Bøger af 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?

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. THE BLACKMAILERIn 1912, post-mortem photographer and reluctant blackmailer Annie Connolly plots her escape from Ireland to America on board the Titanic. THE IDEALISTIn 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. THE MOVIE STARIn 1987, actor Mariam Khouri looks back at 'Black Dirt', the movie that lifted her from the streets of Cairo. THE HEIRESSIn 2012, Isabelle Feebes attempts to break with her poisonous heritage once and for all. 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.

Klimaforandringerne er blandt de største udfordringer, menneskeheden står overfor. Alt tyder på at de accelererer, og hver ny fremskrivning tegner et mere dystert billede af klodens sande fremtidige tilstand. Naturligvis er det også en problemstilling, som science fiction-forfattere arbejder med, og i øvrigt har gjort gennem mere end hundrede år. Gennem det seneste halve århundrede er der i stigende grad tale om at science fiction-litteraturen diskuterer menneskets ansvar og mulighederne for at vende udviklingen.Mange fortællinger om klimakatastrofer og tiden derefter er dystre i udsynet, og er blevet kritiseret for negativitet. Men hvis en historie for alvor skal få læseren til at tænke over sagerne, nytter det ikke noget at lade problemerne løse sig af sig selv eller ved et eller andet mirakel. De bedste klimahistorier går ikke let hen over problemernes alvor.Til gengæld bliver der i stigende grad skrevet historier, der ganske vist tager klimaproblemerne alvorligt, men også forestiller sig måder at afbøde dem eller genetablere et menneskeligt samfund efter et eventuelt sammenbrud. Her viser science fiction en af sine styrker, nemlig teknologisk opfindsomhed, forbundet med ofte barsk realisme: Ingen siger at det bliver nemt, men der er stadig muligheder, stadigt håb. Strømningen er blevet kaldt hopepunk, og denne antologi rummer både historier af denne slags og af de mere dystre.Indhold:Kim Stanley Robinson: Det druknede VenedigMitch Sullivan: Kontoret for klimafaktaSam J. Miller: KælvetJean-Louis Trudel: At miste det vi ikke kan leve udenDaniel Thron: Barnebarns-paradoksetLavie Tidhar: DruknetSean Williams: De nye venusboereCatharynne M. Valente: Fremtiden er blåNicole Feldringer: AfvigereCamille Alexa: DrowntownCarrie Vaughn: AstrofiliPat Murphy & Paul Doherty: FjærtfangerenKathryn Blume: Verdens ottende vidunderKen Liu: Meddelelser fra vuggen: Eneboeren – 48 timer i Massachusetts-havetAfmagt og håb: Efterord ved Niels DalgaardOm forfatterne

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

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 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror"Tidhar writes a sort of intensified supernatural action-surrealism that fair rattles along and is full of surprises-not 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

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.

THE CULT NOVEL RETURNS!"e;The best book I read last year is A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar... It is so cleverly constructed and such a spectacular conclusion unfolds that you are going to take it all very seriously."e; - Sting"e;Ambitious as hell"e; -Ian Rankin"e;An excellent novel"e; -Philip KerrSince its original 2014 publication, A Man Lies Dreaming has been translated into multiple languages and gained a cult following for its dark humor, prescient politics and powerful exploration of the impossibility of fantasy.1939: Adolf Hitler, fallen from power, seeks refuge in a London engulfed in the throes of a very British Fascism. Now eking a miserable living as a down-at-heels private eye and calling himself Wolf, he has no choice but to take on the case of a glamorous Jewish heiress whose sister went missing.It's a decision Wolf will very shortly regret.For in another time and place a man lies dreaming: Shomer, once a Yiddish pulp writer, who dreams lurid tales of revenge in the hell that is Auschwitz.Prescient, darkly funny and wholly original, the award-winning A Man Lies Dreaming is a modern fable for our time that comes "e;crashing through the door of literature like Sam Spade with a .38 in his hand"e; (Guardian).PRAISE 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"e;Tidhar is a genius at conjuring realities that are just two steps to the left of our own."e; -NPR "e;Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells."e; -Library Journal "e;In a genre entirely of his own, and quite possibly a warped genius."e; -Ian McDonald, author of River of Gods "e;Already staked a claim as the genre's most interesting, most bold, and most accomplished writer."e; -Locus "e;Tidhar is a master at taking concepts that really shouldn't work and crafting them into something uniquely brilliant."e; -GeekDad"e;He is perhaps the UK's most literary speculative fiction writer."e; -Strange Horizons"e;Like early Kurt Vonnegut... both writers seem to channel the same prankster glee that covers deep despair."e; -Locus"e;Bears comparison with the best of Philip K Dick"e; -The Financial TimesPRAISE FOR A MAN LIES DREAMINGJERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE WINNER 2015BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NOMINEE 2015PREMIO ROMA NOMINEE 2016GEFFEN PRIZE NOMINEE 2019DUBLIN LITERATURE AWARD LONGLIST 2016"e;Complex, elusive and intriguing"e; -The Jerusalem Post"e;Nasty, clever, waspish and witty... a brilliant and potent thought experiment"e; -The Sunday Herald"e;Bold and unnerving"e; -NPR"e;Damn good"e; -Jewish Book Council"e;A wholly original Holocaust story: as outlandish as it is poignant."e; -Kirkus (starred review)"e;A vital, brilliant novel"e; -Barnes & Noble SFF Blog"e;Outstanding and moving"e; -Maxim Jakubowski, LoveReading.co.uk"e;Gripping... clever and thrilling work"e; -Buzz Magazine"e;In turns brutal, harrowing, heartbreaking and intriguing.... [an] unforgettable novel."e; -Gulf Weekly"e;poetic & terrible... quite incredible"e; -Tor.com"e;A brilliant novel."e; -Pop Versea a a

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.