Looks great. I always find it a bit strange that the only SF books I read are exclusively written by native English speakers, especially ones from Britain and the U.S. In more mainstream fiction, you'll find a lot more international works translated from other languages, but for modern SF, they're harder to find. Thanks for this. posted by zardoz at 6:27 PM on November 19, 2009
At the risk of being cynical, it's hard to take this seriously as a collection of "worldwide SF" when not a single story is by a writer from South America or Africa. posted by Target Practice at 9:37 PM on November 21, 2009
>At the risk of being cynical, it's hard to take this seriously as a collection of "worldwide SF" when not a single story is by a writer from South America or Africa.
Christ, I hate this kind of automatic snark. Right, it's impossible to take an international collection seriously unless it has representatives from every single country in the world. I noticed they don't have any Russian SF either, but so fucking what? It's one book. If it does well, there will probably be others, doubtless with stories from South America and Africa. But you would apparently prefer to have no anthology at all rather than one that isn't your impossible dream of an all-inclusive one.
I would also point out that Latin American SF, like Russian SF, is a strong enough tradition that it has had anthologies of its own, and so perhaps there is a case for including less prominent traditions here. I don't know about Africa; if you're an expert on African SF, perhaps you could suggest some candidates. posted by languagehat at 6:43 AM on November 22, 2009
Well, Africa did have the biggest SF film hit of 2009.
( if you ignore some higher grossing stuff that is only nominaly Science Fiction) posted by Artw at 9:30 AM on November 22, 2009
posted by zardoz at 6:27 PM on November 19, 2009