"It's all of science fiction distilled into a single book."
--Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun Machine

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is...

Now firmly established as the benchmark anthology series of international speculative fiction, volume 4 of The Apex Book of World SF sees debut editor Mahvesh Murad bring fresh new eyes to her selection of stories.

From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and subverted Japanese folktales, from love in the time of drones to teenagers at the end of the world, the stories in this volume showcase the best of contemporary speculative fiction, wherever it's written.

"Important to the future of not only international authors, but the entire SF...

In The Apex Book of World SF 2, editor Lavie Tidhar collects short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors from Africa and Latin America.

An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist. In The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award-nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist fantasy from Russia and epic fantasy from Poland; near-future tales from Mexico and Finland, as well as cyberpunk from South...

In "The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3," editor Lavie Tidhar collects short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors from Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe.

"The Apex Book of SF series has proven to be an excellent way to sample the diversity of world SFF and to broaden our understanding of the genre's potentials."
--Ken Liu, winner of the Hugo Award and author of "The Grace of Kings"

These stories run the gamut from science fiction, to fantasy, to horror. Some are translations (from German, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Swedish), and some were written in English....

"The Apex Book of World SF," edited by Lavie Tidhar, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from Asia, Eastern Europe and around the world.

The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells a tale breathtakingly vast and varied, whether caught in the ghosts of the past or entangled in a postmodern age.

Among the...

Apex Magazine SFFH contains the following:

-FICTION-
The Love It Bears Fair Maidens by K.T. Bryski
The Gentleman of Chaos by A. Merc Rustad
Lazarus and the Amazing Kid Phoenix by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Cuckoo Girls by Douglas F. Warrick
Folk Hero by Mary Pletsch
Uncontainable by Helen Stubbs
Agent of V.A.L.I.S. by Lavie Tidhar
The Gift of Touch by Chinelo Onwualu
Rosewater (excerpt) by Tade Thompson

-INTERROGATIONS-
Author K.T. Bryski
Author Mary Pletsch
Cover artist Sunny Ray
Five Questions with the...