien artists creating impossible works, dinosaurs breaking free in violent uprising, rabbits that shift between forms, cafes that extract and bottle human heartbreak, and a robot searching for its purpose in an indifferent universe. The tales transport readers beyond Earth's atmosphere to distant stars, then return them to familiar ground with reality twisted into new configurations. Writers from Austria to South Africa, from Bulgaria to the Philippines, from China to Nigeria contribute their visions. The anthology represents the third volume in a series that the Financial Times praised as excellent and lovingly curated. These stories demonstrate that the most compelling science fiction emerges from every corner of the planet, not just traditional publishing centers.
Genres: short-stories, science-fiction
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: diverse-perspectives, found-family
Setting: Austria, South Africa, Bulgaria, Philippines, China, Nigeria
Period: 21st-century
672 pages · Paperback · Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book