More Zion's Fiction

Forget about start-up nation! Inspired by a science fiction novel—the 1903 proto-Steampunk utopia Old New Land by Theodor Herzl—the State of Israel is the quintessential science fiction nation.

Enter, More Zion's Fiction: Wondrous Tales from the Israeli ImagiNation, the second of an authoritative three-volume English language collection of Israeli speculative fiction.

Herzl, the Austrian journalist once famously declared: "If you will it, it is no dream." Herzl's dream was to create a modern Jewish state in the historical homeland of the Jewish people. Ours is to forge out a literary refuge for the kind of unbridled literary fancy his aspirants, tasked with transforming his science-fictional vision into a hardscrabble reality, could not bring themselves to accomplish. Yours, we hope, will be to help us pry open a long-shuttered window into the dreams and nightmares of a nation quite unlike any other.

"The Israeli Dangerous Visions." —Nat Segaloff, Harlan Ellison's biographer

"Remarkably vigorous, inventive and lucid." —Barry N. Malzberg

"This notable anthology is appropriate for all sf fans and a valuable resource for any library." —Michael A. Burstein

"What we come away with, finally, is a sense that Israeli fantasy and SF is as lively and rewarding as any body of SF, and just as diverse - both in terms of the topics and themes and in terms of modes of writing, which range from the seriously literary and almost postmodern to playful celebrations of older SF traditions." —Gary K. Wolfe, Locus Magazine

"Zion's Fiction is not only an excellent collection of speculative fiction from Israel but also a book that makes us think anew about the real challenges the world must face in the future... Zion's Fiction opens our eyes to the creativity and literary invention happening beyond our borders and makes us long for more." —Rachel S. Cordasco, World Literature Today

"From beginning to end, the collection delights, informs and educates - for readers seeking something different, this one's a real gem." —Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction

"A coming of age of Israeli speculative fiction, and yes it is throughly mimetic science fiction, and more than that, on the cutting edge of speculative fiction period." —Norman Spinrad, Asimov's Science Fiction

"The high quality of work makes this anthology enjoyable and accessible for any fan of speculative fiction." —Publishers Weekly

"The stories, of course, are the real attraction, and 'treasury' is exactly the right word to describe what we find in the collection. Buried in these fascinating exercises in imaginative fiction are glimpses of the anxieties and aspirations of the real Israel." —The Jewish Journal

“The complex and challenging stories collected in Zion's Fiction are a welcome addition to the world of speculative literature.” —Jewish Book Council

"This is a compilation of good writing, pure and simple." —Amazing Stories

"Beyond being good reading, perhaps the greatest appeal of this collection is the insight its stories give into the mind and attitudes of a place that is, in many ways, similar to the USA (a democracy, modern, and industrial) and yet very different, as a nation under virtual siege for two generations." —Galaxy's Edge