Books by Lavie Tidhar

The second book in Lavie Tidhar's Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet - a subversive remixing of the myths and legends that shaped our nation. Will Scarlet, back from the crusades, hopped up on khat and cider and stabbed thrice in the belly but somehow still alive, is heading home to Nottingham. And things are not right in Nottingham.

"Into the reality called the Escapement rides the Stranger, a lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son from a parallel world. But it is too easy to get lost on a shifting landscape full of dangerous versions of his son's most beloved things: cowboys gone lawless, giants made of stone, downtrodden clowns, ancient battles, symbol storms, and shadowy forces at play. But the flower the Stranger seeks still lies beyond the Mountains of Darkness. Time is running out, as he journeys deeper and deeper into the secret heart of an unforeseen world"--Provided by publisher.

It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!

Twenty-six stories, selected by editor Donna Scott from disparate places, that represent some of the best SF published anywhere in 2018; dreamlike glimpses of pristine worlds that will destroy us before we destroy them; stories of work-based friendships, mistrust and isolation; of alienation and othering; stories of slavery given an acceptable face through beautiful voice and the ever-present need to keep fighting injustice; stories of bodily choice being made a crime; stories of rebellions we thought we'd already had but need to have again. We have another end to childhood. And we have the murder of story itself, involving an AI...Full contents:Introduction by Donna ScottProvidence - Alastair ReynoldsTalking to Ghosts at the Edge of the World - Lavie TidharThe Miracle Lambs of Minane - Finbarr O'ReillyTerritory Blank - Aliya WhiteleyThrow Caution - Tim MajorGolgotha - Dave HutchinsonSalvation - Dave BradleyWaterbirds - G.V. AndersonBuddy System - Mike MorganDo No Harm - Anna IbbotsonA Change of Heart - Hannah TougherBirnam Platoon - Natalia TheodoridouGood - Sunyi DeanHard Times in Nuovo Genova - Chris BarnhamThe Escape Hatch - Matthew de AbaituaP.Q. - James WarnerThe Purpose of the Dodo is to be Extinct - Malcolm DevlinCat and Mouse - David TallermanBefore They Left - Colin GreenlandHarry's Shiver - Esme CarpenterThe Whisperer - J.K. FultonDeath of the Grapevine - Teika Marija SmitsRainsticks - Matt ThompsonThe Veilonaut's Dream - Henry SzabranskiDoomed Youth - Fiona MooreF Sharp 4 - Tim Pieraccini

Tel Aviv is the only home Charlie, the child of a Filipino guest worker, has known but although he tries hard to fit in, he sometimes feels like an outsider.

Editor Donna Scott has selected the very best short fiction by British authors published during 2017. Twenty-two stories, from established names and rising stars of genre fiction.Introduction - Donna ScottBlinders - Tyler KeevilIn the Night of the Comet - Adam RobertsThe Walls of Tithonium Chasma - Tim Major3.8 Missions - Katie GrayOver You - Jaine FennThe Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make for Yourself - Matt DoveyUniquo - Aliya WhiteleyLooking for Laika - Laura MauroA Good Citizen - Anne CharnockMercury Teardrops - Jeff NoonThe Nightingales in Plàtres - Natalia TheodoridouThe Road to the Sea - Lavie TidharWhen I Close My Eyes - Chris BarnhamTargets - Eric BrownLondon Calling - Philip A. SuggarsThe Last Word - Ken MacLeodAfter the Atrocity - Ian CreaseyVoicemail - Karen McCreedyGreen Boughs Will Cover Thee - Sarah ByrneAirless - N.J. RamsdenProduct Recall - Robert BagnallThe Endling Market - E. J. SwiftAbout the Authors.

In a 19th century unlike our own, the shadowy assassin known as the Bookman moves unseen. His weapons are books; his enemies are many. And when Orphan, a young man with a mysterious past, loses his love to the sinister machinations of the Bookman, Orphan would stop at nothing to bring her back from the dead.InThe Bookman, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar writes a love letter to books, and to the serial literature of the Victorian era: full of hair-breadth escapes and derring-dos, pirates and automatons, assassins and poets, a world in which real life authors mingle freely with their fictional creations and where nothing is quite as it seems.New 2016 edition includes the novelette ';Murder in the Cathedral'. Discover, truthfully, what actually happened when Orphan visited Paris.File Under:Steampunk[Alternate Victorian London | Reptilian royalty | Diabolical anarchists | Extraordinary adventure!]

CAN'T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the start. This whirlwind adventure will take Milady to the highest and lowest parts of that great city - and cause her to question the very nature of reality itself.File Under:Steampunk[ Alternate History | Reptilian Royalty | Murder Most Foul | The World's Fair ]