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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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e S.P. Somtow(Thailand)-The Bird Catcher\u003cbr\u003e Jetse de Vries(Netherlands)-Transcendence Express\u003cbr\u003e Guy Hasson (Israel)-The Levantine Experiments\u003cbr\u003e Han Song (China)-The Wheel of Samsara\u003cbr\u003e Kaaron Warren (Australia\/Fiji)-Ghost Jail\u003cbr\u003e Yang Ping (China)-Wizard World\u003cbr\u003e Dean Francis Alfar (Philippines)-L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)\u003cbr\u003e Nir Yaniv (Israel)-Cinderers\u003cbr\u003e Jamil Nasir (Palestine)-The Allah Stairs\u003cbr\u003e Tunku Halim (Malaysia)-Biggest Baddest Bomoh\u003cbr\u003e Aliette de Bodard (France)-The Lost Xuyan Bride\u003cbr\u003e Kristin Mandigma (Philippines)-Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang\u003cbr\u003e Aleksandar Ziljak (Croatia)-An Evening In The City Coffehouse, With Lydia On My Mind\u003cbr\u003e Anil Menon (India)-Into the Night\u003cbr\u003e Melanie Fazi (France, translated by Christopher Priest)-Elegy\u003cbr\u003e Zoran Zivkovic (Serbia, translated by Alice Copple-Tosic)-Compartments\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom S.P. Somtow's World Fantasy Award-winning The Bird Catcher, a restrained horror tale of a young boy's friendship with Thailand's most infamous human monster, to Wizard World, Galaxy Award winner Yang Ping's story of high-tech gamers, this extraordinary anthology of 16 tales introduces English-speaking readers to some of the world's best writers of sf, horror, fantasy, and metafiction. Contributors include Jamil Nasir (Palestine), Aleksandar Ziljak (Croatia), Guy Hasson (Israel), Kaaron Warren (Australia\/Fiji), and Jetse de Vries (Netherlands). VERDICT This literary window into the international world of imaginative fiction, the first in a new series, is sure to appeal to adventurous sf fans and readers of fiction in translation.\u003cbr\u003e -Library Journal, August 2009\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe great thing about Tidhar's collection is that it is full of such masterpieces. You do have to get used to having your mind warped as if by some powerful psychedelic. You'll definitely feel that way after Zoran Zivkovic and his Godot-like explorations. Or after Guy Hassan's thought experiment about the nature of mind and thought. 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In \u003ci\u003eThe Apex Book of World SF 2\u003c\/i\u003e, World Fantasy Award-nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist fantasy from Russia and epic fantasy from Poland; near-future tales from Mexico and Finland, as well as cyberpunk from South Africa. 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Some are translations (from German, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Swedish), and some were written in English. The authors herein come from Asia and Europe, Africa and Latin America. Their stories are all wondrous and wonderful, and showcase the vitality and diversity that can be found in the field. They are a conversation, by voices that should be heart. 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