The Best of World SF by Lavie Tidhar (children's ebooks free online .txt) 📕

Malena Salazar Maciá: ‘Eyes of the Crocodile’, translated by Toshiya Kamei, first published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 161, February 2020. Reproduced by permission of the author and translator.

Tade Thompson: ‘Bootblack’. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Fabio Fernandes: ‘The Emptiness in the Heart of all Things’, first published in American Monsters Part I, copyright © 2018 by Fabio Fernandes. Reproduced by permission of the author

R.S.A. Garcia: ‘The Sun From Both Sides’, first published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 152, May 2019, copyright © R.S.A. Garcia. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Cristina Jurado: ‘Dump’, translated by Steve Redwood, first published in Spanish in El futuro es bosque: Antología de ficción climática, Apache Libros, 2018. Reproduced by permission of the author and translator.

Gerardo Horacio Porcayo: ‘Rue Chair’, originally published in Spanish, in SUB fanzine, by Bernardo Fernandez BEF, Issue 5, Winter 2002. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Hannu Rajaniemi: ‘His Master’s Voice’ first published in Interzone Magazine, Issue 218, 2008. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Nir Yaniv: ‘Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys’, translated by Lavie Tidhar. Reproduced by permission of the author and translator.

Emil H. Petersen: ‘The Cryptid’. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Ekaterina Sedia: ‘The Bank of Burkina Faso’. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Kuzhali Manickavel: ‘An Incomplete Guide…’ first published in The Jewish Mexican Literary Review, 2016. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Kofi Nyameye: ‘The Old Man with The Third Hand’ first published in The Manchester Review, Special Issue 18, 2017, copyright © Kofi Nyameye. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Lauren Beukes: ‘The Green’. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Karin Tidbeck: ‘The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir’ first published on 14/01/2019 by Tor.com, copyright © Karin Tidbeck 2019. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia: ‘Prime Meridian’. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Zen Cho: ‘If At First You Don’t Succeed’. Reproduced by permission of the author.

Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The publisher apologizes for any errors or omissions in the above list and would be grateful if notified of any corrections that should be incorporated in future reprints or editions of this book.

About the Author

LAVIE TIDHAR is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Osama, The Violent Century, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning A Man Lies Dreaming, and the Campbell Award-winning Central Station, in addition to many other works and several other awards. He works across genres, combining detective and thriller modes with poetry, science fiction and historical and autobiographical material. His work has been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by the Guardian and the Financial Times, and to Kurt Vonnegut’s by Locus. His latest novel, By Force Alone, was published by Head of Zeus in 2020.

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