Bøker av Lavie Tidhar

SIX LIVESSix lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold.THE GUANO MERCHANTIn 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America, to investigate an irregularity in the accounts of the House of Feebes & Co.MOMENTO MORIIn 1912, post-mortem photographer and reluctant blackmailer Annie Connolly plots her escape from Ireland to America on board the Titanic. THE COUNTRY HOUSE MURDERIn 1933, idealistic Edgar Waverley faces a choice of the heart when he becomes embroiled in a country house murder. THE SPYIn 1964, hapless KGB agent Vasily Sokolov makes his career conjuring valuable information from worthless detritus.ZABBALEENin 1987, actor Mariam Khouri looks back at 'Black Dirt', the movie that lifted her from the streets of Cairo. NEW YORKIn 2012, Isabelle Feebes attempts to break with her poisonous heritage once and for al. Can she forge a new life for herself in the New World? Can you ever truly escape your past?

The Children's Book of the Future is a narrative non-fiction book that will offer an inclusive and hopeful vision of the future, with a diverse, multicultural approach that will appeal to children of all backgrounds and further appeal to the foreign market audience.The book will consist of approximately eighteen chapters that each take inspiration from current scientific research. They'll present engaging, optimistic futures that could result from the real-world science, with insets delving into how that science works. The book will be highly illustrated throughout to make complex ideas more accessible, as well as to better depict the wondrous futures that could be ahead.Some of the diverse visions explored include: underwater cities; the solar system and space travel; green technologies and sustainability; robots and AI; the future of cities; and much more! In short, the book sets out to reclaim the future for current and future generations of children.

In this, the eighth year of the Best of British Science Fiction anthology series, editor Donna Scott has outdone herself, scouring magazines, anthologies, webzines and obscure genre corners to discover the very best science fiction stories by British and British-based authors published during 2022. Two dozen stories, varying greatly in subject matter and style.Donna Scott is a director and former chair of the BSFA, as well as being a distinguished poet, writer, and stand-up comedian. Donna is also a free-lance editor who has worked behind the scenes for a number of major publishers over the course of several years.Contents:Introduction by Donna ScottA Moment of Zugzwang - Neil WilliamsonA Quickening Tide - Andrew Wilson and A J McIntoshIn the Weave - David WhitmarshThe Marshalls of Mars - Tim MajorThe Amelioration of Existence in Spite of Truth and Reconciliation - EM FauldsLast Bite at the Klondike - Liam HoganFor I Shall Consider My Cat J/FRY - Alice DrydenThe FenZone - Ian WhatesTranslation - Philip IrvingLong Live the Strawberries of Finsbury Park - Stephen OramEternal Soldier - L.N. HunterI Know What You Are - Matt ThompsonGortcullinane Man - Val NolanThe Spreads of Space and Endless Devastation - Stewart BakerCall of the Void - J.K. FultonRetirement Options for (Too) Successful Space Entrepreneurs - Brent BaldwinThe Memory Spider - Fiona MooreSunrunner - Robert BagnallAssets - Keith Brooke and Eric BrownThe Flamingo Maximizer - Dafydd McKimmWheel of Fortune - Ida KeoghThose We Leave Behind - Vaughan StangerJunk Hounds - Lavie TidharAbout the Authors

Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2023 Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax. In a story that is cosmic, inventive, and sly, multi-award-winning author Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe. "Ingeniously constructed and stylistically protean, this seven-course banquet of a novel glistens with the Golden Age of science fiction, even as it nourishes our neurons with a marvelous thought experiment."--James Morrow, award-winning author of Shambling Towards Hiroshima Delia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isn't supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous. Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to find the novel. After Delia's husband Levi goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer. The infamous novel Lode Stars was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley: legendary pulp science-fiction writer and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes. In Hartley's novel, a doppelganger of Delia searches for her missing father in a strange star system. But is any of Lode Stars real? Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, creating a religion he did not believe in? Or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe?

CAN'T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the start. This whirlwind adventure will take Milady to the highest and lowest parts of that great city - and cause her to question the very nature of reality itself.File Under:Steampunk[ Alternate History | Reptilian Royalty | Murder Most Foul | The World's Fair ]

"The city known as Neom is many things to many beings, human or otherwise. It is a tech wonderland for the rich and beautiful; an urban sprawl along the Red Sea; and a port of call between Earth and the stars. In the desert, young orphan Elias has joined a caravan, hoping to earn his passage off-world. But the desert is full of mechanical artefacts, some unexplained and some unexploded. Recently, a wry, unnamed robot has unearthed one of the region's biggest mysteries: the vestiges of a golden man. In Neom, childhood affection is rekindling between loyal shurta-officer Nasir and hardworking flower-seller Mariam. But Nasu, a deadly terrorists, has come to the city with missing memories and unfinished business. Just one robot can change a city's destiny with a single rose--especially when that robot is in search of lost love. Lavie Tidhar's ( Unholy Land, The Escapement) newest lushly immersive novel, Neom, which includes a guide to the Central Station-verse, is at turns gritty, comedic, transportive, and fascinatingly plausible." --

'A twisted masterpiece' Guardian 1939. In a grotty corner of London, in a flat above a shop, a private eye known as Wolf keeps his office. The city is in the throes of a very British Fascism, and Wolf is far from the life he left behind in Germany, before the Fall. Business hasn't been good, so when a glamorous Jewish heiress comes through his door, he has no choice but to take on her case.It's a decision Wolf will soon regret.For in another time and place, a man lies dreaming. Once a Yiddish pulp writer, but now imprisoned in a hell of humanity's making, Shomer creates lurid tales of revenge in his sleep...Prescient, darkly funny and wholly original, the award-winning A Man Lies Dreaming is a modern fable for our time.

Winner of the World Fantasy Award Tenth Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction and three extra stories.It's a rainy day when the woman approaches Joe. He is a private detective and she is looking for someone, as these things often go. Her quarry is the obscure author of a series of pulp novels featuring one Osama bin Laden: Vigilante.Joe's quest will take him across the world in search of the writer. And every step of the way - from the backwaters of Laos to Paris and London - he is plagued, by assailants he cannot name, by questions he cannot hope to answer and by ghostly entities he cannot seem to shake.Joe knows how the story should end, but even he is not ready for the truths he will find in New York and atop a quiet hill above Kabul, nor for the choice he will have to make there...

The second book in Lavie Tidhar's Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet - a subversive remixing of the myths and legends that shaped our nation. Will Scarlet, back from the crusades, hopped up on khat and cider and stabbed thrice in the belly but somehow still alive, is heading home to Nottingham. And things are not right in Nottingham.

Twenty-six stories, selected by editor Donna Scott from disparate places, that represent some of the best SF published anywhere during 2020: stories of heroism, stories of loss, stories of wonder. In this volume you will encounter deftly crafted tales that explore such things as the progress of AI consciousness, considerations in health and social care, and the meaning of those things that are unique in their significance to mankind: the true meaning of love, and the linear nature, or not, of time. Best of British Science Fiction 2020 is once again edited by Donna Scott, a recent chair of the BSFA and a distinguished poet, writer, and stand-up comedian. Donna is also a free-lance editor who has worked behind the scenes for a number of major publishers over the course of several years.Contents:Introduction - Donna Scott War Crimes - M. R. CareyBlue and Blue and Blue and Pink - Lavie TidharAll I Asked For - Anne CharnockThe Savages - David GullenInfinite Tea in the Demara Café - Ida KeoghLazarus, Unbound - Liam HoganThe Cyclops - Teika Marija SmitsBrave New World by Oscar Wilde - Ian WatsonChimy and Chris - Stephen OramMudlarking - Neil WilliamsonInfectious - Liz WilliamsCofiwch Aberystwyth- Val Nolan Panspermia High - Eric Brown Exhibit E - L. P. Melling The Lori - Fiona MooreWilson Dreams of Peacocks - Melanie SmithVariations on Heisenberg's Third Concerto - Eleanor R WoodThe World is on Fire and You're Out of Milk - Rhiannon GristThe Turbine at the End of the World - James RowlandWhat Happened to 70 - C. R. BerryRings Around Saturn - Rosie OliverThe Good Shepherd - Stewart C HotsonPineapples Are Not the Only Bromeliad - RB KellyLike Clocks Work - Andi BuchananWatershed - John GilbeyHere Today - Geoff NelderAbout the Authors

"Into the reality called the Escapement rides the Stranger, a lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son from a parallel world. But it is too easy to get lost on a shifting landscape full of dangerous versions of his son's most beloved things: cowboys gone lawless, giants made of stone, downtrodden clowns, ancient battles, symbol storms, and shadowy forces at play. But the flower the Stranger seeks still lies beyond the Mountains of Darkness. Time is running out, as he journeys deeper and deeper into the secret heart of an unforeseen world"--Provided by publisher.

Everyone thinks they know the story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. But this is a historical novel with a difference.

An NPR Best Book of 2016An Amazon Featured Best Science Fiction & Fantasy BookA Guardian Best SF & Fantasy Book of 2016Longlist, British Science Fiction Award 2016, Best Novel2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee"e;It's all of science fiction distilled into a single book."e;-Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun Machine A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper.When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik—a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation—a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness—are just the beginning of irrevocable change.At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive...and even evolve.

In a 19th century unlike our own, the shadowy assassin known as the Bookman moves unseen. His weapons are books; his enemies are many. And when Orphan, a young man with a mysterious past, loses his love to the sinister machinations of the Bookman, Orphan would stop at nothing to bring her back from the dead.InThe Bookman, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar writes a love letter to books, and to the serial literature of the Victorian era: full of hair-breadth escapes and derring-dos, pirates and automatons, assassins and poets, a world in which real life authors mingle freely with their fictional creations and where nothing is quite as it seems.New 2016 edition includes the novelette ';Murder in the Cathedral'. Discover, truthfully, what actually happened when Orphan visited Paris.File Under:Steampunk[Alternate Victorian London | Reptilian royalty | Diabolical anarchists | Extraordinary adventure!]

It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!

Twenty-six stories, selected by editor Donna Scott from disparate places, that represent some of the best SF published anywhere in 2018; dreamlike glimpses of pristine worlds that will destroy us before we destroy them; stories of work-based friendships, mistrust and isolation; of alienation and othering; stories of slavery given an acceptable face through beautiful voice and the ever-present need to keep fighting injustice; stories of bodily choice being made a crime; stories of rebellions we thought we'd already had but need to have again. We have another end to childhood. And we have the murder of story itself, involving an AI...Full contents:Introduction by Donna ScottProvidence - Alastair ReynoldsTalking to Ghosts at the Edge of the World - Lavie TidharThe Miracle Lambs of Minane - Finbarr O'ReillyTerritory Blank - Aliya WhiteleyThrow Caution - Tim MajorGolgotha - Dave HutchinsonSalvation - Dave BradleyWaterbirds - G.V. AndersonBuddy System - Mike MorganDo No Harm - Anna IbbotsonA Change of Heart - Hannah TougherBirnam Platoon - Natalia TheodoridouGood - Sunyi DeanHard Times in Nuovo Genova - Chris BarnhamThe Escape Hatch - Matthew de AbaituaP.Q. - James WarnerThe Purpose of the Dodo is to be Extinct - Malcolm DevlinCat and Mouse - David TallermanBefore They Left - Colin GreenlandHarry's Shiver - Esme CarpenterThe Whisperer - J.K. FultonDeath of the Grapevine - Teika Marija SmitsRainsticks - Matt ThompsonThe Veilonaut's Dream - Henry SzabranskiDoomed Youth - Fiona MooreF Sharp 4 - Tim Pieraccini

Tel Aviv is the only home Charlie, the child of a Filipino guest worker, has known but although he tries hard to fit in, he sometimes feels like an outsider.

Editor Donna Scott has selected the very best short fiction by British authors published during 2017. Twenty-two stories, from established names and rising stars of genre fiction.Introduction - Donna ScottBlinders - Tyler KeevilIn the Night of the Comet - Adam RobertsThe Walls of Tithonium Chasma - Tim Major3.8 Missions - Katie GrayOver You - Jaine FennThe Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make for Yourself - Matt DoveyUniquo - Aliya WhiteleyLooking for Laika - Laura MauroA Good Citizen - Anne CharnockMercury Teardrops - Jeff NoonThe Nightingales in Plàtres - Natalia TheodoridouThe Road to the Sea - Lavie TidharWhen I Close My Eyes - Chris BarnhamTargets - Eric BrownLondon Calling - Philip A. SuggarsThe Last Word - Ken MacLeodAfter the Atrocity - Ian CreaseyVoicemail - Karen McCreedyGreen Boughs Will Cover Thee - Sarah ByrneAirless - N.J. RamsdenProduct Recall - Robert BagnallThe Endling Market - E. J. SwiftAbout the Authors.