A press release from Jason Sizemore of Apex Publications:
Readers who preorder The Apex Book of World SF 2 by April 30 will get extra fiction and nonfiction, as well as a chance to read the book four months before it goes on sale through major retailers.
The special early edition, available through Apex Publications’ website (www.apexbookcompany.com), includes Nir Yaniv’s novelette “Undercity,” and Charles Tan’s essay “World SF: Our Possible Future,” in addition to the 26 short stories that will appear in the collection when it is released in August. The early edition will ship beginning April 30. Note: The regular release of the book in August will not contain the novelette or essay.
In addition, for only $5 more, you can receive the first volume of The Apex Book of World SF with your preorder. Use promotion code WORLDSF2USA on checkout and receive free shipping!
Let’s recap. Preorder before April 30th, get a special early edition version of the book containing an exclusive novelette and essay, receive free shipping, and for $5 more get the first volume of The Apex Book of World SF.
Edited by Lavie Tidhar, The Apex Book of World SF 2 collects works from award-winning SF writers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. Featured authors include Will Elliot, Hannu Rajaniemi, Shweta Narayan, Lauren Beukes, Ekaterina Sedia, Nnedi Okorafor, and Andrzej Sapkowski. Several of the stories are published for the first time in English.
Preorders of the special edition can be placed at this link.
Table of Contents:
“Alternate Girl’s Expatriate Life” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Mr Goop” by Ivor W. Hartmann
“Trees of Bone” by Daliso Chaponda
“The First Peruvian in Space” by Daniel Salvo (translated by Jose B. Adolph)
“Eyes in the Vastness of Forever” by Gustavo Bondoni
“The Tomb” by Chen Qiufan (translated by the author)
“The Sound of Breaking Glass” by Joyce Chng
“A Single Year” by Csilla Kleinheincz (translated by the author)
“The Secret Origin of Spin-Man” by Andrew Drilon
“Borrowed Time” by Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro (translated by Daniel W. Koon)
“Branded” by Lauren Beukes
“December 8th” by Raúl Flores (translated by Daniel W. Koon)
“Hungry Man” by Will Elliott
“Nira and I” by Shweta Narayan
“Nothing Happened in 1999” by Fábio Fernandes
“Shadow” by Tade Thompson
“Shibuya no Love” by Hannu Rajaniemi
“Maquech” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“The Glory of the World” by Sergey Gerasimov
“The New Neighbours” by Tim Jones
“From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7” by Nnedi Okorafor
“The Slows” by Gail Hareven (translated by Yaacov Jeffrey Green)
“Zombie Lenin” by Ekaterina Sedia
“Electric Sonalika” by Samit Basu
“The Malady” by Andrzej Sapkowski (translated by Wiesiek Powaga)
“A Life Made Possible Behind The Barricades” by Jacques Barcia
The cover art, “Santa Adela,” is by by Raúl Cruz.