An announcement from Lavie Tidhar:

The World SF Blog was a near-daily blog operating continuously from February 2009 to June 2013, for over four years. Published by Lavie Tidhar, It was dedicated to highlighting international speculative fiction. Over its run it has published hundreds of posts, interviews, articles and, since 2010, over 60 short stories, many of them available in English for the first time.

Charles Tan was contributing editor. Fiction editors were Debbie Moorhouse and then Sarah Newton.

Initially set up to promote Tidhar’s [[[Apex Book of World SF]]] anthology, the blog had since spawned two further anthologies (with Volume 2 published in 2012 and Volume 3 due next year), as well as the annual World SF Travel Fund, for facilitating the visit of international genre people to a major convention.

In his farewell letter, Tidhar wrote, “It felt to me that we were able to partly-initiate, and to encourage, a conversation that the genre had not had before, and in a very real way is only now beginning to seriously engage in.” He added, “The change I have seen in the four years of the blog is heartening. In a way, I have decided to stop now because the blog has fulfilled everything I ever wanted it to, and so much more.”

The World SF Blog won a 2012 BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction. It was also given a Kitschies Special Achievement Award, and was a 2011 nominee for the World Fantasy Award.

The blog archive remains online and will also be added to the Merril Collection archives.

World SF Blog main page: http://worldsf.wordpress.com

Tidhar’s farewell letter: http://worldsf.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/a-last-word