I have loved science fiction since I was a small child. It is the genre I return to most often. It's also a genre that I step back from when I feel it gets a little too same-stuff-different-book.

This book gave me a real appreciation for the ideas and nuances that people around the world bring to science fiction. The stories are interesting, and the book wends its way through ideas and tropes. I tend to dip in an out of short story collections, and this one was no exception. But I realized rather quickly that this collection is one I will enjoy completely.

Loved this book and the fresh perspective it brings.

The second volume of a "Best of" makes me think maybe the stories included are the "best of the rest" that didn't quite make it to the first volume... Not so with "The Best of World SF: 2". The opening story raised the hairs on my arms, and they didn't settle down for the entire book. This collection includes some truly remarkable imaginations, excellent writing, great characters, and a whole heap of brilliant stories.

My thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley. This review was written voluntarily and is entirely my own, unbiased, opinion.

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for this gem.
The first thing I thought after finished this book, is : Enjoyable
The Best of World SF : 2 sure had many representations, I really enjoyed the SF stories from different countries.
I should pick up the first book now

You know what? This book was such a joy to read, so many stories, and many of these it was a discovery to get to know a new author, yes I will take more notice of some of the names in this book and actively search for more books and more stories, and to make things better, you have stories from people from all world from all the backgrounds, from Brazil to Iraq, I think I never had read a story from a Korean sci-fi author.

Actually in this book I didn’t skip stories, so I can say that actually this one is one of the best short stories collection, of course I did like some better than others, but I think that has more to do with personal experience or if the story had more to do with fantasy than sci-fi, (i don't really care for fantasy stories, even thou Mr. Tidhar tried to chose only sci-fi, sci-fi is really vast, it can go really far).

We have stories that talk about death, life, colors, food, space, is as deep as the ocean... From the top of my head I really did love one about young kids trying to survive, and they know that when they grow they will become dangerous to the younger ones, there's also a story that people die but are still “alive” so about zombies, hahah there’s gods found in the middle of the garbage and if assembled right, can make your wishes true, an office that sells life in exchange of less years of life of his employees, yeah a bit for everyone. I could share a list of the story names and authors, and if requested I will share.

But I really recommend this book, this is one of the best anthologies of short stories I have read this year, I really congratulate Mr. Tidhar, the stories he chose make sense together.

Thank you NetGalley and Head of Zeus for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.

What a treat!!! Sci-fi from around the world, conveying so many different and complementary cultural and political perspectives. Refreshingly non-US/U.K. origins and thoroughly engaging enough to keep me reading late at night! More like this, please!!!