The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4 (Paperback) by Lavie Tidhar, Mahvesh Murad, Johann Thorsson

from cuentosalgernon

The new volume of The Apex Book of World SF series is another solid and varied anthology. Although I knew around a third of the authors and I had already read six of the stories, I had never heard about half of the authors compiled here and I was looking forward to discovering some new interestin...

from Strider66

Pros: wide variety of authors and subgenres, several excellent stories Cons: several confusing stories, no grouping together of similar stories The 28 stories in this collection are written by authors from around the world, covering a number of SFF genres. While most of the stories were good to e...

from reading_fox

A mixed collection of short stories from authors around the world featuring a very wide range of stories only some of which would fall under the normal umbrella of Science Fiction, although all would be found under Speculative. As might be expected there are a lot of references to non-Western cul...

from Cfraser

I enjoyed this book more than the previous early reviewers book of short stories I received, although the stories were mixed in quality. Some of them I really enjoyed, some of them were very much in the Horror genre and too much for me. I liked the diversity of stories - both in topic and in auth...

from Kellswitch

This is the fourth volume in the Apex series of World SF. I have been having a hard time composing my review for this book, my issues are not with the quality of the stories, many of them were quite interesting and well written but they seemed more like folk tales, horror and fantasy then science...