The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 2

Edited by Lavie Tidhar, the second volume of The Apex Book of World SF (2012) expands the scope of international speculative fiction with 14 stories from Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

The collection deliberately moves away from standard Anglo-American story structures, presenting non-Western perspectives on artificial intelligence, myth, displacement, space exploration, and postcolonial realities. The styles range from quiet, literary surrealism to razor-sharp military sci-fi and body horror.