Table of Contents: THE APEX BOOK OF WORLD SF 4 edited by Mahvesh Murad
Lavie Tidhar has posted the cover and table of contents to the Apex Book of World SF 4.
About the book:
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.
Here’s the table of contents:
- “Six Thing We Found During The Autopsy” by Kuzhali Manickavel
- “In Her Head, In Her Eyes” by Yukimi Ogawa
- “The Lady of the Soler Colony” by Rocío Rincón Fernández (Translated from the Spanish by James and Marian Womack.)
- “The Gift of Touch” by Rocío Rincón Fernández
- “Sarama” by Deepak Unnikrishnan
- “The Farm” by Elana Gomel
- “Djinns Live by the Sea” by Saad Z. Hossain
- “The Language of Knives” by Haralambi Markov
- “The Good Matter” by Nene Ormes (Translated from the Swedish by Lisa J Isaksson and Nene Ormes.)
- “Black Tea” by Samuel Marolla (Translated from the Italian by Andrew Tanzi.)
- “Jinki & the Paradox” by Prathibha Nadeeshani Dissanayake
- “The Corpse” by Sese Yane
- “How My Father a Became God” by Dilman Dila
- “A Cup of Salt Tears” by Isabel Yap
- “Colour Me Grey” by Swabir Silayi
- “Setting Up Home” by Sabrina Huang (Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang.)
- “Pockets Full of Stones” by Pockets Full of Stones
- “The Four Generations of Chang E” by Zen Cho
- “Pepe” by Tang Fei (Translated from the Chinese by John Chu.)
- “The Symphony of Ice and Dust” by Julie Novakova
- “Tiger Baby” by JY Yang
- “The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul” by Natalia Theodoridou
- “The Boy Who Cast No Shadow” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Translated from the Dutch by Laura Vroomen.)
- “Like A Coin Entrusted in Faith” by Shimon Adaf (Translated from Hebrew by the Author.)
- “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T. Malik
- “First, Bite Just a Finger” by Johann Thorsson
- “The Last Hours of The Final Days” by Bernardo Fernández (Translated from the Spanish by the author.)
- “Single Entry” by Celeste Rita Baker