Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar (; born 16 November 1976) is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres. He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time, as well as Laos and Vanuatu. As of 2013, Tidhar lives in London. His novel "Osama" won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, beating Stephen King's "11/22/63" and George R. R. Martin's "A Dance with Dragons". His novel "A Man Lies Dreaming" won the £5000 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, for Best British Fiction, in 2015. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award  for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2017, for "Central Station". As of October 2019 Tidhar is a columnist for "The Washington Post". 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 traveller into several of his works. Bibliography. Novels. Children's Books Others. The Bookman Histories 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. As Series Editor 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. Short stories. The "Central Station" story cycle. Inspired by authors like Cordwainer Smith, C.L. Moore, Clifford D. Simak, Philip K. Dick and Zenna Henderson. Several of Tidhar's short stories relate to one another in the following chronological order, according to the author: "Substantively different" versions of these stories form the basis of the fix-up novel Central Station. Trivia. Tidhar is referenced in  several works of fiction: