- HebrewPunk
- Apex Publications 2007
- Introduction by Laura Anne Gilman
- Cover artwork by Melissa Gay
In this collection of four linked stories,
Hebrew mythology and traditional fantasy are fused together to create
HebrewPunk: fast-paced, kick-ass, in-your-face explorations of the way pulp
fantasy and mythic Jewish sensibility could have been, if only they got the
chance. Transylvania in World War II; the underworld of the dope trade in 20s
London; a secret expedition to turn-of-the-century British East Africa -
HebrewPunk is a book of secret histories that transforms and reinvents familiar
fantasy tropes, while remaining faithful to providing adventure! thrills! chases
- and escapes! May contain traces of golems.
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- What they Say
Lavie Tidhar has a unique and fascinating
voice, as well as a good sense of history—both
History Surreal and History Literary, as well as the
more mundane kind. Imagine Hard-Boiled Kabbalah, a
Godfather Rabbi whose gang includes vampires,
werewolves and (naturally) golems. If you like your
otherworld fun noir, have I got a book for you! —Kage
Baker
kick-ass kosher
adventures. Tidhar writes a sort of intensified
supernatural action-surrealism that fair rattles
along and is full of surprises—not only plot-twists
and thrills, but a level of conceptual surprise, a
reinvigoration of some of the more tired conventions
of the fantasy-horror genre. Zombies, golems,
werewolves, Rabbis, Kabbala, it’s all here, and all
saturated with a sense of exotic roundedness, an
eerie solidity and reality. Not to be missed. —Adam
Roberts
How well
I recall, as a lad aged some ten
years, circa 1937, reading Lavie
Tidhar’s stirring adventures in such
pulps as
Thrilling Hebrew Tales and
Yiddish
Excitement Quarterly. Even
then, these tales possessed a
fascinating air of archaic menace
and occult power. Now, some seventy
years after their original
publication, they positively radiate
the uncanny sensibilities of a
bygone era . . . Having these
rousing romps gathered at last into
the volume
HEBREWPUNK marks a milestone
in the literature of the fantastic.
—Paul Di Filippo
These four stories are wondrous, adventurous, and
thought-provoking - —Ellen Datlow
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- An Occupation of Angels
- Pendragon Press 2005
- Introduction by Liz Williams
- Cover artwork by Ben Baldwin
In 1945,
the Archangels materialised over the battlefields of
Europe, ushering in a new Cold War. Fifty years later, they are being killed
off... one by one. But who - or what - can kill an angel? Killarney is a shadow
executive for the Bureau, British Intelligence's most secret
organisation: so secret it doesn't even officially
exist. She is the best - and she always works alone. Sent on a desperate mission
to locate a missing cryptographer who may prove the key to the murders,
Killarney finds herself running for her life, from London to Paris to Moscow,
leading to a confrontation with a very human evil in the frozen wastelands of
Novosibirsk. Plagued by dreams of a different world, and haunted by a swastika
adorned with angel wings, it could take all of
Killarney's resources to survive, when heaven itself may be threatened, and God
herself may be walking the earth...
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What they say
- Sharp, brutal,
cool - yet also stunningly imaginative and perfectly
realised. This is the most compelling thing
I've read in a long time: the only bad thing was that it had to end
—Michael Marshall Smith
- The pace is
relentless, the tension continually ramped. A blackly humorous amalgam
of subtle SF invention and flat out thrills with a hard-boiled wiseass
hero. Great fun —Conrad Williams
- A fast moving,
powerfully phantasmagoric fantasy —Adam Roberts
- A
violent, exhilarating spy thriller —Ellen Datlow
- A novella of
blistering, ballistic energy and ferocious cleverness
— James
Lovegrove
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