More Zion's Fiction: Wondrous Tales from the Israeli ImagiNation

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 Zions 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. Herzls 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.