These are the stories of people who live at night: under neon and starlight, and never the light of the sun.These are the stories of poets and police, tourists and traders; the hidden and the forbidden; the lonely and the lovers.This is their time.The Outcast Hours gathers over two dozen brand-new stories from award-winning writers across genres and continents, including bold new fiction from Marina Warner, Frances Hardinge, China Miéville, Sami Shah, Omar Robert Hamilton, Kuzhali Manickavel, Will Hill, Indrapramit Das, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Jeffrey Alan Love, Maha Khan Phillips, and many, many more.

Now firmly established as the benchmark anthology series of international speculative fiction, volume 4 of The Apex Book of World SF sees debut editor Mahvesh Murad bring fresh new eyes to her selection of stories.From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and subverted Japanese folktales, from love in the time of drones to teenagers at the end of the world, the stories in this volume showcase the best of contemporary speculative fiction, wherever it's written."Important to the future of not only international authors, but the entire SF community."—Strange HorizonsFeaturing:Vajra Chandrasekera (Sri Lanka) — "Pockets Full of Stones"Yukimi Ogawa (Japan) — "In Her Head, In Her Eyes"Zen Cho (Malaysia) — "The Four Generations of Chang E"Shimon Adaf (Israel) — "Like A Coin Entrusted in Faith" (Translated by the author)Celeste Rita Baker (Virgin Islands) — "Single Entry"Nene Ormes (Sweden) — "The Good Matter" (Translated Lisa J Isaksson and Nene Ormes)JY Yang...

A fascinating collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers.Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn.And they are everywhere. On street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, between the pages of books. Every language has a word for them. Every culture knows their traditions. Every religion, every history has them hiding in their dark places.There is no part of the world that does not know them. They are the Djinn. They are among us...