Zion's fiction
Subtitle: a treasury of Israeli speculative literature
By: edited by Sheldon Teitelbaum and Emanuel Lottem ; foreword by Robert Silverberg ; afterword by Aharon Hauptman ; illustrations by Avi Katz
Contributors: Loṭem, ʻImanuʼel, editor
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781942134527
Subjects: Science fiction; Israeli Fantasy fiction; Israeli fiction; Speculative fiction; Israeli Short stories
Description: This anthology showcases the best Israeli science fiction and fantasy literature published since the 1980s. The stories included come from Hebrew, Russian, and English-language sources, and include well-known authors such as Shimon Adaf, Pesach (Pavel) Amnuel, Gail Hareven, Savyon Liebrecht, Nava Semel and Lavie Tidhar, as well as a hot-list of newly translated Israeli writers. The book features an historical and contemporary survey of Israeli science fiction and fantasy literature by the editors, a foreword by revered SF/F writer Robert Silverberg, an afterword by Dr. Aharon Hauptman, the founding editor of Fantasia 2000, Israel's seminal SF/F magazine, an author biography for each story, and illustrations for each story by award winning American-born Israeli artist, Avi Katz.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Smell of organge groves  -- Lavie Tidhar; title: Slows  -- Gail Hareven -- Burn Alexandria / -- Keren Landsman; title: Perfect girl  -- Guy Hasson; title: Hunter of stars  -- Nava Semel; title: Believers  -- Nir Yaniv; title: Possibilities  -- Eyal Teler; title: In the mirror  -- Rotem Baruchin; title: Stern-Gerlach mice  -- Mordechai Sasson; title: Good place for the night  -- Savyon Liebrecht; title: Death in Jerusalem  -- Elana Gomel; title: White curtain  -- Pesakh (Pavel) Amnuel -- Man's dream / -- Yael Furman; title: Two minutes too early  -- Gur Shomron; title: My crappy autumn  -- Nitay Peretz; title: They had to move  -- Shimon Adaf; title: Afterword -- Aharon Hauprman.