From October 2019 to August 2022,[4] Tidhar, along with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, was the science fiction and fantasy columnist for The Washington Post.[5] Since 2023 he has been writing short animated films[6] for director Nir Yaniv under their shared label, Positronish.[7]
Biography
Tidhar was born and raised on Dalia, a prosperous kibbutz in Israel's rural north. He began to travel extensively from the age of 15 and incorporates his experiences as a traveler into several of his works.[8]
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The Big Blind. United Kingdom: PS Publishing 2020.
Collections
HebrewPunk. United States: Apex Publications. 2007. A collection of four linked short stories re-imagining pulp fantasy in Jewish terms.
Black Gods Kiss. United Kingdom: PS Publishing. 2015. A collection of five linked short stories (including one novella) related to Tidhar's previous British Fantasy Award-winning novella Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God (2011).
Terminale Terra. Italy: Future Fiction, 2018. Collection of several SF short stories, in Italian translation.
Venus in Bloom. Japan: Hal-Con, 2019. Guest of honour collection published to coincide with Hal-Con 2019, collecting several SF short stories, in dual English and Japanese. Illustrated by Masato Hisa.
Comics
"The Butcher & The Fly-Keeper: A Christmas Love Story", in Murky Depths #6, 2008, 6pp strip with artist Thomas Tuke.
"Finger", in Murky Depths #10, 2009, 3pp strip with artist Neil Roberts.
"Mr. Spellman's Last Dance", in Grave Conditions, ed. Scott Nicholson, 2010, 6pp strip with artist Andre Siregar.
"Mr. Spellman's Holiday", in Murky Depths #13, 2010, 9pp strip with artist Andre Siregar.
Adolf Hitler's "I Dream of Ants!". United Kingdom: House of Murky Depths, 2012. With artist Neil Struthers.
A Man Named Wolf. Hodder & Stoughton 2014. Special promotional comic. With artist Neil Struthers.
"New Swabia" in Outside. Berlin: Ash Pure and Topics Press, 2017. 10pp strip with artist Sarah Anne Langton.
Adler #1. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
Adler #2. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
Adler #3. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
Adler #4. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
Adler #5. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
Picture books
Going to the Moon. United Kingdom: House of Murky Depths, 2012. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
As editor
The Apex Book of World SF Series
A series of anthologies published since 2009, collecting short stories of international speculative fiction. Tidhar edited the first three volumes, and remained as overall Series Editor from the fourth volume.[47]
The Apex Book of World SF. United States: Apex Publications. 2009.
The Apex Book of World SF 2. United States: Apex Publications. 2012.
The Apex Book of World SF 3. United States: Apex Publications. 2014.
As Series Editor
The Apex Book of World SF 4. United States: Apex Publications, 2015. Edited by Mahvesh Murad.
The Apex Book of World SF 5. United States: Apex Publications, 2018. Edited by Cristina Jurado.
The Best of World SF
In 2021, Tidhar began a new series with The Best of World SF, published in hardcover by Head of Zeus.[48]
The Best of World SF: Volume 1. United Kingdom: Head of Zeus, 2021.
The Best of World SF: Volume 2. United Kingdom: Head of Zeus, 2022.
The Best of World SF: Volume 3. United Kingdom: Head of Zeus, 2023.
Jews vs... Series
Jews vs Zombies. With Rebecca Levene. United Kingdom: Jurassic London, 2015.[49]
Jews vs Aliens. With Rebecca Levene. United Kingdom: Jurassic London, 2015.
"The Night Train" – Strange Horizons, 2010. Reprinted in both Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection and in Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5.
"The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String" – Fantasy Magazine 2010. Reprinted in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection
"The Integrity of the Chain" – Fantasy Magazine, 2009. Reprinted in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Seventh Annual Collection
Tidhar, Lavie (September 2013). "The Oracle". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 133 (9): 37–47.
The "Central Station" story cycle
Vladimir Chong chooses to die
2014
Tidhar, Lavie (September 2014). "Vladimir Chong chooses to die". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 134 (9): 40–47.
The "Central Station" story cycle
Whaliens
2014
Tidhar, Lavie (April 2014). "Whaliens". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 134 (4): 54–63.
Non-fiction
Art and War. Co-written with Shimon Adaf. United Kingdom: Repeater Books, 2016.
Filmography
Short Animated Film
Year
Title
Director
Writer
Producer
2023
Welcome To Your A.I. Future
No
Yes
Yes
2023
Loontown
No
Yes
Yes
Short Form Animated Series
Year
Title
Director
Writer
Executive producer
Creator
2024
Mars Machines
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trivia
Tidhar is referenced in several works of fiction:
In Adam Roberts's Jack Glass (2012), "Tidharian" is referred to as a futuristic spoken language. "It was English Dia was speaking, after all: not Potpourri or Tidharian or Pidgin-Martian."[56]
In Christopher Farnsworth's Killfile, the Mossad agent friend of the protagonist is named Tidhar after the author (though it is briefly mentioned he has a different first name). "I am on guard, because Tidhar is no one you want to mess with, even by accident." ... "Thanks to Tidhar, I'm piggybacking on Mossad tech." .... "I should tell Tidhar, if I ever see him again..."[57]
In the Shimon Adaf short story "third_attribute", the protagonist visits Tidhar's childhood home as he contemplates writing a thesis on Tidhar's Hebrew poetry. "He wanders along the Kibbutz pathways, but doesn’t become any wiser. A battered copy of Remnants of God, Tidhar’s only poetry book in Jewish [Jewish? He knew Jewish once!] held under his arm."[58]
In Nick Wood's Azanian Bridges (2016), Tidhar's Osama is mentioned as a banned book in the alternate history South Africa of the novel.[59]
In Charlie Kaufman's Antkind (2020), protagonist B. Rosenberger Rosenberg is portrayed as a former fan of Tidhar (along with Isaac Asimov and Harlan Ellison) turned against him. ""Yes," she screams, "Tidhar! You loved Tidhar!"" ... "I try to call after her, but I cannot. I cannot be a man who countenances Tidhar."[60]
Pei-chen Liao (2020). "Worlding Alternate Histories of the Post-9/11 Era: The Transnational Trend, Normalization, and the Dynamics of Memory", in Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction, Palgrave Macmillan.
Morgan, Glyn (2020). "Reimagining Horror: The Plot Against America (2004), Farthing (2006), A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), and J (2014)", in Imagining the Unimaginable: Speculative Fiction and the Holocaust, Bloomsbury Academic Press.
McFarlane, Anna (2019). "Time and Affect After 9/11: Lavie Tidhar's Osama: A Novel". In Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction, ed. Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel, Liverpool University Press.
