# World SF > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/World_SF > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/World_SF.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_SF > Source revision: 1336604222 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) '''World SF''' is a loose term for international, or global, speculative fiction, predominantly from the non-Anglophone world. An early use of the term came with the establishment of ''World SF'', an association of SF professionals in 1976.The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition, "World SF" http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/world_sf According to the third edition of [the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction](/source/the_Encyclopedia_of_Science_Fiction), the term was partly revived by the author [Lavie Tidhar](/source/Lavie_Tidhar), leading to the establishment of the ''World SF Blog'',{{cite web|url=http://worldsf.wordpress.com/|title=The World SF Blog|work=The World SF Blog}} which ran 2009-2013. Early on, the Filipino blogger Charles A. Tan became involved with the blog, contributing much of the original material - including interviews with authors, reviews and the occasional editorial, including the important ''World SF: Our Possible Future'' in 2012.{{cite web|url=https://worldsf.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/world-sf-our-possible-future/|title=World SF: Our Possible Future|work=The World SF Blog}} Tan was himself twice nominated for the World Fantasy Award, for his own blog, ''Bibliophile Stalker'',{{cite web|url=http://charles-tan.blogspot.co.uk/|title=Bibliophile Stalker|author=Charles|publisher=}} and has edited several anthologies of Filipino speculative fiction. For his work on the promotion of global speculative fiction, Tidhar was nominated for a [World Fantasy Award](/source/World_Fantasy_Award) in 2011,{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2011.html |title=2011 World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees |access-date=2014-09-07 |archive-date=2013-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112224238/http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2011.html |url-status=dead }} and won a 2012 [BSFA Award](/source/BSFA_Award) for Non-Fiction in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards/|title=BSFA|work=BSFA - The official website of the British Science Fiction Association}} The Polish SF scholar Konrad Walewski argued that "Tidhar deliberately utilized the term World SF as a specific act of disagreement and dissatisfaction with what he considered to be the gradual ossification of the original organization".{{cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/world_sf|title=Culture : World SF : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|publisher=}} In parallel, Tidhar edited three anthologies of World SF, ''The Apex Book of World SF'' series, between 2009-2014. Significant authors featured in the series included [Lauren Beukes](/source/Lauren_Beukes) (South Africa), Zoran Živković (Serbia), [Aliette de Bodard](/source/Aliette_de_Bodard) (France), [Hannu Rajaniemi](/source/Hannu_Rajaniemi) (Finland), [Xia Jia](/source/Xia_Jia) (China), [Karin Tidbeck](/source/Karin_Tidbeck) (Sweden), [Guy Hasson](/source/Guy_Hasson) (Israel), [Tunku Halim](/source/Tunku_Halim) (Malaysia), [Samit Basu](/source/Samit_Basu) (India), [Ekaterina Sedia](/source/Ekaterina_Sedia) (Russia) and many others. The series was continued in 2015 with a fourth volume edited by [Mahvesh Murad](/source/Mahvesh_Murad), with Tidhar remaining as series editor.{{cite web|url=http://www.tor.com/2015/07/15/cover-art-and-table-of-contents-for-the-apex-book-of-world-sf-4/|title=Cover Art and Table of Contents for The Apex Book of World SF 4!|work=Tor.com}} The series ended with a fifth volume edited by Cristina Jurado. In 2021, Tidhar launched a new series of large hardback anthologies, ''The Best of World SF'', which ran for three volumes. World SF should not be confused with [WorldCon](/source/WorldCon) which, despite its name, is a predominantly (though not exclusively) American institution. ==Further reading== ===Anthologies=== The Apex Book of World SF series * ''The Apex Book of World SF'', ed. Lavie Tidhar, Apex Book Company, 2009 * ''The Apex Book of World SF 2'', ed. Lavie Tidhar, Apex Book Company, 2012 * ''The Apex Book of World SF 3'', ed. Lavie Tidhar, Apex Book Company, 2014 * ''The Apex Book of World SF 4'', ed. Mahvesh Murad, Apex Book Company, 2015 * ''The Apex Book of World SF 5'', ed. Cristina Jurado, Apex Book Company, 2018 The Best of World SF series * ''The Best of World SF: Volume 1'', ed. Lavie Tidhar, Head of Zeus, 2021. * ''The Best of World SF: Volume 2'', ed. Lavie Tidhar, Head of Zeus, 2022. * ''The Best of World SF: Volume 3'', ed. Lavie Tidhar, Head of Zeus, 2023. Other * ''Three Messages and A Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic'', ed.Eduardo Jiménez Mayo and Chris N. Brown, Small Beer Press, 2012 * ''The Future is Japanese'', ed. Nick Mamatas, Haikasoru, 2012 ===Novels=== * ''Turbulence'', Samit Basu, Titan Books, 2012 * ''The Secret History of Moscow'', Ekaterina Sedia, Prime Books, 2007 * ''Zoo City'', Lauren Beukes, Angry Robot, 2010 * ''All You Need is Kill'', [Hiroshi Sakurazaka](/source/Hiroshi_Sakurazaka), Haikasoru, 2009 (basis for the ''Edge of Tomorrow'') * ''Sunburnt Faces'', [Shimon Adaf](/source/Shimon_Adaf), PS Publishing 2013 ===Short story collections=== * ''Jagganath'', Karin Tidbeck, Cheeky Frawg, 2012 ==References== Category:Science fiction literature --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [World SF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_SF) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_SF?action=history)). 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