Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar has written at least 158 books. Their most popular book is Central Station with 62 saves with an average rating of 3.26⭐.
Author Bio
Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award winning author of Osama (2011), Seiun nominated The Violent Century (2013), the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the Campbell Award, Neukom Prize and Chinese Nebula winning Central Station (2016), Prix Planete SF winner and Locus and Campbell award nominated Unholy Land (2018), British Fantasy Award nominated By Force Alone (2021), Philip K. Dick Award nominated The Escapement (2021), The Hood (2021), Locus Award nominated Neom (2022) and The Circumference of the World (2023).
His literary fiction career began with the highly-regarded Maror (2022) and followed by Adama (2023) and Six Lives (2024). Golgotha is forthcoming in 2025.
As a children’s author he wrote middle-grade novel Candy (2018 UK; as The Candy Mafia 2020 US) and co-wrote The Children’s Book of the Future (2024). He also created the comics mini-series Adler (#1-#5, 2020) and edited The Best of World SF anthology series (2021-2023).
Lavie works across genres, combining detective and thriller modes with poetry, science fiction and historical and autobiographical material. His work has variously been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by the Guardian and the Financial Times, to Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk by Publishers Weekly and to Kurt Vonnegut by Locus.
Lavie’s media appearances have included Channel 4 News, Radio 4, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Ulster and others.
Lavie’s speaking engagements have included a wide range of events, including for the Ministry of Defence, Cambridge University, English PEN, the Singapore Writers Festival and various Guest of Honour appearances in Japan, Poland, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, China and elsewhere.
Lavie’s occasional commissions include work for Conde Nast, Braingle/Puzzle Tales, I Speak Machine/Penguin Random House, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum Berlin, New Scientist, Pigeon Studio and SF Studios (film consulting).
Lavie was a regular book columnist for the Washington Post. He also wrote a monthly column for the Vanuatu Daily Post. Additional bylines have appeared in The Independent, The Guardian, Nature, New Scientist, SFX, io9 and others.
He is one-half of animation micro-studio Positronish, where he works on short-form animation series and film.
Lavie is currently a Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at Richmond, The American International University in London.
Lavie is represented by John Berlyne of the Zeno Literary Agency. For any query, please contact the agency.
 Central Station
| 3.26 | 21 reads | |
 By Force Alone
| 3.68 | 13 reads | |
 The Book of Swords | 3.36 | 15 reads | |
 Unholy Land
| 4.1 | 13 reads | |
 The Circumference of the World
| 3.5 | 6 reads | |
 The Bookman
| 3 | 10 reads | |
 Sunvault
| 3 | 3 reads | |
 Neom
| 3.8 | 10 reads | |
 Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law
| 4.12 | 13 reads | |
 The Violent Century
| 3.5 | 7 reads | |
 Osama
| 3.2 | 11 reads | |
 A Man Lies Dreaming
| 2.83 | 8 reads | |
 Rip-Off! Rip-Off!
| 3.43 | 9 reads | |
 Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction | 3 | 1 read | |
 Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition
| 4 | 4 reads | |
 Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021 Edition
| 4.5 | 5 reads | |
 The Best of World SF, Volume 1 | 3.83 | 4 reads | |
 Fungi
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Drowned Worlds
| 3.6 | 5 reads | |
 The Escapement
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Out of the Ruins
| 3 | 3 reads | |
 Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels
| 4 | 9 reads | |
 The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
| 2.83 | 4 reads | |
 Far Out | 0 | 0 reads | |
 Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2020 Edition
| 0 | 1 read | |
 Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre
| 4.14 | 7 reads | |
 Bewere the Night | 0 | 1 read | |
 Camera Obscura
| 3.67 | 3 reads | |
 Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript
| 4.5 | 6 reads | |
 Other Covenants Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People
| 3 | 3 reads | |
 Maror
| 5 | 1 read | |
 The Great Game
| 3 | 2 reads | |
 The Best of World SF: Volume 2 | 3.5 | 2 reads | |
 Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal
| 4.2 | 5 reads | |
 Yiwu
| 3.67 | 5 reads | |
 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
| 4 | 3 reads | |
 Apex Magazine, Issue 129, January 2022
| 3.25 | 5 reads | |
The Old Dispensation The Old Dispensation
| 4 | 3 reads | |
 HebrewPunk HebrewPunk
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection
| 3 | 1 read | |
 Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities
| 3 | 3 reads | |
 Deep Dream | 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015
| 0 | 1 read | |
 Unidentified Funny Objects
| 3.5 | 2 reads | |
 The Hood
| 4.5 | 1 read | |
 Jews versus Zombies
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Book of Magic The Book of Magic
| 0 | 1 read | |
 Jews versus Aliens Jews versus Aliens
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Apex Book of World SF 4
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 The Apex Book of World SF 2
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 New Atlantis New Atlantis
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 Martian Sands
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction | 3.5 | 3 reads | |
 Arc 1.3: Afterparty Overdrive
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 Shine Shine | 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Outcast Hours | 2 | 1 read | |
 Reports from the Deep End: Stories Inspired by J. G. Ballard | 0 | 0 reads | |
 We See a Different Frontier: A postcolonial speculative fiction anthology
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Clarkesworld: Year Four | 4 | 1 read | |
 The Lowest Heaven | 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Apex Book of World SF
| 5 | 1 read | |
 Jews vs Omnibus: Jews vs Aliens and Jews vs Zombies
| 0 | 0 reads | |
Funny Science Fiction Funny Science Fiction
| 0 | 0 reads | |
Best of British Science Fiction 2020 Best of British Science Fiction 2020
| 4 | 2 reads | |
Best of British Science Fiction 2018 Best of British Science Fiction 2018
| 4 | 2 reads | |
Selfies Selfies
| 3.5 | 2 reads | |
 Terminal
| 3 | 2 reads | |
 The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Tel Aviv Noir
| 0 | 0 reads | |
Phantom Phantom
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 An Occupation of Angels
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 The Lunacy Commission
| 0 | 0 reads | |
The Apex Book of World SF 3 The Apex Book of World SF 3
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Best of British Science Fiction 2022
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Adler: Volume 1
| 4 | 1 read | |
 The Bookman Histories
| 0 | 0 reads | |
The Apex Book of World SF 5 The Apex Book of World SF 5 | 0 | 0 reads | |
ISF - International Speculative Fiction # 2 ISF - International Speculative Fiction # 2
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Apex Book of World SF, Volume 1
| 3 | 1 read | |
 The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery
| 5 | 1 read | |
Seven Vampires Seven Vampires
| 5 | 1 read | |
 The Candy Mafia
| 3 | 1 read | |
 Estación Central
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Dragonkin
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Cloud Permutations
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 Centrální stanice
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Wanted
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 For Mortal Things Unsung
| 0 | 0 reads | |
Interzone #290/#291 Interzone #290/#291
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5 | 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Best of World SF: Volume 3 | 0 | 0 reads | |
 Of the Flesh
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 תל אביב נואר | 0 | 0 reads | |
 Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing | 0 | 0 reads | |
 Descended from Darkness | 0 | 0 reads | |
 Best New Horror #26 | 3 | 1 read | |
Best New Horror 25 Best New Horror 25 | 3 | 1 read |