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Anthologies and non-fiction added, by month

New in November 2023

General anthologies added:

Eternally Yours  |  Recognize Fascism  |  The System Apocalypse: Short Story Anthology 2


New in October 2023

General anthologies added:

The Best of World SF, Volume 3


New in September 2023

General anthologies added:

Women Invent the Future


New in August 2023

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Weird World War: China

Non-fiction added:

Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction


New in July 2023

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed


New in February 2023

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Clutch, Brake, Sellerator and Other Stories

General anthologies added:

Stories from Quarantine

Non-fiction added:

Science Fiction Beyond Borders  |  Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction


New in December 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

The Dreams Before the Awakening  |  Moonlit Tales of the Macabre: Five Haunted Stories fom Russia

General anthologies added:

Aegri Somnia  |  Descended from Darkness / The Book of Apex

Non-fiction added:

Science Fiction Beyond Borders  |  Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction


New in November 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

7 Science Fiction Stories

General anthologies added:

Non-fiction added:


New in October 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Destination: SEA 2050 A.D. |  Eastern Heathens: An Anthology of Subverted Asian Folklore  |  Russian Science Fiction anthology series

General anthologies added:

87 Bedford Historic Fantasy Anthology  |  Adventures in Space  |  Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry

Non-fiction added:


New in September 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Drones & Dreams: A Speculative Sprint Story Collection  |  Oriental Tales of Terror

General anthologies added:

Diverse Energies

Non-fiction added:


New in July 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Fish Eats Lion Redux

General anthologies added:

Diverse Energies

Non-fiction added:

Notes for a Memoir: On Isaac Asimov, Life, and Writing


New in June 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Other Worlds

General anthologies added:

Dark Expanse: Surviving the Collapse

Non-fiction added:


New in May 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Fantasy from Asia and the Asian Diaspora: A Tordotcom Novella Sampler

General anthologies added:

The 1985 Annual World's Best SF  |  The 1986 Annual World's Best SF  |  The 1987 Annual World's Best SF  |  The 1989 Annual World's Best SF  |  The Best of World SF, Volume 1  |  The Best of World SF, Volume 2   |  World Science Fiction #2: Reloading the Future

Non-fiction added:

The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere


New in April 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Avatar अवतार: Indian Science Fiction / Fantascienza Indiana  |  Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction  |

New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction  |  Ruin and Resolve: Pinoy SF for Charity

General anthologies added:

Stranded: Lone Survivor Desert Island Horror Stories

Non-fiction added:

An Annotated Bibliography for Isaac Asimov  |  Locating the Anglo-Indian Self in Ruskin Bond


New in March 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Everything But Love

General anthologies added:

People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination


New in February 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Chinese Science Fiction  |  Ticket to Tomorrow and Other Stories  |  Ticket to Tomorrow: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy

General anthologies added:

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers  |  Strange to Tell: Stories of the Marvellous and Mysterious

Non-fiction added:

Understanding Chinese Fantasy Genres


New in January 2022

Asia-specific anthologies added:

2020: An Anthology  |  Best New Singaporean Short Stories  |  Best Singaporean Short Stories

General anthologies added:

Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold |  Strangest of All

Non-fiction added:

Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms  |  Science Fiction in India (Past, Present and Future)


New in December 2021

General anthologies added:

MIT Technology Review SF Annual  |  Sins and Other Worlds

Non-fiction added:

The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie


New in November 2021

Asia-specific anthologies added:

The Dreaming God  |  Inverted Kingdom  |  Night Voices, Night Journeys  |  Straight to Darkness  |  

Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction  |  This Is How You Walk on the Moon

General anthologies added:

Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery


New in October 2021

Asia-specific anthologies added:

The Dreaming God  |  Inverted Kingdom  |  Night Voices, Night Journeys  |  Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction  |  

Straight to Darkness  |  This Is How You Walk on the Moon

Non-fiction added:

Found in Translation: "New People" in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction


New in September 2021

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Be Me: LGBTQIA+ Stories of Belonging |  The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2  |

Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion  |  Remang: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales  |  Singa-Pura-Pura

General anthologies added:

In This Desert, There Were Seeds  |  Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology

Non-fiction added:

Alternative Dystopia: Science, Power and Fundamentalism in Rimi B. Chatterjee's Signal Red


New in August 2021

Asia-specific anthologies added:

3 Rays: Stories from Satyajit Ray  |  Demons of the New Year  |  Diaspora Ad Astra  |  Future Adventures of the Greater Bay Area  |

Kizuna: Fiction for Japan  |  Shadow People

General anthologies added:

Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy  |  Missions from the Extinction Cycle, Volume 1  |  Mohs 5.5: Megastructures  |

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

Non-fiction added:

The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction  |  Star Warriors of the Modern Raj


New in July 2021

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Dawning in the East

General anthologies added:

Sudoanthology

Non-fiction added:

Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives and Representations


New in June 2021

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Floating Clouds, Floating Dreams: Favorite Asian Folktales  |  Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic  |  

That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction

General anthologies added:

An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables  |  The Book of Dragons  |  Defying Doomsday |  

Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories  |  Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders |

Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts |  The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound |  

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices

Non-fiction added:

Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials


New in May 2021

Asia-specific anthologies added:

The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005–2010  |  Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women  |  Fantasy: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults  |  Ghost Stories from the Raj  |  Horror: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults  |  New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction  |  Sanctuary: Short Fiction from Queer Asia  |  Science Chronicles 2018  |  Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults  |  

The Way Spring Arrives

General anthologies added:

Consolation Songs  |  If This Goes On  |  The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu  |  Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories  |  

The Underwater Ballroom Society  |  The Vela: The Complete Season 1  |  A World of Horror

Non-fiction added:

Economic Science Fictions


New in March – April 2021

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Fast Food Fiction Delivery  |  Insignia #8: Castles & Kimono  |  KL Noir: Magic  |  Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology from the Philippines  |  

Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines  | World's Spring

General anthologies added:

An Invite to Eternity: Tales of Nature Disrupted  |  Everyone: Worlds Without Walls  |  The Empire Strikes Back: From a Certain Point of View  |  

Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures  |  Time Probe: The Sciences in Science Fiction

Non-fiction added:

Arab and Muslim Science Fiction: Critical Essays  |  Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from Around the World


New in May 2020 – February 2021

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Tower of Birds  |  When Questions Are Asked  |  Worlds Apart |  Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature

General anthologies added:

Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project  |  The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales  |  The System Apocalypse  |

TFF-X: Ten Years of The Future Fire

Non-fiction added:

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams  |  Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories  |  Indian Science Fiction Writers  |  Techno-Orientalism


New in April 2020

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Four Seasons in One Day  |  New Soviet Science Fiction  |  Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema  |  Science Fiction from China   |

A Visitor from Outer Space

General anthologies added:

Made to Order: Robots and Revolution  |  More Human Than Human  |  The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction  |  

The Road to Science Fiction 6: Around the World

Non-fiction added:

Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East

New in March 2020

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Soviet Science Fiction / More Soviet Science Fiction  |  Speculative Japan 2, 3 & 4

General anthologies added:

Deep Signal  |  Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors  |  World's Best Science Fiction / Annual World's Best SF

Non-fiction added:

Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East  |  Conversations with Isaac Asimov  |  Isaac Asimov

New in February 2020

Asia-specific anthologies added:

The Air of Mars and Other Stories of Time and Space  |  The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire  |  Hong Kong Future Perfect |  Hong Kong Noir  |

Immersion  |  Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Vols. 1–3  |  Red Star Tales  |  Science Chronicles  |  Singapore Science Fiction  |  

The Ultimate Threshold

General anthologies added:

Ages of Wonder  |  A People's Future of the United States  |  Cross-Worlds  |  The Immersion Book of Steampunk |  

The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk  |  Nature Futures  |  Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against |  World Science Fiction #1

New in December 2019 – January 2020

Asia-specific anthologies added:

In the Shadow of the Wall   |  The Reincarnated Giant   |  Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905

General anthologies added:

The Anderson Project   |  Carbide Tipped Pens  |  Drowned Worlds  |  Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean  |  Invisible  |

Lost and Found: Tales of Things Gone Missing  |  Mission Critical   |  Starlight   |  Worlds Seen in Passing

Non-fiction added:

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler

New in November 2019

Asia-specific anthologies added:

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vols. 2 & 3   |  City of Screams  |  Fifty Enthralling Stories of the Mysterious East  |  

The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories  |  Strange Worlds! Strange Times!   |  Vampiric: Tales of Blood and Roses from Japan

General anthologies added:

Akashic Books Noir series  |  Deep Space, Vol. 1  |  Fantastic Stories of the Imagination: PoC Flash Anthology   |  

Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements  |  The Time Traveller's Almanac   |  Still Dead  |  

The Triangulation anthology series  |  Worlds: A Dark Drabble Anthology  |  The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

New in October 2019

Asia-specific anthologies added:

Afraid: The Best Philippine Ghost Stories  |  Asian Monsters  |  Hauntings: Bangla Ghost Stories  |  Hungry in Ipoh  |  

KL Noir series  |  Last Door to Aiya  |  Lost in Putrajaya  |  Nine Supernatural Stories  |  Tales of Enchantment and Fantasy

General anthologies added:

The New Accelerator  |  Pen-Ultimate  |  There Will Be War series  |  the UnCommon anthologies

Non-fiction added:

With Both Feet on the Clouds

New in September 2019

Asia-specific anthologies added:

The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories  |  Broken Stars  |  The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction  |  

Insignia anthology series |  Mekong Shadows  |  Of Kami and Yokai  |  Phantasm Japan  |  Pre-Revolutionary Russian Science Fiction  |  

Saiensu Fikushon 2016   | The Scientific Indian  |  A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

General anthologies added:

Battling in All Her Finery  |  Because You Love to Hate Me  |  The Edge of Space  |  End of the Road  |  Shine  |  Steampunk World  |  

Steampunk Writers Around the World  |  Steampunk Universe  |  Thoughtcrime Experiments  |  Up and Coming

Progress added monthly (log begun September 2019).