Status Updates From The Best of World SF, Volume 2

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”.

Finished “Waking Nydra” (Samit Basu, India)