Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar
Born	Israel
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Israeli/South African
Genres	Multiple
Notable work(s)	Osama; The Bookman Histories

Lavie Tidhar (Hebrew: לביא תדהר‎) is an Israeli born writer. He lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time. He had also lived in Vanuatu and Laos.

Early life

Tidhar grew up in the communal atmosphere of an Israeli Kibbutz. He began to travel extensively from the age of 15 and incorporates his experiences as a traveller into several of his works.

Achievements

He was the winner, in 2003, of the first Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition sponsored by the European Space Agency and, in 2005, was a Writers of the Future finalist. He was nominated for an Israeli Geffen Award in 2006 and again in 2010 and 2011. He was nominated for a WSFA Small Press Award in 2009, and won a 2010 Last Drink Bird Head Award for his work in promoting international speculative fiction. He was nominated in 2011 for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short story, for his story "The Night Train". He was nominated in 2011 for the World Fantasy Award in the Special Award - non Professional category, for his work on the World SF Blog. He is a 2012 BSFA Award nominee for Osama in the Best Novel category.

Bibliography

Novels

The Bookman Histories

• The Bookman. Angry Robot Books, 2010.
• Camera Obscura. Angry Robot Books, 2011.
• The Great Game. Angry Robot Books, 2012.

Others

• Osama. PS Publishing, 2011.
• Martian Sands. Apex Books, forthcoming 2013.
• The Tel Aviv Dossier. Canada: ChiZine Publications, 2009. With Nir Yaniv.

Novellas

• An Occupation of Angels. United Kingdom: Pendragon press 2005. United States: Apex Publications 2010.
• Cloud Permutations. United Kingdom: PS Publishing 2010.
• Gorel and The Pot-Bellied God. United Kingdom: PS Publishing 2011.
• Jesus & The Eightfold Path. United Kingdom: Immersion Press 2011.

Collections

• HebrewPunk. United States: Apex Publications. 2007. A collection of four linked short stories re-imagining pulp fantasy in Jewish terms.

As Editor

• The Apex Book of World SF. United States: Apex Publications. 2009. Anthology of international SF/F stories.
• The Apex Book of World SF 2. United States: Apex Publications. Forthcoming 2012.
• A Dick & Jane Primer for Adults. United Kingdom: British Fantasy Society Publications, 2008

Short stories

Selected Anthologies

• "The Night Train", Strange Horizons, 2010. Reprinted in both Gardner Dozois's The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection and in Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5.
• "The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String", Fantasy Magazine 2010. Reprinted in Gardner Dozois's The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection
• "The Integrity of the Chain", Fantasy Magazine, 2009. Reprinted in Gardner Dozois' The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty Seventh Annual Collection
• "Lode Stars” - The Immersion Book of SF, edited by Carmelo Rafala, Immersion Press 2010
• “To The Jerusalem Crater”, Dark Faith, edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, Apex Books 2010
• “The Solnet Ascendancy”, Shine, edited by Jetse de Vries, Solaris 2010
• “The Love-Craft” - Postscripts anthology series, edited by Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers, PS Publishing, 2009
• “Shoes” – Interfictions II, edited by Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak, Small Beer Press 2009
• “Set Down This” – Phantom, edited by Sean Wallace and Paul Tremblay, Prime Books 2009
• “One Day, Soon” - Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Comics 2009
• “Shira” – The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow, Del Rey 2008
• “My travels with Al-Qaeda” – Salon Fantastique, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling, Thunder’s Mouth Press 2006
• “Bophuthatswana” – Glorifying Terrorism, edited by Farah Mendlesohn, 2007

Selected Stories in Online Magazines

• "Aphrodisia", Strange Horizons, 2010
• "Butterfly and the Blight at the Heart of the World", Daily Science Fiction, 2010
• "The Language of the Whirlwind", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2010
• "Spider’s Moon", Futurismic, 2009
• "Jews in Antarctica", Fantasy Magazine, 2009
• "The Dying World", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2009
• "The Shangri-La Affair", Strange Horizons, 2009. [Part One] [Part Two]
• "Blakenjel", Apex Magazine, 2008
• "The Mystery of the Missing Puskat", Chizine, 2008
• "Uganda", Flurb, 2008
• "Elsbeth Rose", Fantasy Magazine, 2007
• "High Windows", Strange Horizons, 2006
• "304, Adolf Hitler Strasse", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2006
• "The Dope Fiend", Sci Fiction, 2005

External links

• Lavie Tidhar's home page
• Interview with Lavie Tidhar at 42SciFi-Fantasy
• Biography of Lavie Tidhar
• Interview regarding Lavie Tidhar's upcoming novel The Bookman
• Lavie Tidhar at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database