Lavie Tidhar
Encyclopedia
Lavie Tidhar is an Israel
i born writer. He lived in the United Kingdom
and South Africa
for long periods of time. He had also lived in Vanuatu
and Laos
.
. He began to travel extensively from the age of 15 and incorporates his experiences as a traveller into several of his works.
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.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i born writer. He lived in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
for long periods of time. He had also lived in Vanuatu
Vanuatu
Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...
and Laos
Laos
Laos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...
.
Early life
Tidhar grew up in the communal atmosphere of an Israeli KibbutzKibbutz
A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...
. 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 AgencyEuropean Space Agency
The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states...
and, in 2005, was a Writers of the Future
Writers of the Future
Writers of the Future is a science fiction and fantasy story contest that was originated by L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1980s. Hubbard...
finalist. He was nominated for an Israeli Geffen Award
Geffen Award
The Geffen Award is an annual literary award given by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy since 1999, and presented at the Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, ICon Festival...
in 2006 and again in 2010 and 2011. He was nominated for a WSFA Small Press Award
WSFA Small Press Award
The WSFA Small Press Award was inaugurated by the Washington Science Fiction Association in 2007. The award is open to works of imaginative literature published in English for the first time in the previous calendar year...
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
World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
in the Special Award - non Professional category, for his work on the World SF Blog.
The Bookman Histories
- The Bookman. Angry Robot Books, 2010.
- Camera Obscura. Angry Robot Books, 2011.
- The Great Game. Angry Robot Books, forthcoming 2012.
Others
- Osama. PS Publishing, 2011.
- Martian Sands. Apex Books, forthcoming 2013.
- The Tel Aviv Dossier. Canada: ChiZine Publications, 2009. With Nir YanivNir YanivNir Yaniv is an Israeli musician, author and editor. In 2000 he founded the webzine of the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy, and was its chief editor for seven years. In 2007 he became chief editor of Chalomot Be'aspamia, Israel's only professional printed SF&F magazine.- Books :*...
.
Novellas
- An Occupation of Angels. United Kingdom: Pendragon pressPendragon pressThere are three unrelated publishers with the name Pendragon Press. One is a British small press based in Maesteg in Wales and specialising in science fiction, fantasy, horror and weird fiction. It is run by Christopher Teague. In 2005 the press was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for best...
2005. United States: Apex Publications 2010. - Cloud Permutations. United Kingdom: PS PublishingPS PublishingPS Publishing is a Hornsea based publisher founded in 1999 by Peter Crowther. They specialise in novella length fiction from the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres. It has quickly become established as one of Britain's premier small presses...
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 pulpPulp magazinePulp magazines , also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long...
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 SocietyBritish Fantasy SocietyThe British Fantasy Society began in 1971 as the British Weird Fantasy Society, an offshoot of the British Science Fiction Association. The society is dedicated to promoting the best in the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres....
Publications, 2008
Selected Anthologies
- "The Night Train", Strange HorizonsStrange HorizonsStrange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry in every issue....
, 2010. Reprinted in both Gardner DozoisGardner DozoisGardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...
's The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection and in Jonathan StrahanJonathan StrahanJonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....
's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5. - "The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String", Fantasy MagazineFantasy MagazineFantasy Magazine is a U.S.-based online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was launched as a print edition at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. It continued in this format for six more issues, but in mid-October 2007, it moved online, with daily content, and spun off...
2010. Reprinted in Gardner DozoisGardner DozoisGardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004...
's The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection - "The Integrity of the Chain", Fantasy MagazineFantasy MagazineFantasy Magazine is a U.S.-based online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was launched as a print edition at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. It continued in this format for six more issues, but in mid-October 2007, it moved online, with daily content, and spun off...
, 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 CrowtherPeter CrowtherPeter Crowther is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. He is the founder of PS Publishing. He edits a series of themed anthologies of science fiction short stories published by DAW books...
and Nick GeversNick GeversNick Gevers is a South African science fiction editor and critic, whose work has appeared in The Washington Post Book World, Interzone, Scifi.com, SF Site, The New York Review of Science Fiction and Nova Express...
, PS Publishing, 2009 - “Shoes” – Interfictions II, edited by Delia ShermanDelia ShermanCordelia Caroline Sherman , known professionally as Delia Sherman, is a fantasy writer and editor. Her novel The Porcelain Dove won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award...
and Christopher BarzakChristopher BarzakChristopher Barzak is an American author. He has published many short stories, beginning with "A Mad Tea Party" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet in 1999. In 2007 he published his debut novel, One for Sorrow, which has won the 2008 Crawford Award, and was a nominee for the 2008 Great Lakes Book...
, Small Beer Press 2009 - “Set Down This” – Phantom, edited by Sean WallaceSean WallaceSean A. Wallace is an American science fiction and fantasy editor and publisher.-Career:Wallace began publishing fiction in 1997, when he launched Cosmos Books, with Philip Harbottle. Their début title, Fantasy Annual, was an anthology of British authors including E.C. Tubb, John Russell Fearn,...
and Paul Tremblay, Prime Books 2009 - “One Day, Soon” - Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen DatlowEllen DatlowEllen Datlow is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist.-Biography:Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies...
, Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
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 TerrorismGlorifying TerrorismGlorifying Terrorism is a 2007 science fiction anthology edited by Farah Mendlesohn, which was compiled in direct response to the Terrorism Act 2006...
, edited by Farah MendlesohnFarah MendlesohnFarah Mendlesohn is a Hugo Award-winning British academic and writer on science fiction. In 2005 she won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book for The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, which she edited with Edward James....
, 2007
Selected Stories in Online Magazines
- "Aphrodisia", Strange Horizons, 2010
- "Butterfly and the Blight at the Heart of the World", Daily Science FictionDaily Science FictionDaily Science Fiction is an email and online magazine devoted to publishing science fiction stories that was founded in 2010. Hence the title, it is a daily publication, publishing each weekday, edited by Jonathan Laden and Michele Barasso. Daily Science Fiction is a professional paying market...
, 2010 - "The Language of the Whirlwind", Clarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld MagazineClarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
, 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", FlurbFlurbFlurb is a science fiction webzine, edited by noted science fiction author Rudy Rucker. In addition to short stories, Flurb features paintings and photography by Rucker. It is released biannually...
, 2008 - "Elsbeth Rose", Fantasy Magazine, 2007
- "High Windows", Strange Horizons, 2006
- "304, Adolf Hitler Strasse", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2006
- "The Dope Fiend", Sci Fiction, 2005