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Zion's fiction : a treasury of Israeli speculative literature / edited by Sheldon Teitelbaum and Emanuel Lottem ; foreword by Robert Silverberg ; afterword by Aharon Hauptman ; illustrations by Avi Katz.

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Simsbury, Connecticut : Mandel Vilar Press, [2018]

Israeli fiction.

Fantasy fiction, Israeli.

Speculative fiction.

Short stories, Israeli.

9781942134527 (paperback : alk. paper) :

1942134525 (paperback : alk. paper)

xvii, 311 pages ; 23 cm

Foreword / Robert Silverberg -- Introduction / Sheldon Teitelbaum and / Emanuel Lottem -- The smell of orange groves / Lavie Tidhar -- The slows / Gail Hareven -- Burn Alexandria / Keren Landsman -- The perfect girl / Guy Hasson -- Hunter of stars / Nava Semel -- The believers / Nir Yaniv -- Possibilities / Eyal Teler -- In the mirror / Rotem Baruchin -- The Stern-Gerlach mice / Mordechai Sasson -- A good place for the night / Savyon Liebrecht -- Death in Jerusalem / Elana Gomel -- White curtain / Pesakh (Pavel) Amnuel -- A man's dream / Yael Furman -- Two minutes too early / Gur Shomron -- My crappy autumn / Nitay Peretz -- They had to move / Shimon Adaf -- Afterword / Aharon Hauptman -- Acknowledgments -- About the contributors.

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.

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