![]() And, at least, we get to see Hitler punched in the face-quite often-as he fails throughout these short stories.Īs a major fan of Tidhar's, I was looking forward to that one and was slightly disappointed: not massively so, but just a bit. Wolf is a fucking awful man living among awful people in an England where fascism is rampant and his old cronies are surviving like the rats they are, where he bemoans the state of himself and yearns for a reality where he ruled Germany and the world (and again, we're reminded that he did rule Germany and much of Europe and machinated mass genocide and war). I was really pleased that Tidhar did not try to redeem or salvage Hitler-erm, Wolf-in any way, shape or form. ![]() This escapism links the horrifying realism of history, and is a constant reminder of all of the things the Nazis committed. The framing device is a father in the Warsaw ghetto, who imagines an alternate way history could have played out as he waits for the trains to take him and his family away. He also edited A Dick and Jane Primer for Adults (2008) wrote Michael Marshall Smith: The Annotated Bibliography (2004) wrote weird picture book Going to The Moon (2012, with artist Paul McCaffery) and scripted one-shot comic Adolf Hitler’s I Dream of Ants! (2012, with artist Neil Struthers).Īn interesting alternate history where Adolf Hitler lost the 1933 election to the communists and existed thereafter as a down on his luck private eye in London. He is also editor-in-chief of the World SF Blog, and in 2011 was a finalist for a World Fantasy Award for his work there. Tidhar advocates bringing international SF to a wider audience, and has edited The Apex Book of World SF (2009) and The Apex Book of World SF 2 (2012). ![]() Much of Tidhar’s best work is done at novella length, including An Occupation of Angels (2005), Cloud Permutations (2010), British Fantasy Award winner Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God (2011), and Jesus & the Eightfold Path (2011). His latest novels are Martian Sands and The Violent Century. It won the 2012 World Fantasy Award, and was a finalist for the Campbell Memorial Award, British Science Fiction Award, and a Kitschie. Standalone novel Osama (2011) combines pulp adventure with a sophisticated look at the impact of terrorism. The Bookman Histories series, combining literary and historical characters with steampunk elements, includes The Bookman (2010), Camera Obscura (2011), and The Great Game (2012). He co-wrote dark fantasy novel The Tel Aviv Dossier (2009) with Nir Yaniv. Linked story collection HebrewPunk (2007) contains stories of Jewish pulp fantasy. Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs won the 2003 Clarke-Bradbury competition, sponsored by the European Space Agency, while The Night Train (2010) was a Sturgeon Award finalist. Tidhar began publishing with a poetry collection in Hebrew in 1998, but soon moved to fiction, becoming a prolific author of short stories early in the 21st century. He has travelled extensively since he was a teenager, living in South Africa, the UK, Laos, and the small island nation of Vanuatu. Lavie Tidhar was raised on a kibbutz in Israel.
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