THE STATE OF ISRAEL may be regarded as the quintessential Sci-Fi Nation - the only country on the planet inspired by not one, but two seminal works of wonder: the Hebrew Bible, and Zionist ideologue Theodor Herzl's early 20th-Century utopian novel, Altneuland (Old-New Land).

Foreword by Robert Silverberg (2,000 words)Introduction by Sheldon Teitelbaum and Emanuel Lottem (13,500 words)The Smell of Orange Groves by Lavie Tidhar (5,250 words)The Slows by Gail Hareven (4,000 words)Burn Alexandria by Keren Landsman (10,500 words)The Perfect Girl by Guy Hasson (18,650 words)Hunter of Stars by Nava Semel (6,000 words)The Believers by Nir Yaniv (3,650 words)In the Mirror by Rotem Baruchin (2,175 words)Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret (1,700 words)The Stern-Gerlach Mice by Mordechai Sasson (5,000 words)A Good Place for the Night by Savyon Liebrecht (14,200 words)Death in Jerusalem by Elana Gomel (7,800 words)White Curtain by Pesakh (Pavel) Amnuel (3,250 words)Two Minutes Too Early by Gur Shomron (4880 words)A Man's Dream by Yael Furman (4,175 words)My Crappy Autumn by Nitay Peretz (15,450 words)They Had to Move by Shimon Adaf (5,150 words)Afterword by Aharon Hauptman (950 words)The Editors (900 words)Acknowledgements (1,000 Words)