Lavie Tidhar Books In Order
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Publication Order of The Bookman Histories Books
The Bookman | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Camera Obscura | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Game | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Central Station Books
Publication Order of Gorel of Goliris Books
Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Gods Kiss | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Jews Versus Books
Jews Vs Aliens | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jews Vs Zombies | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jews vs Omnibus | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Judge Dee Books
Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Vampires | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Tel Aviv Dossier | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Osama | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Violent Century | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Man Lies Dreaming | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Candy | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unholy Land | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Atlantis | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Candy Mafia | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Blind | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lunacy Commission | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Escapement | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Circumference of the World | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
An Occupation of Angels | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jesus and the Eightfold Path | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cloud Permutations | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Martian Sands | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dragonkin | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selfies | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terminal | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Old Dispensation | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Yiwu | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vanishing Kind | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bag Man | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Xanadu | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Collections
Publication Order of The Apex Book of World SF Books
The Apex Book of World SF | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Apex Book of World SF 2 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Apex Book of World SF 3 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Best of World SF Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Blackest Death: Volume II | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Salon Fantastique | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aegri Somnia | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ruins Extraterrestrial | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Fantasy 2 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Interfictions 2 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future Optimistic Science Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Grave Conditions | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bewere the Night | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Apex Magazine - August 2011 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Daily Science Fiction Stories of August 2011 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Solaris Rising | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unfit for Eden: A Postscripts Anthology 26/27 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Million Writers Award | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Steampunk III | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fungi | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unidentified Funny Objects | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clarkesworld: Year Three | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best British Fantasy 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aliens: Recent Encounters | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New SF 26 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Memoryville Blues: A Postscripts Anthology 30/31 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
We See a Different Frontier | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Apex: Volume 4 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The End of the Road | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 25 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Plan B - Volume IV | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clarkesworld: Year Six | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2014 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Apex Book of World SF 5 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jews vs Aliens | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015 Edition | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Apex Book of World SF 4 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Funny Science Fiction | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #26 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mithila Review Issue 5+6 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Everyone: Worlds Without Walls | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
2084 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Robots vs. Fairies | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Of Swords: Part 2 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best of British Science Fiction 2017 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Magic | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Outcast Hours | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bag Man | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Invisible Blood | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best of British Science Fiction 2018 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of British Fantasy 2019 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best of British Science Fiction 2019 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of World SF, Volume 1 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of World SF: Volume 2 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unidentified Funny Objects 9 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best of British Science Fiction 2022 | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reports from the Deep End | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lavie Tidhar is a bestselling science fiction and fantasy author best known for combining all manner of genres. He has combined genres ranging from autobiographies, historical detective, science fiction, poetry and thriller fiction.
“The Financial Times” and “The Guardian” have compared his writing to that of Philip K. Dick, while Locus compared it to that of Kurt Vonnegut. He has won several awards over the years including the World Fantasy Award, the Neuko Prize, the Campbell Award, and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize among others.
Apart from the more than twenty one novels he has written, he is also the author of several collections, anthologies, novellas, and has also contributed to several series. Given his profile, he has appeared in several media including on “BBC Radio London,” and “Channel 4 News.”
He has also made live speaking appearances at the Singapore Writers Festival, the Ministry of Defense, English PEN, and Cambridge University. Tidhar has also worked as a “Washington Post” book columnist and his work has appeared in “The Vanuatu Daily Post,” the “Washington Post,” “SFX i09,” “Nature” and “The Independent.”
He currently makes his home in London, where he is a visiting writer in residence and professor at the American International University.
Growing up on a kibbutz in Israel, Lavie Tidhar read a lot of American science fiction translated into Hebrew.
He found something very liberating in science fiction as he felt it was very rebellious and counter cultural. He believes that it was this that held the greatest appeal as he was never one to follow societal conventions.
Even as a child reading science fiction, Lavie knew that he wanted to grow up and become an author. He always thought that writing was an amazing thing to do. He figured out quite early that he needed to have a lot of experience if he was going to have something to write about.
As Tidhar embarked on a traveling spree, he went on to live in many places across the world, many of which inform the characters and settings in his novels.. Tidhar has been very lucky to live in some remote places from where he has written his novels.
He penned “Osama” his breakout bestseller and winner of the World Fantasy award while he was resident in Laos in Cambodia. He started writing in 2002 but it would take about three years before he published the novella “An Occupation of Angels” in 2005
As for his biggest influences, Lavie Tidhar cites Philip K. Dick as the most influential.
Over the years, he absorbed the obscure and weird stuff from the likes of CL. Moore, Clifford Simak and Cordwainer Smith. He also likes the secret history writing of Tim Powers and the old science fiction novels from the likes of Delanmy and Zelazny.
While science fiction is changing a lot and he bemoans the decreasing freedom, he still does get a lot of new things that get him excited when he reads new material as editor of the “Apex Book of World Science Fiction” anthology.
As for why he combines everything from science fiction, espionage, fantasy, and pulp fiction style stories, Lavie says that he sees genres as tools that he can employ depending on the task at hand. He has a predilection for some genres such as noir but often has the need to challenge himself to try out new things.
In this regard, he has also worked with Paul McCaffrey the artist and Adler from “Titan Comics.” For Lavie, it is all about what is worth saying or what is important and interesting.
Lavie Tidhar’s novel “The Bookman,” is the ultimate steampunk novel that should be the standard for judging other steampunk works.
It opens to an orphan living in London during the 19th century, where sophisticated automatons interact and walk among human beings, the royal family has been replaced by reptilian lizards from space, whales sing and swim in the Thames, and the skies over London are peppered with silk blimp balloons.
The orphan works at a bookstore, lives a very simple life and is in love with Lucy, a beautiful woman who works with whales in the Thames. But then she is killed in a terror attack and he is forced to work with the perpetrator for a chance that they could get her back.
Tidhar does not write something so revolutionary but he is a master at worldbuilding, which makes for a beautiful story. He doesn’t just add classic steampunk elements to the historical 19th century but he also weaves in well loved and memorable characters in the telling of his story.
Using popular tropes from authors such as HG Wells, Jules Verne and Holmesian canon, this is a fast absorbing read with clean prose and fast pacing.
“Camera Obscura” by Lavie Tidhar picks up from where the debut left off. Just like in “The Bookman,” the author makes use of historical and fictional characters from the past to make for a delightful story. The story that stars Mylady De Winter begins in Asia before it transforms into a murder mystery in Paris.
There are two intertwined narratives in the novel with one following Kai, an Asian boy who possesses a strange alien figurine. The other thread is about the adventures of Mylady De Winter in a dark, fascinating and dangerous Paris.
During this time, France had strange rulers that took power during the Quiet Revolution. The country is ruled by a secretive council that works with several disreputable characters who do their dirty work.
Mylady is one of these characters who finds herselkf working on a murder mystery that is semingly more sinister. In her work, she works with all manner of people from scheming courtiers, members of Chinese secret societies and elements of the Parisian underworld.
Lavie Tidhar’s novel “The Great Game” is a story of intrigue and psycraft set in the same world as the first two novels in the “Bookman Histories” series of novels. He borrows from the likes of Victor Frankenstein and Mycraft Homes as it follows the story of retired secret agent Smith.
Another very interesting character in this novel is the determined and clever agent Lucy. The paths of the two protagonists cross as they go on a journey that is one part crazy, one part James Bond style action and one part tension filled John le Carre.
The wonderful and weird world that Tidhar creates is a part of the appeal of this series which is showcased in this novel in spectacular style.
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