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Lavie Tidhar
Author · 70 books

Lavie Tidhar was raised on a kibbutz in Israel. He has travelled extensively since he was a teenager, living in South Africa, the UK, Laos, and the small island nation of Vanuatu. Tidhar began publishing with a poetry collection in Hebrew in 1998, but soon moved to fiction, becoming a prolific author of short stories early in the 21st century. Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs won the 2003 Clarke-Bradbury competition, sponsored by the European Space Agency, while The Night Train (2010) was a Sturgeon Award finalist. Linked story collection HebrewPunk (2007) contains stories of Jewish pulp fantasy. He co-wrote dark fantasy novel The Tel Aviv Dossier (2009) with Nir Yaniv. The Bookman Histories series, combining literary and historical characters with steampunk elements, includes The Bookman (2010), Camera Obscura (2011), and The Great Game (2012). Standalone novel Osama (2011) combines pulp adventure with a sophisticated look at the impact of terrorism. It won the 2012 World Fantasy Award, and was a finalist for the Campbell Memorial Award, British Science Fiction Award, and a Kitschie. His latest novels are Martian Sands and The Violent Century. Much of Tidhar’s best work is done at novella length, including An Occupation of Angels (2005), Cloud Permutations (2010), British Fantasy Award winner Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God (2011), and Jesus & the Eightfold Path (2011). Tidhar advocates bringing international SF to a wider audience, and has edited The Apex Book of World SF (2009) and The Apex Book of World SF 2 (2012). He is also editor-in-chief of the World SF Blog, and in 2011 was a finalist for a World Fantasy Award for his work there. He also edited A Dick and Jane Primer for Adults (2008); wrote Michael Marshall Smith: The Annotated Bibliography (2004); wrote weird picture book Going to The Moon (2012, with artist Paul McCaffery); and scripted one-shot comic Adolf Hitler’s I Dream of Ants! (2012, with artist Neil Struthers). Tidhar lives with his wife in London.

Series

Books

HebrewPunk book cover

HebrewPunk

2007

ParSec #4 book cover

ParSec #4

2022

Unholy Land book cover

Unholy Land

2018

The Projected Girl book cover

The Projected Girl

2013

In Xanadu book cover

In Xanadu

2019

Apex Magazine, Issue 27, August 2011 book cover

Apex Magazine, Issue 27, August 2011

2011

Central Station book cover

Central Station

2016

Apex Magazine Issue 35 book cover

Apex Magazine Issue 35

2012

Neom book cover

Neom

2022

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eight book cover

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eight

2013

Terminal book cover

Terminal

2016

GUD book cover

GUD

Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Issue 1

2007

The Escapement book cover

The Escapement

2021

New Atlantis book cover

New Atlantis

2020

Apex Magazine Issue 91 book cover

Apex Magazine Issue 91

2016

A Man Lies Dreaming book cover

A Man Lies Dreaming

2014

Dragonkin book cover

Dragonkin

2013

Rip-Off! book cover

Rip-Off!

2012

The Big Blind book cover

The Big Blind

2020

Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God book cover

Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God

2011

Maror book cover

Maror

2022

Selfies book cover

Selfies

2014

The Lunacy Commission book cover

The Lunacy Commission

2021

Martian Sands book cover

Martian Sands

2013

Fungi book cover

Fungi

2012

An Occupation of Angels book cover

An Occupation of Angels

2005

The Vanishing Kind book cover

The Vanishing Kind

2018

People of the Book book cover

People of the Book

A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy

2007

Phantom book cover

Phantom

2009

The Violent Century book cover

The Violent Century

2013

Apex Magazine Issue 101 book cover

Apex Magazine Issue 101

2017

Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021 book cover

Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021

2022

Nemonymous Three book cover

Nemonymous Three

2003

Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2020 edition book cover

Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2020 edition

2021

Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law book cover

Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law

2020

Drowned Worlds book cover

Drowned Worlds

2016

2084 book cover

2084

2017

phantastisch! Ausgabe 58 book cover

phantastisch! Ausgabe 58

2015

Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels book cover

Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels

2021

The Bookman book cover

The Bookman

2010

Jesus and the Eightfold Path book cover

Jesus and the Eightfold Path

2010

Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript book cover

Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript

2022

Yiwu book cover

Yiwu

2018

Apex Magazine, Issue 6, December 2009 book cover

Apex Magazine, Issue 6, December 2009

2010

Osama book cover

Osama

2011

Cloud Permutations book cover

Cloud Permutations

2010

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 62, November 2011 book cover

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 62, November 2011

2011

The Circumference of the World book cover

The Circumference of the World

2023

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6 book cover

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6

2022

Out of the Ruins book cover

Out of the Ruins

2021

The Tel Aviv Dossier book cover

The Tel Aviv Dossier

2009

Apex Magazine Issue 132 book cover

Apex Magazine Issue 132

2022

Adama book cover

Adama

2023

The Old Dispensation book cover

The Old Dispensation

2017

Apex Magazine, Issue 129, January 2022 book cover

Apex Magazine, Issue 129, January 2022

2022

Unidentified Funny Objects 9 book cover

Unidentified Funny Objects 9

2022

Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre book cover

Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre

2021

Apex Magazine Issue 116 book cover

Apex Magazine Issue 116

2018

GUD book cover

GUD

Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Issue 6

2010

The Hood book cover

The Hood

2021

Camera Obscura book cover

Camera Obscura

2010

The Candy Mafia book cover

The Candy Mafia

2018

Black Gods Kiss book cover

Black Gods Kiss

2014

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #314 book cover

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #314

2020

The Great Game book cover

The Great Game

2012

Art and War book cover

Art and War

Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction

2016

By Force Alone book cover

By Force Alone

2020

Seven Vampires book cover

Seven Vampires

2022

The Children's Book of the Future book cover

The Children's Book of the Future

2024

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 14, March 2022 book cover

Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 14, March 2022

2022

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