Jeremiah Tolbert

Lavie Tidhar has long been one of my favorite authors, and we fre­quently pub­lished him at the Fortean Bureau.  He’s a fas­ci­nat­ing indi­vid­ual and it shows in his writ­ing, which is very often influ­enced by his grow­ing up in Israel.  I like exotic locales in my fic­tion, and Lavie has a way of mak­ing places on Earth itself seem exotic.

Which brings me to his new anthol­ogy, The Apex Book of World SF.

Lavie has put together a ros­ter of authors you have prob­a­bly never heard of before, and maybe a few that you have.  Writers from India, Thailand, China, Croatia, and more.   Sometimes we in the sci­ence fic­tion lit­er­ary cir­cles fail to real­ize that the genre extends past the bor­ders of the English-​​speaking world.  This book in a per­fect world would get a lot of atten­tion from us.

I often hear peo­ple won­der­ing when the next big move­ment will come along.  We had New Wave, and Cyberpunk.  I have sus­pected for some time that the next move­ment is going to come from sci­ence fic­tion authors for who English is a sec­ond lan­guage, if a lan­guage at all.

I’m look­ing for­ward to read­ing this one.  I hope you check it out. There’s even a World SF Blog that has been run­ning some great con­tent late.
You can order the anthol­ogy at the Apex Book Company Website.