Status Updates From The Best of World SF: Volume 2

Finished “The Farctory” (K. A. Teryna, Russia)

Finished “The Substance of Ideas” (Clelia Farris, Italy)

Finished “A Flaw in the Works” (Julie Nováková, Czech Republic)

Finished “Beyond These Stars Other Tribulations of Love” (Usman T. Malik, Pakistan)

Finished “The Regression Test” (Wole Talabi, Nigeria)

Finished “To Set at Twilight in a Land of Reeds” (Natalia Theodoridou, Greece)

Finished “The Easthound” (Nalo Hopkinson, Jamaica)

Finished “Blue Grey Blue” (Yukimi Ogawa, Japan)

Finished “At Desk 9501…” (Frances Ogamba, Nigeria)

Finished “The Ten-Percent Thief” (Lavanya Lakshminarayan, India)

Finished “Whale Snows Down” (Kim Bo-Young, Korea)

Finished “Between the Firmaments” (Neon Yang, Singapore)

Finished “Bring Your Own Spoon” (Saad Z. Hossain, Bangladesh)

Finished “The Next Move” (Edmundo Paz Soldán, Bolivia)

Finished “Salvaging Gods” (Jacques Barcia, Brazil)

Finished “The Gardens of Babylon” (Hassan Blasim, Iraq)

Finished “Corialis” (T.L. Huchu, Zimbabwe)

Finished “The Mighty Slinger” (Tobias S. Buckell and Karen Lord, Barbados and Grenada)

Finished “When We Die on Mars” (Cassandra Khaw, Malaysia)

Finished “Your Multicolored Life” (Xing He, China)

Finished “Kakak” (William Tham Wai Liang, Malaysia)

Finished “Dead Man, Awake, Sing to the Sun!” (Pan Haitian, China)

Finished “The Beast Has Died” (Bef, Mexico)

Finished “Twenty About Robots” (Alberto Chimal, Mexico)

One thing I’ve missed about the states (or at least my state) is the sheer number of libraries and, of course, all the books I can read in English for free! Especially science fiction anthologies. Sitting in the sun reading this one during a work break is a delightful treat.

4 stars for the uplifting message of Nadia Afifi’s “The Bahrain Underground Bazaar”.