New Article on Chinese SF

 A new and very in-depth article on Chinese SF - Hesitant Journey to the West: SF’s Changing Fortunes in Mainland China, by Mikael Huss - is now available online at the Sina Blog. Well worth checking out and, of course, we'll be posting more on Chinese SF.Two Chinese writers contribute to the Apex Book of World...

South African Speculative Fiction, Part Two: Something Wicked

 Something Wicked is the first South African magazine devoted to "horror and science fiction", and has recently reached its ninth issue. It is available in both print and PDF formats, and showcases short fiction from South African writers (it also publishes some overseas writers). Several of the issues have been reviewed online over at The Fix,...

South African Speculative Fiction, Part One

South African science fiction writer Nick Wood is the author of one YA novel published in SA, The Stone Chameleon, and several short stories, of which you can read his "African Shadows" over at Infinity Plus. Nick has also been writing a series of articles about African and South African speculative fiction, which I highly recommend...

Danish Science Fiction

And here is a brief overview of Danish Science Fiction Between 2004 and 2007, by Janus Andersen, courtesy of that excellent web site, Concatenation. 

International SF stories in free issue 10 of Shimmer Magazine

Issue 10 of Shimmer Magazine is now available for download as a free PDF, and contains stories from (World SF anthology contributor) Nir Yaniv, Indian-born writer Shweta Narayan and Mexican writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia (plus many other fine writers).Check it out.

The Apex Book of World SF now available for pre-orders!

The Apex Book of World SF is now available for pre-orders! All pre-orders come with free shipping in the United States.Please consider supporting this project by pre-ordering a copy, blogging about the anthology or this blog itself - or both! Here's the full table of contents again:S.P. Somtow(Thailand)--"The Bird Catcher"Jetse de Vries(Netherlands)--"Transcendence Express"Guy Hasson (Israel)--"The...

Congratulations to Aliette De Bodard!

 Rising star of genre fiction, not to mention contributor to The Apex Book of World SF (with a wonderful alternative history detective story) is nominated for the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Congratulations Aliette!

Charles Tan on Promoting Philippine Speculative Fiction

Charles Tan has a new essay up on his blog: Why I Promote Philippine Speculative Fiction:"Let me clarify something though. It's not just Philippine speculative fiction that needs to be championed. There's a lot of other speculative fiction from other cultures out there, whether it's China, Korea, India, Russia, Poland, or some other country which we...

Malaysian Horror and One-Week Break

 I'm off to Malaysia for a week, so there won't be any updates in that time.But in the meantime...Checkout Dark City, the blog dedicated to an original anthology series of the same name. The anthology collects short Malaysian horror stories, most with a twist-in-the-tale, and edited by Xeus. There have been two volumes so far,...

…and a story by Shweta Narayan at Strange Horizons

 A good week for international sf, by the looks of things - not only the Jean-Claude Dunyach story over at Fantasy, but also Nira and I, by new writer Shweta Narayan, over at Strange Horizons.From her website:I'm a writer, academic, and cultural crazy-quilt; I was born in India and lived in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands,...