Lavie Tidhar

Smileys People meets War of the WorldsAs a 19th century unlike our own comes to a close, Mycroft Holmes is found murdered outside his London club. It is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down the killer only to stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain.In The Great Game, World Fantasy Award winning author Lavie Tidhar concludes his epic trilogy of a Victorian era that could never have been: filled with literary references galore, not to mention airship battles, Frankenstein monsters, alien tripods and death-defying acts. It is a world where nothing is certain not even death.And furthermore venture deeper into the Lost Files of the Bookman Histories in this 2016 edition, as Professor Tidhar explores the Dynamics of an Asteroid!

When his beloved is killed in a terrorist atrocity committed by the sinister Bookman, young poet Orphan becomes enmeshed in a web of secrets and lies. His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of a London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the mysterious island that may hold the secret to the origin, not only of the shadowy Bookman, but of Orphan himself...

The mysterious and glamorous Milady 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 beyond - and cause her to question the very nature of reality itself. A breathtaking alternate Victorian history adventure, set in the same world as The Bookman.

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Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.The second annual instalment to the 'rare and wonderful' (The Times) The Best of World SF Volume 1, this collection of twenty-nine stories, including eight original and exclusive additions, represents the state of the art in international science fiction.Navigating around the globe, The Best of World SF Volume 2 features writers from Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Grenada, India, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, The Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Uganda and Zimbabwe.Each story has been selected by World SF expert and award-winning author Lavie Tidhar. Taking us into space - Mars at first, then the stars - and then back to a strange, transformed Earth via AI, gods, aliens and the undead, the collection traces the ever-changing meaning of the genre from some of the most exciting voices writing today.This is not a retrospective of what science fiction around the world used to look like. This is a snapshot of what some of it looks like now. And it's never been more exciting.

1946 beginnt die junge Ruth, sich in Palastina ein neues Leben aufzubauen, getrieben von jugendlichen Idealen in einem Land, das ihr feindlich gesinnt ist. Sie ist eine ungarische Zionistin, die, anders als die meisten Mitglieder ihrer Familie, den Nazis in Budapest entkommen konnte. Ruth wird das Herz des Kibbuz Trashim, und fur sie ist der Kibbuz heilig, heilige Erde, also Adama, seine Existenz ist ihre Lebensaufgabe. Wenn dafur knallharte Entscheidungen notig sind, dann wird sie sie treffen, inklusive Gewalt und Mord.Wir folgen Ruth und den Ihren durch die Jahre 1945 bis 2009. Und damit durch die Turbulenzen des Staates Israel die Auseinandersetzung mit den Briten, die Vertreibung der Araber, der Sechs-Tage-Krieg und der Jom-Kippur-Krieg machen Ruth womoglich noch zaher und harter. Neben dem Portrat einer beeindruckenden Frauenfigur und ihrer Familie, schreibt Lavie Tidhar auch die Gewaltgeschichte Israels fort.

Joe, detective privado, recibe el encargo de encontrar a Mike Longshott, autor de unas novelas pulp muy populares, protagonizadas por un personaje de ficción llamado Osama bin Laden. La tarea parece facil, pero se va complicando a medida que se acumulan los misterios: nadie parece conocer al autor, la editorial de las novelas no es mas que un apartado de correos y los interrogatorios le llevan a poner en duda que Longshott sea una persona real porque algunos hablan de fantasmas o refugiados de otra realidad paralela. Al mismo tiempo, Joe empieza a leer las novelas protagonizadas por Osama, que estan repletas de actos de violencia, que se parecen sospechosamente a atentados reales de nuestro mundo.

Medieval Europe. A world of darkness. Of Gothic castles, isolated monasteries, of monks and knights and things that go bump in the night. A world where vampires can roam at will... At least, as long as they obey the rules! For a vampire may not murder another vampire. Not unless they have a really good reason to, anyway.Enter Judge Dee. Ancient. Immortal. Ascetic. His cold intellect draws him wherever a mystery is present, and he will rest at nothing to solve the puzzle. Jonathan, the judges human assistant, on the other hand, mostly just wants cheese. With bread, if possible. And some pickles would be nice. After all, its not easy spending your life in the company of murderous vampires who only see you as a tasty snack...Their adventures take them from the warm Italian valleys to the heights of the French Alps as they come face to fang with fiendishly complicated puzzlesnot the least of which is love! But as they are drawn inexorably onwards to London, Jonathan wonders what awaits them when they finally arriveand what choices he may have to make once they get there.Praise for The Three Coffin Problem:"Sink your teeth into this! The Three Coffin Problem is a whimsical delight about everyones favorite vampire detective." Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic"Does fresh, funny, mystifying, clever and subliminally scary things with the mediaeval mystery genresimply by adding vampires to the mix. Hugely recommended." Kim Newman, author of Anno Dracula"Judge Dee is my favorite vampire, and its a joy to watch him work in these stories where he reminds us even a monster must have standardsor else. Along with his reluctant but faithful human servant Jonathan, Judge Dee unravels the unique crimes of the undead and delivers justice, or at least the next closest thing. Vampires are rarely ever this smart, and never this funny. Lavie Tidhar has injected new life into the genre, and I thank him for it." Christopher Farnsworth, author of The Presidents Vampire"Lavie Tidhar is killing it. Id say this book is what youd get if Arthur Conan Doyle got drunk on absinthe and made out with Edward Goreybut its Tidhar all the way down, at his funniest and wittiest. The books packed with vampires of all stripesthe backstabbers, the front stabbers, the shocked stab-eeswho are always up for a snack, and the body count is hilariously high. Tidhar had better keep the Judge Dee & Jonathan stories coming or I will hurt somebody." Daryl Gregory, author of Revelator

Ganador del World Fantasy Award. Una diáspora mundial ha dejado un cuarto de millón de personas a los pies de una estación espacial. Las culturas chocan en la vida real y en la virtual. La vida ape

"Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells." Library JournalThe daughter of a legendary card player with skills of her own, Claire doesnt want to go into the family business. Shes heard the call, and she desperately wants to become a nun. But when her convent comes under financial threat, Claire must leave what she loves to save what she lovesand enter an international poker tournament.Both a poker novella and a meditation on faith, The Big Blind is a taut, heartfelt and compelling new book from multiple award winner Lavie Tidhar."Lavie Tidhar is one of the great writers of my generation." Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic"An utterly original voice in contemporary fiction." Daniel Polansky, author of The Seventh Perfection"In a genre entirely of his own, and quite possibly a warped genius." Ian McDonald, author of Time Was

In the last decade of a 19th century unlike our own, Milady de Winter is called to the scene of an impossible crime. A gruesome murder on the Rue Morgue sets her against a ghostly serial killer, and on a voyage that leads from the catacombs of Paris to the wonders of the New World where new horrors lie in wait.In Camera Obscura, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar combines the Victorian penny dreadful with exploitation cinema to create a wide-screen thriller of redemption: complete with mad scientists, secret societies, Shaolin monks and figures liberally borrowed from the literature of the era as only he can."A rollicking adventure...a maelstrom of pop culture and recursive fantasy." Tor.com"Superb." Fantasy Book Critic

Winner British Fantasy Award for Best Novella, 2012A legend tells of the Mirror of Falang-Et: a magical object in the city of the frog tribes, which can tell all manner of truths. . .There is only one truth Gorel of Goliris gunslinger, addict, touched by the Black Kiss is interested in: finding a way back home, to the great empire from which he had been stolen as a child and from which he had been flung, by sorcery, far across the World.It started out simple: get to Falang-Et, find the mirror, find what truth it may hold. But nothing is simple for Gorel of Goliris. . . When Gorel forms an uneasy alliance and menage a trois with an Avian spy and a half-Merlangai thief, things only start to get complicated. Add a murdered merchant, the deadly Mothers of the House of Jade, the rivalry of gods and the machinations of a rising Dark Lord bent on conquest, and things start to get out of hand. Only one things for sure: by the time this is over, there will be blood.Not to mention sex and drugs. . . or guns and sorcery."A delightfully Weird pulp tale that could easily sit on a shelf alongside Leiber, Vance and Moorcock. . . an excellent planned and exuberantly executed fantasy" Pornokitch

THE CLASSIC COLLECTION OF JEWISH FANTASY!"Marks a milestone in the literature of the fantastic." Paul Di Filippo, author of The Steampunk TrilogyIn HebrewPunk, World Fantasy Award winning author Lavie Tidhar had reinvented pulp fantasy fiction in Jewish terms, creating a hidden world where fantasy, horror and history intertwine.Featuring the Rabbi, the Rat and the Tzaddik, their stories take us on a journey from an expedition to an alternate world in Kenya in 1904 to the drug-soaked streets of 1920s London and to Transylvania in the Second World War."Imagine Hard-Boiled Kabbalah... If you like your otherworld fun noir, have I got a book for you!" Kage Baker, author of In the Garden of Iden"Wondrous, adventurous, and thought-provoking." Ellen Datlow, co-editor of The Years Best Fantasy and Horror"Tidhar writes a sort of intensified supernatural action-surrealism that fair rattles along and is full of surprisesnot only plot twists and thrills but a level of conceptual surprise, a reinvigoration of some of the more tired conventions of the fantasy-horror genre... not to be missed." Adam Roberts, author of The Thing Itself

"Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells." Library JournalA nun enters a poker tournament as she wrestles with her faith in God; a boy travels across a mysterious, cloud-covered planet in search of a mythical space port; in Nazi-occupied London a screenwriter searches for an old flame with deadly consequences; three wise men from the East travel to Judea to give a newborn baby an unexpected power.Collected for the first time in one volume, this omnibus edition from World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar gathers four mind-bending novellas: The Big Blind, Cloud Permutations, The Vanishing Kind, and Jesus and the Eightfold Path."Lavie Tidhar is one of the great writers of my generation." Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic

LONGLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVELLA"Perhaps the best novella of the year" Locus"Pretty close to perfect" SFcrowsnestYEARS BEST SF SELECTION (GARDNER DOZOIS)YEARS BEST SF&F SELECTION (RICH HORTON)YEARS TOP SHORT SF NOVELS SELECTION (ALLEN KASTER)"London after the war wasnt a place you went to on holiday"Gunther Sloam comes to Nazi-occupied London in search of an old flame. But when she turns up dead, Gunther is accused of the crime...Moving through the dark streets of London, pursued by the enigmatic Everly of the British Gestapo, Gunther is in way over his head. London after the Nazi occupation is a place haunted by shadows, and everyone he meets is lying to him. As Gunther gets drawn into a deadly web of conspiracy, illicit drug dealing, prostitution and blackmail, the only question is: can he stay alive long enough to find answers?A new alternate history noir masterpiece from the multiple award winning author of A Man Lies Dreaming and Unholy Land!

"A complex, layered and hugely enjoyable story" Bestsf"Lovely work" LocusWhen a mysterious message arrives from vanished New Atlantis, a restless Mai undertakes the perilous journey to its drowned isles. But the journey is long and hard: through the Blasted Plains and the ancient cities of Tyr and Suf, through shipwreck and wilderness.For this is a world where ants develop inexplicable weapons, where a lonely robot lives surrounded by cats in the ruins of old Paris, and where floating coral islands host sleeping sentience. Mais journey takes her by land, sea and air to the islands of New Atlantis, and to the nightmare prison buried underneath old London.On her way she will find heartbreak and love and a new life, awakening.PRAISE FOR NEW ATLANTIS"Excellent... not a word is wasted" Sfcrowsnest"Amazing" 1000yearplan"A wonderful, imaginative story" SFRevuPRAISE FOR LAVIE TIDHARWinner The World Fantasy AwardWinner The John W. Campbell AwardWinner The British Fantasy AwardWinner The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered PrizeWinner The Neukom Literary Arts AwardWinner The Kitschies AwardWinner The BSFA Award"Tidhar is a genius at conjuring realities that are just two steps to the left of our own." NPR"Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells." Library Journal"In a genre entirely of his own, and quite possibly a warped genius." Ian McDonald, author of River of Gods"One of the foremost science fiction authors of our generation." Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Gods of Jade and Shadow"Already staked a claim as the genres most interesting, most bold, and most accomplished writer." Locus"One of science fictions great voices." Starburst

"Lavie Tidhar lays it out like a dystopian dog!" James EllroyA middle-aged hitwoman goes on the run from the Israeli mob; a boy on a South Pacific island searches for a missing cat and uncovers dark secrets; an ageing bagman has to recover a package across one violent night, no matter the cost; an informer must uncover the heist of a lifetime on the fringes of the Roman Empire, and Sherlock Holmes is faced with a confounding botanical mystery; while a pair of hapless actors are forced into a seedy mystery in Golden Age Hollywood.Moving from the genteel English countryside to the mean streets of L.A. and from the islands of Vanuatu to the dark alleyways of Tel Aviv, this wide-ranging collection gathers together the best crime and noir stories of master storyteller Lavie Tidhar, including the CWA Dagger Award nominated "Bag Man" and much more besides.Welcome to a world of gangsters and hired killers, of lost romantics and deadly women, of good times and lowlifes. Where its always the wrong part of town, and where whatever you do, there are no good choices...Because when it comes, no one hears the last shot."Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells." Library Journal"Some write in ink, others in song, Tidhar writes in fire." Junot Diaz

His name was Gorel of Goliris and he was a gunslinger and an addict, touched by the Black Kiss. Gorel wanted nothing more than to return to his home, the greatest empire the World had ever known, from which he was banished by sorcery as a child. But wherever he went, trouble doggedly followed, and death preceded his stepsIn Black Gods Kiss Lavie Tidhar returns to the vivid world of his 2012 British Fantasy Award winning novella, "Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God." It collects 5 long adventures set before and after the events of "Pot-Bellied God," and includes a brand-new novella, "Kur-a-Len."In these pages you will find thrilling tales of guns and sorcery, filled with ghosts, mercenaries, necromancers and gods not to mention sex, and death!REVIEWS:"One of the most flamboyantly entertaining collections of the year what [the stories] are is almost the pure essence of pulp violent, action-packed, paced like a runaway freight train, politically incorrect and socially unredeemable." Locus Magazine"Muscular fantasy varied, adult, occasionally surreal and always interesting. Black Gods Kiss is a collection for readers seeking a different flavour to their fantasy." British Fantasy Society"Classic heroic fantasy My overwhelming feeling upon reading it is gratitude that such an exceptional writer chooses to write the kind of books I want to read." Theakers Quarterly