Mandel Vilar Press:
Simsbury: 2018
First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New,
311 pp.


“We showcase here a wide selection of stories, whose authors range across the entire gamut of the modern Israeli SF/F scene: men and women; young and not-so-young; Israel-born and immigrants; professional writers as well as amateurs; some are living in Israel, some are expatriates. More than a few have already published stories overseas, for others this is their first foray into the international arena. Many are part and parcel of Israel's SF/F fandom (more about which, see below), others are mainstream writers who at some point in their careers decided to use SF/F tropes as the best vehicles for their message and their whimsy. All of them, however, share one thing in common: by adopting the tropes of speculative fiction, they have all bucked, if not kicked in the teeth, a deeply rooted, widely held and long-standing cultural aversion, shared by a preponderance of Israeli readers, writers, critics and scholars, to most manifestations of indigenously produced as well as imported science fiction, fantasy and horror. It is the underlying contradiction between the aforementioned science-fictional roots and this primal aversion that, we believe, renders the very publication of this book a wondrous event.” #62133

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