More Zion's Fiction

<p>Forget about start-up nation! Inspired by a science fiction novel - the 1903 proto-Steampunk utopia <em>Old New Land</em> by Theodor Herzl - the State of Israel is the quintessential science fiction nation.</p><p><br></p><p>Enter <em>More Zion's Fiction: Wondrous Tales from the Israeli ImagiNation</em> the second of an authoritative three-volume English language collection of Israeli speculative fiction.</p><p><br></p><p>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. </p>