{"product_id":"2940013580015","title":"The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 1","description":"The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells a tale breathtakingly vast and varied, whether caught in the ghosts of the past or entangled in a postmodern age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the spirits, technology, and deep recesses of the human mind, stories abound. Kites sail to the stars, technology transcends physics, and wheels cry out in the night. Memories come and go like fading echoes and a train carries its passengers through more than simple space and time. Dark and bright, beautiful and haunting, the stories herein represent speculative fiction from a sampling of the finest authors from around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents:\u003cbr\u003eS.P. Somtow(Thailand)--\"The Bird Catcher\"\u003cbr\u003eJetse de Vries(Netherlands)--\"Transcendence Express\"\u003cbr\u003eGuy Hasson (Israel)--\"The Levantine Experiments\"\u003cbr\u003eHan Song (China)--\"The Wheel of Samsara\"\u003cbr\u003eKaaron Warren (Australia\/Fiji)--\"Ghost Jail\"\u003cbr\u003eYang Ping (China)--\"Wizard World\"\u003cbr\u003eDean Francis Alfar (Phillippines)--\"L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)\"\u003cbr\u003eNir Yaniv (Israel)--\"Cinderers\"\u003cbr\u003eJamil Nasir (Palenstine)--\"The Allah Stairs\"\u003cbr\u003eTunku Halim (Malaysia)--\"Biggest Baddest Bomoh\"\u003cbr\u003eAliette de Bodard (France)--\"The Lost Xuyan Bride\"\u003cbr\u003eKristin Mandigma (Phillippines)--\"Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang\"\u003cbr\u003eAleksandar Žiljak (Croatia)--\"An Evening In The City Coffehouse, With Lydia on My Mind\"\u003cbr\u003eAnil Menon (India)--\"Into the Night\"\u003cbr\u003eMélanie Fazi (France, translated by Christopher Priest)--\"Elegy\"","brand":"Apex Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173163581680,"sku":"2940013580015","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013580015_p0.jpg?v=1763582992","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013580015","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}