The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5, edited by Cristina Jurado, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from South America, southeast Asia, First Nations, and Africa.

Cyberpunk from Spain, Singapore, and Japan; mythology from Venezuela, Korea, and First Nations; stories of the dead from Zimbabwe and Egypt, and space wonders from India, Germany, and Bolivia. And much more. The fifth volume of the ground-breaking World SF anthology series reveals once more the uniquely international dimension of speculative fiction.

Contains the following stories from around the world:

Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Singapore) - "A Series of Steaks" Daína Chaviano (Cuba, translated by Matthew D. Goodwin) - "Accursed Lineage" Darcie Little Badger (USA/Lipan Apache) - "Nkásht íí" T.L. Huchu (Zimbabwe) - "Ghostalker" Taiyo Fujii (Japan, translated by Jim Hubbert) - "Violation of the TrueNet Security Act" Vandana Singh (India) - "Ambiguity Machines: An Examination" Basma Abdel Aziz (Egypt, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette) - "Scenes from the Life of an Autocrat" Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia, translated by Jessica Sequeira) - "Our Dead World" Bo-young Kim (South Korea, translated by Jihyun Park & Gord Sellar) - "An Evolutionary Myth" Israel Alonso (Spain, translated by Steve Redwood) - "You Will See the Moon Rise" Sara Saab (Lebanon) - "The Barrette Girls" Chi Hui (China, translated by John Chu) - "The Calculations of Artificials" Ana Hurtado (Venezuela) - "El Cóndor del Machángara" Karla Schmidt (Germany, translated by Lara M. Harmon) - "Alone, on the Wind" Eliza Victoria (Philippines) - "The Seventh" Tochi Onyebuchi (Nigeria/USA) - "Screamers" R.S.A. Garcia (Trinidad and Tobago) - "The Bois" Giovanni De Feo (Italy) - "Ugo"