Lavie Tidhar
1) Unholy land
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"Lior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoing source of disappointment to his father. Tirosh has returned to his homeland in East Africa. But Palestina--a Jewish state founded in the early 20th century--has grown dangerous. The government is building a vast border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in Ararat City is growing. And Tirosh's childhood friend, trying to deliver a warning,...
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"They never meant to be heroes. For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart. But there must always be an account ... and the past has a habit of catching up to the present. Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face...
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Three lost people seek redemption as Tel Aviv is torn asunder by violence and supernatural chaos in this documentary-style Lovecraftian thriller.
Through a city torn apart by violence they cannot comprehend, three disparate individuals-a documentary film-maker, a yeshiva student, and a psychotic fireman-struggle to survive and to understand the ever-shifting dangers around them. But in their search for meaning, they must risk being lost themselves....
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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' 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...
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1941: an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbour, a man from the future materialises in President Roosevelt's office. His offer of military aid may cut the War and its pending atrocities short, and alter the course of the future... The future: welcome to Mars, where the lives of three ordinary people become entwined in one dingy smokesbar the moment an assassin opens fire. The target: the mysterious Bill Glimmung. But is Glimmung even real? The truth...
6) Neom
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Today, Neom is a utopian dream-a megacity of the future yet to be built in the Saudi desert. In this deeply imaginative novel from the award-winning universe of Central Station, far-future Neom is already old. Sentient machines roam the desert searching for purpose, works of art can be more deadly than weapons, and the spark of a long-overdue revolution is in the wind. Only the rekindling of an impossible love affair may slow the inevitable sands...
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"Wolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London's gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been--and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining another world. And when Wolf and Shomer's stories converge, we find ourselves drawn into a novel both shocking and profoundly haunting."--
8) Adler: Adler
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For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman – now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! 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!
Written by World Fantasy Award-winner Lavie Tidhar, with art by Paul McCaffrey (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DC's Men of War).
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Terminal by Lavie Tidhar is an emotionally wrenching science fiction story about people, who, either having nothing to lose or having a deep desire to go into space, travel to Mars via cheap, one-person, one-way vehicles dubbed jalopies. During the trip, those in the swarm communicate with each other, their words relayed to those left behind.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....
11) The Big Blind
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The daughter of a legendary card player with skills of her own, Claire doesn't want to go into the family business. She's 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 loves—and 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...
12) HebrewPunk
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THE CLASSIC COLLECTION OF JEWISH FANTASY!
"Marks a milestone in the literature of the fantastic." – Paul Di Filippo, author of The Steampunk Trilogy
In 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...
13) In Xanadu
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Lavie Tidhar's space opera sci-fi tale "In Xanadu" is a Tor.com Original.
Security through physicality.
Security through redundancy.
Security through obscurity.
How do immortal artificial intelligences defend themselves? With an air gap. With a security force that has no connection to anything that can harm them. With a young woman, trained to fight and to die who, along with her cohort, must keep them safe. But in Xanadu things don't always go...
14) Yiwu
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Can dreams come true? They can if you win the lottery, which promises to provide what your heart desires. For a humble shopkeeper in Yiwu, it's a living, selling lottery tickets. Until a winning ticket opens up mysteries he'd never imagined.
Lavie Tidha's Yiwu is a Tor.com Original short story.
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Lavie Tidhar's groundbreaking, award winning novel, A Man Lies Dreaming, introduced Adolf Hitler as a down-at-heels private detective, forced to eke out a miserable living in 1930s London. Forgotten by history, the man now calling himself Wolf is the lowest of the low, suffering fresh humiliations at every turn.
Now Wolf is back, in five darkly comic new stories that see him take on blackmail, murder, and theft, not to mention his old comrades.
16) Seven Vampires
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Paris is burning and Judge Dee and Jonathan are on the run. To guarantee their safety, they join a band of seven vampires escaping to England. The only problem? Someone in their midst is killing off members of their group one by one. It's of no matter to the Judge, provided they don't breach the Unalienable Obligations, but inevitably he's drawn into events.
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A British secret agent is caught in a plot to assassinate archangels who settled Earth after WWII in this classic thriller from the World Fantasy Award winning author!
"Sharp, brutal, cool--yet also stunningly imaginative and perfectly realised." -Michael Marshall, bestselling author of The Straw Men trilogy
In 1945, the Archangels materialised over the battlefields of Europe, ushering in a new Cold War. Fifty years later, they are being killed...
18) Four Novellas: The Big Blind, Cloud Permutations, The Vanishing Kind, Jesus and the Eightfold Path
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"Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells." – Library Journal
A 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...
19) Dragonkin
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There are kin and there are, kin. There are not many dragons, but there are many who think they are, or want to be, or claim to remember being.