Lavie Tidhar ( he, לביא תדהר; 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
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and
Vanuatu
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. As of 2013, Tidhar lives in London. His novel '' Osama'' won the 2012
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
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, beating
Stephen King
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George R. R. Martin
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's ''
A Dance with Dragons
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Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize
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John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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in 2017, for ''Central Station''.
As of October 2019 Tidhar is a columnist for ''
The Washington Post
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kibbutz
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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.
Awards and honours
* 2022
Locus Award
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nominee, Best Anthology, for ''The Best of World SF: Volume 1''.
* 2022
Philip K. Dick Award
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British Fantasy Award
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nominee, Best Fantasy Novel, for ''By Force Alone''.
* 2021
Eugie Award
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nominee, for "Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law".
* 2021 Chinese Nebula (Xingyun) Award, Best Translated Fiction winner, for ''Central Station''.
* 2020 Stabby Award nominee, Best Short Fiction, for "Judge Dee and The Limits of the Law".
* 2020
Theodore Sturgeon Award
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, finalist for ''New Atlantis''.
* 2020
Seiun Award
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, Best Translated Novel category, shortlisted for ''A Man Lies Dreaming''
* 2019–2020 Fantastic Book Awards, nominated for ''Candy''.
* 2019 CWA Short Story Dagger, shortlisted for "Bag Man" (in The ''Outcast Hours'', edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin).
* 2019
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award, is an annual award presented by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best science fiction no ...
nominee, for ''Unholy Land''.
* 2019 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel nominee, for ''Unholy Land''.
* 2019 Premio Kelvin 505, Best Translated Novel nominee, for ''Central Station''.
* 2019
Locus Award
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, shortlisted for ''Unholy Land''.
* 2019
Kurd Laßwitz Award
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nominee, Best Foreign Novel, for ''Central Station''.
* 2019 Premio Italia nominee, Best International Novel, for ''Central Station''.
* 2019
Geffen Award
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nominee, Best Translated SF Novel, for ''A Man Lies Dreaming''.
* 2019 Kitschies Award nominee, Best Novel, for ''Unholy Land''.
* 2018 Sidwise Award nominee, Long Form, for ''Unholy Land''.
* 2018
The Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Speculative Fiction The Neukom Institute for Computational Science is a collection of offices and laboratory facilities at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The institute was funded by a donation from Bill Neukom in 2004, then Dartmouth's largest gift for an ...
, winner, for ''Central Station''.
* 2018
Geffen Award
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nominee, Best Translated SF Book, for ''Central Station''.
* 2017
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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winner, for ''Central Station''.
* 2017
Locus Award
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, shortlisted for ''Central Station''.
* 2017
Arthur C. Clarke Award
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, shortlisted for ''Central Station''.
* 2016 Premio Roma, Best Foreign Fiction category, shortlisted for ''A Man Lies Dreaming''.
* 2016
Seiun Award
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, Best Translated Novel category, shortlisted for ''The Violent Century''.
* 2016
International Dublin Literary Award
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, longlisted for ''A Man Lies Dreaming''.
* 2015
Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize
The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize is a literary award for eight British writers of outstanding works of fiction, who each receive £5,000.
* 2015
British Fantasy Award
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nominee, Best Novel, for ''A Man Lies Dreaming''
* 2015
British Fantasy Award
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nominee, Best Collection, for ''Black Gods Kiss''
* 2015
Gaylactic Spectrum Award
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nominee, Best Novel, for ''The Violent Century''
* 2015
International Dublin Literary Award
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, longlisted for ''The Violent Century''.
* 2012
World Fantasy Award
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winner, Best Novel, for ''Osama''.
* 2012
British Fantasy Award
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winner, Best Novella, for ''Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God''.
* 2012
BSFA Award
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winner, Non-Fiction, for The World SF Blog.
* 2012
John W. Campbell Memorial Award
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nominee, Best Novel, for ''Osama''.
* 2012
Sidewise Award
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Overview
The awards take their name from the 1934 short story " Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster, in ...
nominee, Long Form, for ''Camera Obscura''.
* 2012
BSFA Award
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nominee, Best Novel, for ''Osama''.
* 2012 Kitschies Award nominee, Best Novel, for ''Osama''.
* 2011
World Fantasy Award
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nominee, Special Award – Non Professional, for the World SF Blog.
* 2011 Sturgeon Award nominee, Best Short Story, for "The Night Train".
* 2011 Airship Award nominee, Best Novel, for ''Camera Obscura''.
* 2011 Geffen Award nominee, Best Novel, for ''The Tel Aviv Dossier'' (with Nir Yaniv)
* 2010 Last Drink Bird Head Award Winner, for the World SF Blog
* 2010 Geffen Award nominee, Best Novel, for ''Retzach Bidyoni'' (with Nir Yaniv)
* 2009 WSFA Small Press Award nominee, Best Short Story, for "Hard Rain at the Fortean Cafe"
* 2006 Geffen Award nominee, Best Short Story, for "Poter Ta'alumot Be'chesed"
* 2003 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition winner, for short story, "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs"
Bibliography
Novels
* '' Osama'', P S Publishing, 2011 (UK).
* ''The Violent Century'', Hodder & Stoughton, 2013 (UK) / Tachyon Publications, 2019 (US) Review in the Guardian * ''A Man Lies Dreaming'', Hodder & Stoughton, 2014 (UK) / Melville House, 2016 (US) Review in the Guardian * ''Central Station'', Tachyon Publications, 2016.
* ''Unholy Land'', Tachyon Publications, 2018.
* ''By Force Alone'', Head of Zeus, 2020 (UK) / Tor, 2020 (US) * ''The Hood'', Head of Zeus, 2021.
* ''The Escapement'', Tachyon Publications, 2021.
* ''Maror'', Head of Zeus, 2022 Review in the Guardian
Children's Books
* ''Candy'', Scholastic, 2018 (UK), Peachtree, 2020 (US, as ''The Candy Mafia'')
Pendragon press
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The first is a British small press based in Maesteg in Wales and specialising in science fiction, fantasy, horror and weird fiction. It is run by Christopher Teague. In 2005 t ...
2005. United States:
Apex Publications
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2010.
* ''Cloud Permutations''. United Kingdom:
PS Publishing
PS Publishing is an independent book publisher based in Hornsea, UK.
Background
PS Publishing was founded in 1999 by Peter Crowther.The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher a ...
2016. E-book edition published by Jabberwocky 2018.
* ''New Atlantis''. First published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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2019. E-book edition published by Jabberwocky 2020.
* ''The Big Blind''. United Kingdom: PS Publishing 2020.
Collections
* ''HebrewPunk''. United States:
Apex Publications
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. 2007. A collection of four linked short stories re-imagining
pulp
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* Dissolving pulp, highly purified cellulose used in fibre and film manufacture
* Pulp (paper), the fibrous material used to make paper
* Molded pulp, a packaging material
...
fantasy in
Jewish
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terms.
* ''Black Gods Kiss''. United Kingdom: PS Publishing. 2015. A collection of five linked short stories (including one novella) related to Tidhar's previous British Fantasy Award-winning novella ''Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God'' (2011).
* ''Terminale Terra''. Italy: Future Fiction, 2018. Collection of several SF short stories, in Italian translation.
* ''Venus in Bloom''. Japan: Hal-Con, 2019. Guest of honour collection published to coincide with Hal-Con 2019, collecting several SF short stories, in dual English and Japanese. Illustrated by Masato Hisa.
Comics
* "The Butcher & The Fly-Keeper: A Christmas Love Story", in Murky Depths #6, 2008, 6pp strip with artist Thomas Tuke.
* "Finger", in ''Murky Depths'' #10, 2009, 3pp strip with artist Neil Roberts.
* "Mr. Spellman's Last Dance", in ''Grave Conditions'', ed. Scott Nicholson, 2010, 6pp strip with artist Andre Siregar.
* "Mr. Spellman's Holiday", in ''Murky Depths'' #13, 2010, 9pp strip with artist Andre Siregar.
* ''Adolf Hitler's "I Dream of Ants!"''. United Kingdom: House of Murky Depths, 2012. With artist Neil Struthers.
* ''A Man Named Wolf''. Hodder & Stoughton 2014. Special promotional comic. With artist Neil Struthers.
* "New Swabia" in ''Outside''. Berlin: Ash Pure and Topics Press, 2017. 10pp strip with artist
Sarah Anne Langton
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.
* ''Adler'' #1. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
* ''Adler'' #2. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
* ''Adler'' #3. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
* ''Adler'' #4. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
* ''Adler'' #5. Titan Comics 2020. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
Picture Books
* ''Going to the Moon''. United Kingdom: House of Murky Depths, 2012. With artist Paul McCaffrey.
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.
* ''The Apex Book of World SF''. United States: Apex Publications. 2009.
* ''The Apex Book of World SF 2''. United States: Apex Publications. 2012.
* ''The Apex Book of World SF 3''. United States: Apex Publications. 2014.
As Series Editor
* ''The Apex Book of World SF 4''. United States: Apex Publications, 2015. Edited by Mahvesh Murad.
* ''The Apex Book of World SF 5''. United States: Apex Publications, 2018. Edited by Cristina Jurado.
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.
* ''The Best of World SF: Volume 1''. United Kingdom: Head of Zeus, 2021.
* ''The Best of World SF: Volume 2''. United Kingdom: Head of Zeus, 2022.
Jews vs... Series
* ''Jews vs Zombies''. With
Rebecca Levene
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Biography
Levene had a sitcom optione ...
. United Kingdom: Jurassic London, 2015.
* ''Jews vs Aliens''. With
Rebecca Levene
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Biography
Levene had a sitcom optione ...
. United Kingdom: Jurassic London, 2015.
Other
* ''A Dick & Jane Primer for Adults''. United Kingdom:
British Fantasy Society
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Publications, 2008
Short stories
Selected anthologies
* "The Greeen Caravanserai" - ''Out of the Ruins'', edited by Preston Grassman, Titan Books, 2021
* "Widow Maker" - ''The Book of Magic'', edited by Gardner Dozois, HarperVoyager 2018
* "Talking To Ghosts At The End Of The World" - ''Infinity's End'', edited by Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books 2018
* "Waterfalling" - ''The Book of Swords'', edited by
Gardner Dozois
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, Bantam Books 2017
* "The Drowned Celestrial" – ''
Old Venus
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'', edited by
George R. R. Martin
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and
Gardner Dozois
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Strange Horizons
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History and profile
It was launched in September 2000, and ...
'', 2010. Reprinted in both Gardner Dozois's ''The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection'' and in
Jonathan Strahan
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's ''The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5''.
* "The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String" – '' Fantasy Magazine'' 2010. Reprinted in Gardner Dozois's ''The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Eighth Annual Collection''
* "The Integrity of the Chain" – ''Fantasy Magazine'', 2009. Reprinted in Gardner Dozois' ''The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty Seventh Annual Collection''
* "Set Down This" – ''Phantom'', edited by
Sean Wallace
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and
Paul Tremblay
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People
Christianity
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, Prime Books 2009
* "One Day, Soon" – ''Lovecraft Unbound'', edited by
Ellen Datlow
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Career
Datlow began her career ...
,
Dark Horse Comics
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2009
* "Shira" – ''The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy'', edited by Ellen Datlow, Del Rey 2008
* "My travels with Al-Qaeda" – ''
Salon Fantastique
''Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy'' is a fantasy short story anthology edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
Contents
*''La Fée Verte'' by Delia Sherman
*''Dust Devil on a Quiet Street'' by Richard Bowes
*''To Measure ...
'', edited by Ellen Datlow and
Terry Windling
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Glorifying Terrorism
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'', edited by
Farah Mendlesohn
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, 2007
Selected stories in online magazines
* "Seven Vampires: A Judge Dee Mystery", Tor.com, 2022
* "Rain Falling in the Pines", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2021
* "Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre", Tor.com, 2021
* "Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels", Tor.com, 2021
* "Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law", Tor.com, 2020
* "Blue and Blue and Blue and Pink", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2020
* "In Xanadu", Tor.com, 2019
* "Venus in Bloom", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2019
* "Svalbard", PuzzleTales.com, 2019
* "Gubbinal", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2018
* "Yiwu", A Tor.com Original, 2018
* "The Old Dispensation", Tor.com, 2017
* "Terminal", A Tor.Com Original, 2015
* "Selfies", Tor.com, 2014
* "Dragonkin", Tor.com, 2013
* "Spider's Moon", Futurismic, 2009
* "304, Adolf Hitler Strasse", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2006
* "The Dope Fiend", Sci Fiction, 2005
The "Central Station" story cycle
Inspired by authors like
Cordwainer Smith
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Clifford D. Simak
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Zenna Henderson
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. Several of Tidhar's short stories relate to one another in the following chronological order, according to the author:
*"Under the Eaves", Robots: The Recent A.I., 2012 (Dozois’ Year's Best, Horton's Year's Best)
*"Robotnik", Dark Faith II, 2012
*''The Smell of Orange Groves'', Clarkesworld, 2011 (Dozois’ Year's Best, Strahan's Year's Best, Polish translation)
*"Crabapple", Daily Science Fiction, 2013
*The Lord of Discarded Things, Strange Horizons, 2012
*"Filaments", Interzone, 2013
*''Strigoi''. Interzone, 2012
*"The Book Seller". Interzone, 2013
*"The God Artist", unpublished
*"The Core", Interzone, 2013
*"The Birthing Clinics", unpublished
"Substantively different" versions of these stories form the basis of the
fix-up
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novel Central Station.
Short fiction
Non-Fiction
* ''Art and War''. Co-written with Shimon Adaf. United Kingdom: Repeater Books, 2016.
Trivia
Tidhar is referenced in several works of fiction:
* In Adam Roberts's ''Jack Glass'' (2012), "Tidharian" is referred to as a futuristic spoken language. "It was English Dia was speaking, after all: not Potpourri or Tidharian or Pidgin-Martian."
* In
Christopher Farnsworth
Christopher Farnsworth (born 1971) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the President's Vampire series of novels from G.P. Putnam's Sons and a former journalist.Shimon Adaf short story "third_attribute", the protagonist visits Tidhar's childhood home as he contemplates writing a thesis on Tidhar's Hebrew poetry. "He wanders along the Kibbutz pathways, but doesn’t become any wiser. A battered copy of ''Remnants of God'', Tidhar’s only poetry book in Jewish ewish? He knew Jewish once!held under his arm."
* In Nick Wood's ''Azanian Bridges'' (2016), Tidhar's ''Osama'' is mentioned as a banned book in the alternate history
South Africa
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of the novel.
* In
Charlie Kaufman
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's ''Antkind'' (2020), protagonist B. Rosenberger Rosenberg is portrayed as a former fan of Tidhar (along with
Isaac Asimov
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, death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. Robert Bloch, the author of '' Psycho'' ...
) turned against him. ""Yes," she screams, "Tidhar! You loved Tidhar!"" ... "I try to call after her, but I cannot. I cannot be a man who countenances Tidhar."Kaufman, Charlie. Antkind. NY: Random House, 2020
References
Further reading
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* Pei-chen Liao (2020). "Worlding Alternate Histories of the Post-9/11 Era: The Transnational Trend, Normalization, and the Dynamics of Memory", in ''Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction'', Palgrave Macmillan.
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* Morgan, Glyn (2020). "Reimagining Horror: The Plot Against America (2004), Farthing (2006), A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), and J (2014)", in ''Imagining the Unimaginable: Speculative Fiction and the Holocaust'', Bloomsbury Academic Press.
* McFarlane, Anna (2019). "Time and Affect After 9/11: Lavie Tidhar's Osama: A Novel". In ''Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction'', ed. Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel, Liverpool University Press.
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