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Lavie Tidhar

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Lavie Tidhar. New Atlantis. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2019).

July 10, 2019January 13, 2020 Mark Watson 1 Comment Lavie Tidhar

Another masterful piece of writing from Tidhar.

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Lavie Tidhar. The Road to the Sea. (Sunvault : stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, ed Wagner/Wieland, Upper Rubber Boot, 2017.)

October 25, 2018January 13, 2020 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

A shorter story from Tidhar, and classy as usual.

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Lavie Tidhar. The Old Dispensation. (Tor.com February 2017)

February 8, 2017 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

A big picture Space Opera, many many millenia hence, with the Jewish faith, and the Exilarch, commanding the new universe.

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Lavie Tidhar. Terminal. (Tor.com April 2016)

April 14, 2016 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

Well-written, subtle bit of writing.

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Lavie Tidhar. Murder in the Cathedral. (Asimovs June 2014)

June 23, 2014 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

Steam/lizard punk from Tidhar, who gives himself the opportunity to poke gentle fun at SF writers and SF fandom.

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Lavie Tidhar. Filaments. (Interzone #249, Nov-Dec 2013)

February 23, 2014 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

Another short installment in Tidhar’s ‘Central Station’ series, this time featuring robo-priest R. Brother Patch-It.

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Lavie Tidhar. The Memcordist. (Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirtieth Annual Collection)

August 5, 2013 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

Tidhar provides quality, neatly picking up the gap left by Charles Stross not writing much in the way of short SF these days. Here he follows, in an nonlinear fashion, the thoughts and actions of a man whose entire life is shared with the farfuture version of twitter/facebook etc.

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Lavie Tidhar. The Smell of Orange Groves. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction 29th Annual Collection)

November 2, 2012November 2, 2012 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

Excellent stuff. Have a read of the story in Clarkesworld, then get yourself copies of Interzone – either the sleek, new smaller format magazine, or an e-version, and read the subsequent stories.

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Lavie Tidhar. Strigoi. (Interzone #242, September/October 2012)

November 2, 2012November 2, 2012 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

In Tidhar’s ‘Central Station’ series, another story with depth and texture, leaving me waiting for the next in the series.

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Lavie Tidhar. The Night Train. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5)

July 27, 2012July 27, 2012 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

An outstanding story, which gets a big thumbs up from me.

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Lavie Tidhar. The Last Osama. (Interzone #237, Nov-Dec 2011)

November 25, 2011November 25, 2011 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

An altogether multi-facted and clever piece of fiction(s).

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Lavie Tidhar. The Lives and Deaths of Che Guevara. (Solaris Rising)

November 5, 2011November 18, 2011 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

In Tidhar’s imagination (something he gives free rein to in his fiction) not only does the revolutionary spirit of Guevara live on after his death.

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Lavie Tidhar. The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String. (The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 28th Annual Collection.)

August 7, 2011August 7, 2011 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

A little morsel, perhaps an intra-course palate cleanser, between the meatier fayre betwixt it sits.

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Lavie Tidhar. In the Season of the Mango Rains. (Interzone #234, May-June 2011)

June 12, 2011 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

Reflective two-pager, in which the protagonist looks back on his lost love, who has turned her back on life on Earth, and on him, for a future that is much less secure, much less concrete, and much less human.

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Lavie Tidhar. The Insurance Agent. (Interzone #230, Sep-Oct 2010)

December 15, 2010December 14, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

An imaginative piece.

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Lavie Tidhar. The Solnet Ascendancy. (Shine).

June 25, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

A light tone from Tidhar, as he looks at how Vanuatu transforms itself from an idyllic place with little technology, to a worldwide internet hub.

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Interzone Magazines Reviews 

Interzone #225, November/December 2009.

April 2, 2010April 2, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Colin Harvey, Jason Sanford, Jay Lake, Lavie Tidhar, Rebecca J. Payne, Shannon Page

A strong issue, with stories by Jason Sanford, Rebecca J. Payne, Colin Harvey, Lavie Tidhar, Shannon Page and Jay Lake.

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Lavie Tidhar. Funny Pages. (Interzone #225, Nov/Dec 2009).

March 29, 2010 Mark Watson 0 Comments Lavie Tidhar

Tongue-in-cheek superhero fun in Tel Aviv.

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Interzone #216 June 2008

February 16, 2010December 12, 2011 Mark Watson 0 Comments Anil Memon, Billie Aul, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Geoff Ryman, Lavie Tidhar, R.R. Angell

The much-trumpeted ‘mundane-SF’ issue edited by Geoff Ryman. I say much-trumpeted on the basis I spend little time on the

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