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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 was a Sturgeon Award finalist.

Linked story collection HebrewPunk contains stories of Jewish pulp fantasy.

He co-wrote dark fantasy novel The Tel Aviv Dossier with Nir Yaniv. The Bookman Histories series, combining literary and historical characters with steampunk elements, includes The Bookman , Camera Obscura , and The Great Game .

Standalone novel Osama 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 , Cloud Permutations , British Fantasy Award winner Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God , and Jesus & the Eightfold Path .

Tidhar advocates bringing international SF to a wider audience, and has edited The Apex Book of World SF and The Apex Book of World SF 2 .

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 ; wrote Michael Marshall Smith: The Annotated Bibliography ; wrote weird picture book Going to The Moon ; and scripted one-shot comic Adolf Hitler’s I Dream of Ants! .

Tidhar lives with his wife in London.

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Central Station

The Bookman

Osama

Unholy Land

Camera Obscura

Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law

By Force Alone

Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection

Dark Faith

Fungi

The Apex Book of World SF (Apex Book of World SF #1)

Drowned Worlds

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection

Funny Science Fiction

Adler: Volume 1

People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy

Uncanny Magazine Issue 36: September/October 2020

Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology

The Candy Mafia