The Apex Book of World SF
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Series | The Apex Book of World SF #1 |
| Publisher | Apex Publications |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Type | Anthology |
| Cover art | Randall MacDonald |
| Pages | 287 |
| Price | $18.95 |
| ISBN | 9780982159637 |
- Stated "First Edition, September 2009"
- No number line
- Cover artist credit per copyright page
- The price is printed on back cover
- Each story has a separate title page containing a short paragraph about the author. Recorded page numbers are for the title pages.
- Translation credits per copyright page
- "The Wheel of Samsara" translated by author (Han Song)
- "Wizard World" translated by author (Yang Ping)
- "An Evening in the City Coffeehouse, with Lydia on My Mind" translated by author (Aleksandar Ziljak)
- "Compartments" translated by Alice Copple-Tošić
- "Cinderers" & "Elegy" have translation copyrights (Lavie Tidhar & Christopher Priest respectively), but don't specifically state "translated by" like other records
- "The Levantine Experiments" does not have a translation credit.
- "Elegy" is credited to Mélanie Fazie on the story title page and story page headers, but as Mélanie Fazi in the table of contents and copyright page. As Fazie appears to be an error vs. intentional crediting, Fazi has been used.
- books.google.com uses a later cover image
| Year | Reviewer | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Tony C. Smith | StarShipSofa, No 108 |
| 2009 | Andy Sawyer | Strange Horizons, 21 December 2009 |
| 2010 | Rich Horton | Locus, #590 March 2010 |
| 2013 | Rich Horton | Argentus, #13 |
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | The Bird Catcher | S. P. Somtow | Novelette |
| 34 | Transcendence Express | Jetse de Vries | Short Story |
| 50 | The Levantine Experiments | Guy Hasson | Short Story |
| 66 | The Wheel of Samsara | Han Song | Short Story |
| 74 | Ghost Jail | Kaaron Warren | Short Story |
| 94 | Wizard World | Yang Ping | Novelette |
| 116 | L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) | Dean Francis Alfar | Short Story |
| 128 | Cinderers | Nir Yaniv | Short Story |
| 142 | The Allah Stairs | Jamil Nasir | Short Story |
| 152 | Biggest Baddest Bomoh | Tunku Halim | Short Story |
| 162 | The Lost Xuyan Bride | Aliette de Bodard | Novelette |
| 194 | Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-Realist Aswang | Kristin Mandigma | Short Story |
| 198 | An Evening in the City Coffeehouse, with Lydia on My Mind | Alexsandar Ziljak | Short Story |
| 216 | Into the Night | Anil Menon | Short Story |
| 232 | Elegy | Mélanie Fazi | Short Story |
| 242 | Compartments | Zoran Živković | Novelette |
| bp | Introduction (The Apex Book of World SF) | Lavie Tidhar | Essay |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Apex Book of World SF | 2009 | Apex Publications | eBook | Anthology | Randall MacDonald | 329 | ||
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2015 | Apex Publications | Trade Paperback | Anthology | Sarah Anne Langton | 302 |