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. 

David Brin, Elana Gomel, Keren Landsman, Guy Hasson, Hila Benyovitz-Hoffman, Avram Davidson, Rami Shalheveth, Lili Daie, Nadav Almog, Pesach Amnuel, Hamutal Levin, Yivsam Azgad, Gail Harven, Assaf Gavron, Galit Dahan Carlibach, Yael Furman, Dana Feldman, Rotem Baruchin, Ehud Maimon, Marleen S. Barr.