HANGING NOTICE:
I am currently living in Vanuatu, in the South Pacific. Internet access is patchy, and updates to this site may be irregular.
My blog might have more updated information for a while. In the meantime - thanks for dropping by, and if you're ever in the South Pacific, come visit us and say hello!
5th April, 2007
I am now in Vanuatu. Working on a new novelette. New stories now available: "Excerpts from The Traveller's Guide to the Lake Nyassa Region" online at Trabuco Road, "The Gunslinger of Chelem" in print in Apex Digest #9, "What the Thunder Said" online at Strange Horizons.
8th January, 2007
"Revolution Time" is now live on Rudy Rucker's Flurb. Hooray! And "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" is now available in issue 8 of Apex Digest.
Two more short stories sold. Novelette "Excerpts from The Traveller's Guide to the Lake Nyassa Region" to Trabuco Road, and 800-worder "Hello Goodbye" to GUD Magazine.
2nd January, 2007
My new story, "Burial of the Dead", is now available at Chizine; "High Noon in Clown Town" should be available in Postscripts; and "The Infinite Monkeys Protocol" is now available in the first issue of GUD Magazine.
13th December, 2006
I've updated the short stories page with cover scans of the most recent print publications (including Fantasy Magazine, Postscripts, Salon Fantastique, Clarkesworld Magazine, Aegri Somnia and the Glorifying Terrorism anthology) so check it out.
Glorifying Terrorism will be out in January 2007, including stories from Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, Hal Duncan and many others. It can be ordered via paypal from GT.booksales@gmail.com for £15.00 (including p&p).
7th December, 2006
My story "Burial of the Dead" will appear in
the January-March issue of Chizine.
4th December, 2006
The first part (of 2) of my SF story "Generations" is now available over at Son & Foe.
And, Aegri Somnia is officially released, with my story "Letters from Weirdside". There are both hardcover and paperback editions, and a very small number of collectors' copies signed by all the contributors.
11th November, 2006
Pendragon Press are offering a Special Christmas Pack for £12.00 that includes An Occupation of Angels, as well as Rhys Hughes' At The Molehills of Madness, and Gary McMahon's Rough Cuts.
8th November, 2006
Two new story sales: My story "Daydreams" will be published in a forthcoming issue of Apex Digest, and "Angels over Israel: Three Slides" will be published in a forthcoming issue of Aeon Magazine.
Also, "Cell" will be reprinted in the forthcoming anthology Future Syndicate.
1st November, 2006
"The Sun Diary" is now available in issue #6 of Flytrap. Meanwhile, Locus had this to say about 304, Adolf Hitler Strasse:
Lavie Tidhar's 304, Adolph Hitler Strasse penetratingly scourges the mentality of Nazism and anti-Semitism, presenting an alternate history of German victory in World War Two that proceeds to swallow itself up, consumed by the frenzy of its own degenerate fetishism. Tidhar is an emerging master, and as usual, he pulls no punches at all. - Nick Gevers, Locus.
There is also a nice review of my story "Happy Days with Dick & Jane", and of the anthology Gods and Monsters in general, over at Tangent Online.
25th October, 2006
"High Windows" is now up at Strange Horizons.
19th October, 2006
Reviews of 304, Adolf Hitler Strasse now up at SF Site and Tangent Online.
In what I consider an extremely judicious editorial choice, Lavie Tidhar's story follows Monette's, takes the quiet contentment I felt at the end of "A Light in Troy" and holds it hostage before slowly hacking it to death... I began reading warily, prepared to be extremely critical, and found myself completely awed." - SF Site.
5th October, 2006
in the latest Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, my stories "The Heist", The Dope Fiend, and An Occupation of Angels all received Honorable Mentions. In addition, Ellen Datlow said of Angels that it is a violent, exhilarating spy thriller/fantasy held together by the skin of its teeth by a talented new writer.
1st October, 2006
"304, Adolf Hitler Strasse" is now at Clarkesworld Magazine.
11th September, 2006
My Hebrew story Poter Ta'alumot Be'chesed (Solving Mysteries in Chesed or, as I might call it if I get around to translating it, The Body in the Bakery) has been short-listed for the Israeli Geffen Award for Best Short Story.
6th September, 2006
My Hebrew story "The Gunslinger of Chelem" is now online at the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy's web site. The English translation of the story will appear in issue 9 of Apex Digest.
And "The Dope Fiend" has just been published in Poland in Nowa Fantastyka.
17th August, 2006
MY story "The House on Adolf Hitler Strasse" will be published by Clarkesworld Magazine in October, both online and in a signed limited edition chapbook. It's not a nice story.
"Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" will be published in a future issue of Apex Digest, and also in a French SF anthology from Bragelonne.
"The Infinite Monkeys Protocol" will appear in the first issue of GUD Magazine.
Quite a busy month...
July 25th, 2006
Not much news to report, but a couple of reviews came in of Triquorum One, with The Zone being particularly nice about my novelette there:
Leaves of Glass is undoubtedly the best story in Triquorum One... Boldly imaginative and full of rich imagery... As with many great stories, Tidhar's amazing tale leaves us hypnotised, and wishing for more... makes the most of its brevity, cramming a multitude of extraordinary scenes into less than two-dozen pages, and is all the more fascinating because of its concise and energetic narrative style.
There is also a nice review at the Some Fantastic e-zine.
July 11th, 2006
For a limited period (until 15th of August), as it is currently recommended for a BFS Award, you can download a free PDF copy of An Occupation of Angels.
And All the Wonder in the World has just been reviewed by Lois Tilton on IROSF, calling it "poetic and poignant... recommended."
June 29th, 2006
"Some Notes Towards a Working Definition of Steampunk" is now available in issue 6 of Apex Digest. Also, in turns out that my article on "Science Fiction, Globalization and the People's Republic of China" has been reprinted in Italian, in an edition of Patrick W. Murphy and Wu Dingbo's anthology Science Fiction from China.
And my story "The Prisoner in the Forest" will be in a forthcoming issue of Electric Velocepede.
June 16th, 2006
An Occupation of Angels is on the recommended list for the British Fantasy Award. And I also found out that The Dope Fiend was on the long list for the The Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award (the full list can be seen here).
June 10th, 2006
"2005: The UK Small Press in Review" is up at The Internet Review of Science Fiction.
In story sales, Flytrap just accepted "The Sun Diary" for its sixth issue, and I'll also have a story (title still uncertain) in the protest anthology Glorifying Terrorism edited by Farah Mendlesohn. There's some good news I still can't talk about - hopefully soon.
And finally, I succumbed and started a blog (under the pretext that it might help me be more regimented with the new novel). I'll probably add a perma-link in the menu bar at some point...
June 2nd, 2006
Check out Neil Ayres' new blog, Pacifist Guerilla, where he's just reprinted my story "Family Ties" - he also has a copy of An Occupation of Angels to give away.
May 24th, 2006
I've delivered my story for the Aegri Somnia anthology, called "Letters from Weirdside". The anthology should appear around December. I've also added a couple of quotes for "Leaves of Glass" from new reviews of Triquorum One over at the books page.
May 12th, 2006
"All the Wonder in the World" is now up at Abyss & Apex.
May 2nd, 2006
"Crucifixation" has just appeared in a new chapbook from Apex Digest: The Best of Apex 2005: Vol. I.
Two stories have just appeared in Hebrew: "The Jerusalem Theatre" in The Tenth Dimension, and "Cell" in Chalomot Be'aspamia #14. Covers can be seen on the Translations Page.
I've also found out that the readers of the Polish magazine Nowa Fantastyka voted "Transylvanian Mission" second in their annual poll of best foreign short story - the magazine will also be taking "The Dope Fiend" for publication.
"Generations" has been accepted for publication by Son & Foe.
And since I mentioned the Ellen Datlow
interview below, here is another one, with Keith Brooke on
SF Site: Some of the
newer writers I'm particularly excited about include Neil Williamson, Anna
Tambour, Chris Dolley, Jason Erik Lundberg, and Lavie Tidhar.
April 11th, 2006
"Bones" is now up at The Fortean Bureau.
April 6th, 2006
After two months of silence several good things came at once. First, Triquorum One is now out, and the first 50 copies are signed by myself, Allen Ashley and John Grant. It will be launched at Eastercon next week, though I won't be there. Paul di Filippo wrote the introduction.
I also sold three stories just now - "High Windows" to Strange Horizons (for a possible September publication), "Bones" to the last issue of Fortean Bureau, and "The Book in the Earth" to new UK magazine Forgotten Worlds. There's a possible fourth in the works, but it's not been confirmed yet.
And, to add to my general being-pleased with myself, in a recent interview Ellen Datlow was asked who she considers to be the newer crop of writers to watch out for, and she was kind enough to mention me in her list, which I'm obviously chuffed about!
March 26th, 2006
"Crucifixation" is now online at Infinity Plus.
March 20th, 2006
I have a new Hebrew story up at the new, improved Bli Panika.
March 15th, 2006
I forgot to mention that my coverage of Icon 2005, the Israeli SF convention, now appears in the March issue of Locus.
March 14th, 2006
No updates for a while - been away, and it's also been a very quiet month... However:
William D. Gagliani has reviewed An Occupation of Angels over at Chizine, and there's also a review at The Eternal Night.
There's a new interview with me, courtesy of Neil Ayres, up at Laura Hird, so check it out!
Finally, I sold "Some Notes Towards a Working Definition of Steampunk" To Apex Digest, possibly for issue 6.
February 10th, 2006
My interview with Wu Yan, on Chinese science fiction and much more, is now available at The Internet Review of Science Fiction.
And the first proper copies of An Occupation of Angels have now come back from the printers and, I've been told, are making their way to everyone who's pre-ordered. I got my copies a couple of days ago, and I must say they look great - Ben Baldwin did an excellent job on the cover art and design. And things are on track for the launch of Triquorum One, also from Pendragon Press, at Eastercon in April, with Paul Di Filippo doing the introduction. This mini-anthology will feature my story "Leaves of Glass", and stories by John Grant and Allen Ashley.
January 26th, 2006
My story "My Travels with Al-Qaeda" will be published in the original anthology Salon Fantastique, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling, to be published by Thunder's Mouth Press in New York in Fall 2006. A major sale for me, and a story I think is one of the best I've ever written...
And I just had note that my story "Alienation and Love in the Hebrew Alphabet" has been submitted by the editors of Chizine to the Foundation Award, which is nice... Cheers Brett!
January 22nd, 2006
"Lavie Tidhar is a fast-rising writer whose novelette, "The Dope Fiend", juxtaposes traditional Jewish, Chinese, and West Indian beliefs against the hedonistic and crime-ridden background of London in the '20s. Three underworld figures, including a defrocked Tzaddik, all love a beautiful flapper who died of a drug overdose; their efforts to resurrect her (or not) draw in a demonic visitor from another of the Kabbalistic Sefiroth, and perilous chases ensue through the low dives, opium dens, and catacombs of the Imperial capital. The ride is fast and exhilarating, if a little ragged around the edges; with his strong sense of place and considerable dark eloquence, Tidhar could soon compete with the great Kim Newman in the field of the postmodern supernatural secret history." - Nick Gevers, Locus.
"The very last story [on Sci Fiction] is from one of the more interesting recent arrivals on the SF scene: Israeli-born British resident Lavie Tidhar, who combines his heritage and current home in "The Dope Fiend". The story is set in 1920s London and combines Jewish supernatural traditions with voodoo, as an immortal man deals with intrusions from the land of the dead, particularly a beautiful Englishwoman that he and a Jamaican drug dealer and a Chinese man had all loved." - Rich Horton, Locus.
January 19th, 2006
An Occupation of Angels has just been reviewed in SFX! While it is not an entirely enthusiastic review, they do say it "sparkles with the odd touch of brilliance..."
In other news, I'll have a story in the forthcoming anthology Read by Dawn, published as part of the Scottish horror film festival Dead by Dawn.
January 14th, 2006
Aeon Magazine released the cover of issue #6, which contains my story "Midnight Folk". You can preview the issue's contents (it goes on sale in February) here.
January 13th, 2006
"Thrilling Wonder Stories #52: The Invasion of the Zog" (God I love that title!) has just been published in the Greek magazine Ennea ("9) - my 6th story to be published there.
January 9th, 2006
A new review of An Occupation of Angels is up at The Zone, where Patrick Hudson says:
"the hectic pace clearly demands a driving rock soundtrack. This combination of spy thriller action and hard-edged modern fantasy delivers a taut tale of suspense and violence... Tidhar is a rising star in the British fantasy and SF scene and this dark thriller gives ample demonstration of why... [this] tale of otherworldly intrigue will stick with you long after you've finished it."
January 7th, 2006
Just heard that "Children of the Revolution" will appear in issue 2 of Fantasy Magazine.
I popped into one of my favourite bookshops on Charing Cross Road yesterday, not intending to buy anything (not having the money to do so!) and so, of course, ended up with four books... I picked up the rare Encyclopedia of Cigarette Tricks from 1937, as well as the more general The Art of Conjuring; the first volume of Cromer's Modern Egypt from 1909; and finally, not only discovered that the great Polish writer Janusz Korczak is being re-published in English by Vintage, but picked up a rare English-language biography of Korczak published in Poland in the late 70s.
Then I went to the pub in soho Karl Marx used to drink in. Sometimes you can't beat living in London.
January 4th, 2006
A publicity poster for An Occupation of Angels, from the kind people at Aeon Magazine - look out for my story "Midnight Folk" coming soon in issue 6!
January 3rd, 2006
"The Dope Fiend" is now up at Sci Fiction!
An Occupation of Angels got a nice mention at SFRevu.com, where John Berlyne called it
an "impressive novella... a breathless adventure story, finely crafted and rammed home with the assured confidence of an author very much in his stride."My story "Children of the Revolution" just sold to the new Fantasy Magazine.
Finally, the first interview in a series covering figures from international science fiction just sold to The Internet Review of Science Fiction: an interview with Chinese writer and editor Wu Yan. I will also have a brief article in Locus about the 2005 Israeli SF convention, Icon.
December 26th, 2005
A new review of An Occupation of Angels is now available at Emerald City.
December 12th, 2005
Today is that rarest of days - a 3-sales day! News today that my stories "All the Wonder in the World" and "Flash" went to Abyss & Apex and Shadowed Realms respectively, and that "The Pattern-Makers of Zanzibar" has just appeared in Greek translation in Ennea ("9").
December 11th, 2005
Some photos from the launch are now available at Pendragon Press.
The first review of An Occupation of Angels is now available, as well as an interview with me and a short story, The Jerusalem Theatre - all at Apex Online, where I am the featured author for December.
...and "Baobabs" is now available at The Fortean Bureau.
Also news that "Transylvanian Mission" will appear shortly in Chinese (in the excellent Fantasy World magazine) and "The Jerusalem Theatre" will appear in a Hebrew translation in the (equally excellent) The Tenth Dimension.
December 5th, 2005
The launch went well, and it seems we sold out of advance reading copies. Thanks to everyone who came, and everyone who bought a copy! The "proper" first printing (of 100 signed and numbered copies) should be available around mid-Dec.
December 1st, 2005
News came in that my novelette "Leaves of Glass" will feature in a new 3-author collection from Pendragon Press called Triquorum One. The other writers are John Grant and Allen Ashley. I've added details on the Books & Chapbooks Page.
November 29th, 2005
My crime novelette "The Ludgate Engine", featuring Samantha Eliot, will be published in the next issue of Thriller UK, which previously published the first Samantha Eliot mystery, "In Search of Livingstone". I still have plans for Sam...
In translation news, "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" appears in the new Portuguese magazine Bang! though I've not seen a copy yet. To see a cover scan of that and the recent Polish translation of "Transylvanian Mission" please go to the Translations Page.
In An Occupation of Angels news, meantime: due to a technical error the first fifty copies will feature a plain white back-cover. These will all be signed but will not be available for sale outside the launch at the BFS Open Night on Friday. To get hold of one contact Pendragon Press, or come to the launch this Friday.
BFS Open Night
When: December 2nd 2005, 6:30pm onwards
Where: The Devereux, Devereaux Court, off Essex St, off The Strand,
London
Transport: Nearest tubes: Temple/Chancery Lane/Blackfriars. Nearest BRs:
Blackfriars/Waterloo East
Directions: Please see
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/47/476/Devereux/Temple
November 13th, 2005
I just heard from Ellen Datlow that Sci Fiction will be closing at the end of the year, which is, well, pants really... "The Dope Fiend" will go up there on the 28th of December, so I guess that would make it the last story published by Sci Fiction. Which, again, is pants. :-(
Meanwhile, "Alienation and Love in the Hebrew Alphabet" has been published by Infinity Plus, and An Occupation of Angels is now available to order from Amazon UK.
Finally, Apex Online, the web site of the excellent Apex Digest, will have me as Featured Author for December. This will include a reprint of my 2003 story "The Jerusalem Theatre", an interview, and a review of An Occupation of Angels (which you can now purchase from Amazon UK. Did I already mention that?)
In Hebrew-related news, my second short-short angels story, "A Year of Angels", has been published at Bli-Panika. The three-story sequence is called "Angels over Israel: Three Slides" and should be available in English soon. Hebrew readers can also check out Nir Yaniv's libellous but rather funny account of Worldcon here (a longer and even more libellous account in English starts with this Livejournal entry).
I'm planning on doing a Hebrew version of the site at some point. Don't hold your breath though...
November 10th, 2005
The new site is up and running - not completely finished, but I think it's better than the previous version. I hope. Will report news later...
October 6th, 2005
I am nearly finished with the site re-design - it should go live as soon as I put the finishing touches to it.
Meanwhile, I had one - two - three good pieces of news in the last month.
1) The Dope Fiend, a 15,000 word novelette, was sold to Ellen Datlow for Sci Fiction.
2) High Noon in Clown Town, a short story, sold to Peter Crowther's Postscripts magazine.
3) I am currently a finalist for Writers of the Future.
Rockin'!
September 12th, 2005
Some very good news coming soon, but in the meantime: "Crucifixation" has just been published in Greek magazine "9" - the story's third translation and my fourth sale to this excellent magazine - and "Transylvanian Mission" is appearing in the September issue of Polish magazine Nowa Fantastyka. Cover scans etc. when I have them. Watch this space for a major announcement!
August 16th, 2005
Back from Worldcon. It was a combination of fun and work, and we came back with quite a few hours of film, mainly interviews. It was good.
News came in that my story, The Curious History of the Micro-Cynicon, received an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #18, which is nice. Latest publication meanwhile is "Demon Dreams", in the anthology The Blackest Death Vol. 2.
July 28th, 2005
This is my last update for a while (summer is notoriously quiet!), but I will be in Glasgow 4-8 of August for Worldcon and the documentary.
July 12th, 2005
My Hebrew story, "Shira", is now available at the Israeli SF/F Society's website.
I will be at Worldcon in Glasgow in August as part of a documentary I am co-producing. Should be fun.
July 6th, 2005
Busy month, both work-wise and with publications. The big news (for me, at least) is that Aeon Magazine are buying my story "Midnight Folk", which is one of my favourites (A Jack Kerouac noir fantasy... ahem).
Out now:
"Crucifixation" in Apex Digest #2.
A fun alternate-history story, "The Baha'i and Science Fiction: A Re-Examination" (inspired in turn by my - serious - article on the topic in the Internet Review of Science Fiction a while back) in Nanobison.
And "The Life We Don't See" in Dawn Sky.
June 11th, 2005
"Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" was just published in the Greek magazine The Dramaturges of Yann, and I've updated the fiction page with some recent Greek covers. Meanwhile, the quotes keep coming for An Occupation of Angels - the most recent is from Adam Roberts, who calls it a:
fast moving, powerfully phantasmagoric fantasy; a gorgeous mutant cross between James Bond, Constantine and Rilke. Sharp, witty, violent and liable to haunt your dreams. Don't say you weren't warned...
Coming in the next few days: the first English appearance of "Crucifixation", previously published in French and Hebrew, in the second issue of Apex Digest.
June 6th, 2005
There is now a pre-order page for my new novella, An Occupation of Angels, coming Jan. 2005 from publishers Pendragon Press. Author Liz Williams provides the introduction, and some very nice blurbs are coming in! For your information and edification:
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 would take all of Killarney's resources to survive,
when heaven itself may be threatened, and God herself may be walking the
earth...
An Occupation of Angels is a taut, high-octane thriller in the tradition of
Adam Hall's Quiller novels, and a meditation on God and religion that
echoes both Philip Pullman's Northern Lights and Tim Powers'
Declare. This first novella from the winner of the Clarke-Bradbury Prize
is a hallucinatory trip that is guaranteed to get you high... as high as
angels.
Quotes:
"A novella of blistering, ballistic energy and ferocious cleverness. A
nonstop fantasy spy adventure of the kind that John le Carré might write, if
he ingested a few strange, strong drugs first. Fans of Tim Powers should
love this. Fans of high-class supernatural action drama should love this.
Fans of ballsy, gun-toting heroines should love this. In fact, everyone
should love this."
- James Lovegrove
Note that this web site will be undergoing a face-lift soon. A separate page for An Occupation of Angels will follow.
May 22nd, 2005
Totally forgot, but some pictures from the reading of There Will Be Time are available over at WoW.
May 21st, 2005
"The Fire Sermon" has been published in volume II of The Minotaur in Pamploma, a chapbook anthology edited by Neil Ayres. Available from Project Pulp, or directly from D-Press.
May 8th, 2005
"The Gimatria of Pi" is now online at Infinity Plus! And "Family Ties" was published in Israel as "Kesher Mishpachti" - it was translated by Lola Brown and is available online at ISF.
New computer arrived and broadband coming this Wednesday - as does the annual Arthur C. Clarke Award ceremony. I'm looking forward to both.
May 2nd, 2005
My story "Crucifixation" will appear in issue 2 of Apex Digest. And a story I translated from Hebrew, Nir Yaniv's "Yours Shall She Be", has just been published online at Lenox Avenue, so check it out!
April 24th, 2005
My novelette, "The Dope Fiend", has just been published in the Israeli magazine Chalomot Be'aspamia. It gets pride of place on the cover, which also illustrates the story. The Hebrew title is "Mischak Machur" and it was translated by Vered Tuchterman. This is the third in the "The Rabbi, The Rat and the Tzaddik" stories, which have proven popular in Israel.
Also received my copy of Night To Dawn #7 which contains my story "Canopied in Darkness", first published online in Simulacrum.
April 14th, 2005
My novella An Occupation of Angels will be published in paperback by Pendragon Press in late 2005 or early 2006. It's a dark fantasy/sf alternate-Cold War spy thriller - which is a bit of a mouthful! Introduction and cover artwork to be announced.
I also just sold "The Life We Don't See" to Dawn Sky for a June publication.
April 7th, 2005
My story "Momentos Robados" will appear in issue #8 (June) of Leafing Through.
April 5th, 2005
This was quick! The first review of Chizine #24, at Tangent Online:
"Alienation and Love in the Hebrew Alphabet" by Lavie Tidhar is reminiscent of Tim Pratt’s story, "Annabelle’s Alphabet" (which originally appeared in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Oct. 2001). Tidhar's story is structured around related scenes using the Hebrew alphabet as scene breaks. The plot features an alien who befriends a little girl forced to move to a strange land with her mother. At first the structure will seem arbitrary, but the theme of love and alienation brings everything together at the end. Overall, this was not only a huge success as a story, but the best one in the issue.
April 3rd, 2005
The first issue of InterNOVA - The Magazine of International Science Fiction - has just been published!
The magazine is perfect-bound with a glossy colour cover a cover by Danial Gonzalés (Argentina) and an introduction by Brian W. Aldiss (Great Britain). It contains the following stories and authors:
Visit InterNOVA's web site for more information!
April 1st, 2005
Has it really been a month since my last update? March was quiet, though it did pick up steam towards the end. The big news for April is that my story "Alienation and Love in the Hebrew Alphabet" has just been published on Chizine!
Also published recently was "Thrilling Wonder Stories #52: The Invasion of the Zog", in the first issue of fantastic new magazine Apex Digest. Check it out.
I just sold "The Life We Don't See", a rare Hebrew story, to Greek weekly magazine "9". It's my third story to appear in "9", and the first to be spread over two issues. I also sold novelette "The Dope Fiend" to Israeli magazine Chalomot Be'aspamia.
My story "The Fire Sermon" is due to appear soon in Neil Ayres' anthology The Minotaur in Pamplona, which will be a special 2-chapbook set. More details soon, I hope.
My first review for Interzone has just appeared! And my contributor copies of Velvet Heat, a very nice erotic poetry anthology, have just arrived.
March 2nd, 2005
My article "2004: The UK Small Press in Review" is now online at the Internet Review of Science Fiction.
My poem "a coolness after heat" has just been published in The International Journal of Erotica #6.
February 25th, 2005
"Tokolosh" is now online at WoW.
February 18th, 2005
News today that "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" and "The Wound Dresser" - plus the article on Chinese SF - will appear in the Portuguese magazine Dragão Quântico (Quantum Dragon), edited by Rogério Ribeiro. With the Greek translation of Spiders also coming out this year this will make it the fifth translation of the story.
February 11th, 2005
"Prophets of the City" is now available in Fantasque 2004.
February 1st, 2005
"Sub Genre Spotlight: Steampunk" is now on at The Internet Review of Science Fiction!
January 27th, 2005
"The Gimatria of Pi" will be reprinted online at Infinity Plus. And "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" will appear in the Greek magazine The Dramaturges of Yann. Both around April.
January 19th, 2005
My Hebrew story "Reshimot Me'Eropa" (Notes from Europa) has just been published at the Israeli SF&F Society's web site.
January 18th, 2005
My story "The Left Wing of the Dove" will be published in Leafing Through #4 in February.
January 14th, 2005
My story "The Secret Protocols of the Elders of Zion" will be published in Quercus-SF - online, and in the subsequent anthology The West Pier Gazette and Other Stories, edited by Paul Brazier.
January 7th, 2005
News just in that my story "Alienation and Love in the Hebrew Alphabet" will be published this year in Chizine. My first professional sale (by SFWA standards) and a good way to start the new year...
2004 News
December 22nd, 2004
My article on the Israeli convention Icon 2004 has just appeared in The Internet Review of Science Fiction, and it's the fourth article of mine to be published there. I like IROSF.
This article is very different to the small report/summary that appeared in Locus in November.
I also hear "Prophets of the City" has just been published in Fantasque, but haven't yet seen it. I wrote it at 18, I think, then a while back I re-read it, revised it a little and sent it off and it was accepted. I'm glad it found a home.
December 21st, 2004
I got a nice write-up and a short interview (alongside Guy Gavriel Kay, no less) in Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which was very nice indeed. It can be read (in Hebrew) in the online edition.
Terry Gates-Grimwood has written a superbly nice review of my play, There Will Be Time, available here. I keep meaning to write another... and hoping this one might get staged at some point.
...and I'm no longer a student. Still poor, but no longer a student.
December 14th, 2004
I mentioned an article in Locus. "Israel: Icon 2004" was published in the November issue. It was printed - by mistake - under the byline of Israeli editor Rani Graf. Locus will hopefully publish a correction in a future issue.
Things to check out: Apex Digest. Leafing Through. There Will Be Time.
December 5th, 2004
I've recently translated into English a short story by Israeli author Nir Yaniv: "Recreating Rita" is now available online at Whispers of Wickedness.
November 29th, 2004
You can now purchase There Will Be Time on Shocklines.
November 27th, 2004
My story "Canopied in Darkness" will be reprinted in Night To Dawn magazine, issue 7.
November 24th, 2004
My story "Thrilling Wonder Stories #52: The Invasion of the Zog", will feature in Apex Digest volume one, scheduled for March 2005. Meanwhile, "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" has been published in China in Kings of SF, and also in the European Space Agency's anthology Tales of Innovation and Imagination: Selected Stories from the 2003 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition, both in large format paperback and as a free-for-download PDF file. The anthology features a foreward by Brian Aldiss. Download it directly by clicking here. My poem "Conspiracy Theory" appeared in Moist magazine. And it seems I forgot to mention that "THIS POEM IS FOR SALE" is available online at the Eggplant Library.
November 11th, 2004
There Will be Time is out! This is a short one-act play, illustrated by John Keates, and it has just been published by D-Press as a very handsome chapbook. Order directly from D-Press or from Project Pulp. The blurb says:
Quantum mechanics, chaos theory, and the nature of time are viewed with a child's ironic gaze in this short one act play by Lavie Tidhar. Two brothers, Lucius and Decius, live in what may be a dream and might be the periphery of a black hole. Argumentative and articulate, they bicker over the nature of time, death, and play, draw in crayons and play with dice, and must finally face the possibility of growing up. The chapbook is illustrated by John Keates, who perfectly captures the dream-like logic that permeates the play.
November 5th, 2004
I have a couple of articles forthcoming in The Internet Review of Science Fiction, on Steampunk and on Icon, the Israeli SF festival. I also have a piece in the November Locus on Icon. And "The Pattern Makers of Zanzibar" will be out in a few days in Leafing Through, a new British e-zine. I'm working on a lot of other things at the moment, which might explain the relative quietness - several new projects which are taking up quite a lot of time, but which are very exciting indeed.
October 13th, 2004
I'm back. This is only a quick update - the SF festival in Israel (yes, it's a festival, not a convention. City guidelines, apparently) was excellent, but since I plan on publishing something about it soon, I'll save my wuffle for that. I recieved all my copies of the magnificent Chalomot Be'aspamia magazine and even got paid - a most enjoyable thing - the lecture went very well, or so I hope, I was interviewed for a national paper, and it was a pleasure to put faces to some of the names.
I came back to the welcome news that my story "Cell" was published in Greece recently in the excellent "9" magazine, my second sale there, to news that a couple of publications I'm in are delayed but still on track, and to an e-mail from my Chinese translator. I have some big news with regards to China, but I won't go into details just yet - don't want to jinx it, I guess. Also, my "Malarial Nights, Blood-Poisoned Days" has just been published by The Dream People online. It's about being sick with malaria, an experience I don't really recommend. I had it five times while I was in Africa.
and finally, I've added two photos to the About page, from Nantes last year. If I get any Icon ones, I'll post those too.
September 26th, 2004
This is probably my last update before I go to Israel. As a nice welcome, my story "Revolution Time" will be published in the Israeli magazine Chalomot Be'aspamia (issue 12) and is also available online on the Israeli SF/F Society's website.
There's one big piece of news that is still waiting for final confirmation. Otherwise, I recieved my copy of Dark Lurkers, which looks great, and artist John Keates has delivered the illustrations for my forthcoming chapbook play, There Will Be Time, so I hope it will become available soon.
September 10th, 2004
News that my story "The Pattern Makers of Zanzibar" will be published in Leafing Through, a new UK electronic magazine, in November, and also that my story "Pro Patria Mori" will be in issue #6 of The Book of Dark Wisdom, but only next summer. A nice start to the month, all in all.
Also recieved my copy of the Chinese Fantasy World today - a lovely publication, and a great illustration for the story by Zhang Xiaoyu. And had a new Hebrew story published, "Harpatkaot Ish Haetz Beir Hakirkas" ("The Adventures of the Wood Man in Circus Town") online at the Israeli magazine The Orc.
Finally, my poem "Conspiracy Theory" is in the new issue of Moist Magazine.
September 1st, 2004
"Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" has just been published in the Chinese Kings of SF magazine. I'll post more details when I have them.
"Family Ties" has just been published in Thirteen Magazine, vol. 1 issue 8 (August).
In other news, tickets for my lecture at Icon, the Israeli SF convention, are going fast. There are 80 seats, as I understand it, and about 17 left at the moment. Bit stressful, but I'm sure it will be fine...
August 19th, 2004
I can now confirm that "The Jerusalem Theatre" has been published in the Chinese magazine Fantasy World, August, as "Yelusaleng yekongde huoguang" (lit: Firelight in the Jerusalem Night Sky), translated by Wang Rongsheng and illustrated by Zhang Xiaoyu. There's a scan of the cover image on the fiction page. Apparently I share the distinction (with Stephen King) of being a non-Chinese author published there. Haven't actually seen a copy yet.
August 18th, 2004
Pleased to say my story "Post-Human Pat" has just been published online at Abyss & Apex!
August 12th, 2004
Back from Paris to news my story "The Ballerina" has just been published in a Hebrew translation at ISF, and that an original Hebrew story, "Lei'lot Akrab Va'seter" [Nights of Scorpion and Mystery], has been published in Bli Panika. With another original Hebrew story coming soon in another magazine this will be, I suspect, the last one for a while as I get on with other writings. More information on the new Hebrew Page.
August 5th, 2004
My story "The Gimatria of Pi" is now up at The Fortean Bureau, so take a look.
Heard my first story was recently published in China in Fantasy World magazine, not sure yet which one but probably "The Jerusalem Theatre". It has thirteen footnotes, apparently. It is expected to be followed by several others, including "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" in Kings of SF. More on that when I have more information.
I can also confirm I will be in Israel in October and will attend Icon, the annual Israeli SF convention. I will be giving a talk on writing Israeli fantasy, and will also attend a panel of Israeli writers - not 100% sure about times yet, but the dates are 3-6 October (I think). I'll post more information closer to the event - off to Paris in the meanwhile for a few days for some Moules Marinière and some vin rouge...
July 24th, 2004
"The Breeding Grounds" is now up on Inifnity Plus!
July 20th, 2004
Quiet month, and also the strange, muggy summer in London makes simple tasks more difficult to do... Not sure what I've missed out and what I need to put in.
First off, my poem "some notes towards a virgin/whore dichotomy" has just been published in volume #1 of Mouseion Magazine, a new UK publication which is very nice indeed.
The big news is that my one act play, "There Will Be Time", will be published as a chapbook by D-Press. A very talented young artist I met recently, John Keates, is doing the cover and internal illustrations.
My story "Cell" has just been published in Continuum Science Fiction #2, a very handsome SF mag.
I've also had some more Hebrew publications, to the extent that I now have a Hebrew Page for Israeli visitors. I've been doing a little bit of fiction writing in Hebrew recently - we'll see if these will also appear in English at some point.
And I think that's it. July has been quiet, and though there are a couple of potentially big news in the pipeline, that's where they will have to remain for the time being.
June 22nd, 2004
Busy month for things to put on the wall: recieved my two certificates of Honorable Mentions from Writers of the Future, followed by one from SFReader.com. Then, this morning, news and plaques that both my story "Father can you see me" and my novella "An Occupation of Angels" have won first place in the Conduit XIV contest.
Also, news that "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" has been translated into Chinese and will appear there soon - the fourth language the story will appear in.
June 6th, 2004
The big news is that Michael Marshall Smith: The Annotated Bibliography is out! It is available in a limited edition of 200 hardcover copies signed by Mike, and 300 paperbacks that are unsigned. To order, visit PS Publishing.
My review of Tom Disch's excellent non-fiction book, The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of, is now up at The Internet Review of Science Fiction.
Meanwhile, I have had stories accepted for Abyss & Apex and Thirteen Magazine, while two stories have just appeared, almost back-to-back, in Israel's Chalomot Beaspamia Magazine - more on this on the fiction page. I also sold a poem to Neon Highway.
May 8th, 2004
"Prophets of the City" was accepted for the Fantasque anthology, and "Ghost" was accepted for the Dark Sins and Desires Unveiled anthology (from Underground Publishing). In addition, three poems, "the illusion of feeling", "The Scent of Basil", and another, all previously published by the International Journal of Erotica, will be reprinted in a new erotic poetry anthology edited by Emilie Paris and Scott McMorrow.
Off to the Arthur C. Clarke Award ceremony on Wednesday and meanwhile busy, busy...
April 25h, 2004
My article on Chinese SF, previously published in Foundation, is now available in shortened form on the excellent Concatenation web site.
And my story "Alienation and Love in the Hebrew Alphabet" has just been published in Israel in the Tenth Dimension magazine, translated by Toni Schvekher.
April 17th, 2004
Not sure what's going on, exactly, April being a pretty hectic month for me, but I will try to make sense of things.
So. First off, Paul Melniczek's Dark Lurkers anthology is now available as an e-book, with a paperback edition to follow in a couple of months. My poems "The Children's Crusade" and "A Second Gulf War" appeared in Dreamcatcher #13, a lovely, perfect-bound UK poetry magazine, and my story "Lake of Stars" appeared in Jupiter SF #4 with a nice illustration by Nicholas Waller. A short story, "There was a man who had AIs in his eyes", was also published in Lunatic Chameleon #3. Finally, "Demon Dreams" was accepted for The Blackest Death Volume II anthology, which will be a trade paperback this time. There are a few more things in the pipeline, but I think this is enough for now.
March 22nd, 2004
March has turned out into a very busy month, and this weekend ends with one fiction and two non-fiction news pieces, starting with the fact that "Michael Marshall Smith: The Annotated Bibliography" is now available for pre-order from PS Publishing, with an April release date confirmed. This book has taken about four years to produce, undergoing many changes, and to be this close to actually seeing it in print is, well, quite a relief... I will have a lot more to say when it is actually out.
My article "2003: The UK Small-Press in Review" is now online at The Internet Review of Science Fiction, which I'm also very, very pleased about. I love the stuff being done in the UK, I've cajoled and threatened my way into numerous review copies, contributed the occassional story to publications, had drinks liberally bought for me, and it's nice to be able to take a look at what's been going on and tell other people about it. Check it out.
Fiction-wise, news came in on Saturday that my story "The Heist" has been accepted for publication by UK magazine Horror Express, which looks very nice indeed. I also recieved the Hebrew translation of the story recently, and it will be in issue #10 of the wonderful Chalomot Be'aspamia magazine. Together with "Transylvanian Mission", which I just sold to the Dark Lurkers anthology, it forms a loose series about a sort of supernatural Jewish underworld... Now I need to write the other two stories.
March 14th, 2004
A tiny new story, "Dogs", has just been published online at Whispers of Wickedness (click to access story).
But the big news is that Infinity Plus will reprint my story "The Breeding Grounds", first published in issue #1 of Jupiter SF! The story will be up around June, or thereabouts.
March 10th, 2004
"There was a Man who had AIs in his Eyes" was just published in Lunatic Chameleon #3. And "The Assassin" has just been accepted for the March issue of the new UK magazine Thirteen.
March 9th, 2004
My story "Transylvanian Mission" will appear in the anthology Dark Lurkers, edited by Paul Melniczek. It was a bit of a surprise sale - and the anthology seems about ready to be released. I also sold a second article to the Internet Review of Science Fiction, which should be up at the end of March.
March 1st, 2004
I forgot to mention earlier that my story "Children of the Revolution" was an Honorable Mention in the recent SFReader.com Fiction Contest. Meanwhile, another story appeared in a Hebrew translation - "Father can you see me", which is now online at ISF.
February 21st, 2004
No sales to report, but a few of stories have recently come out. "In Search of Livingstone", the first Samantha Elliott mystery (in a projected series) has recieved a UK publication in Thriller UK, a nice crime magazine.
"Through a Peepshow of Flame" just appeared in the latest Scared Naked Magazine, and "The Wound Dresser" just appeared in a Hebrew translation in Chalomot Be'asmpamia - the English-language appearance will be in Underworlds #4 some time in the future...
"Crucifixation", meanwhile, recieved its second translation, this time into Hebrew, and has appeared in the excellent Israeli webzine Bli-Panika, edited by Rami Shalheveth, and with an excellent translation by Ben Suissa. It is available here. The same 'zine also reprinted my Hebrew translation of Michael Marshall Smith's short story "Everybody Goes", here.
Finally, my flash story "Signs" was published in the PDF Fragment Magazine.
January 28th, 2004
A quiet month... Nevertheless, a couple of my poems, "Lorca never had it this good" and "Zanzibar" have just appeared in the UK poetry magazine Cadenza (link on the right).
And my article, "The Baha'i and Science Fiction", is the feature article in the debut issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction. The article is available here - you need to register to read it, but registration is free for the next six months.
Finally, and staying with non-fiction, it is now possible to pre-order my "Michael Marshall Smith: An Annotated Bibliography" (published by PS Publishing soon!) from Cold Tonnage Books. click here for the hardcover, or here for the paperback.
January 7th, 2004
The new year started the best way a year can start - I was paid for two stories. A new one is currently up at The Fortean Bureau, The Curious Case of the Micro-Cynicon, while "The Terrible Transformation of the Royal Borough of Kingston-Upon-Thames" has just been published in Jupiter SF #3. I am pleased to share the ToC with Israeli SF writer Guy Hasson.
I can also finally reveal that I had a story in Des Lewis' Nemonymous #3 - "The Ballerina", which will be given an Honorable Mention by Ellen Datlow in the next Year's Best Fantasy & Horror! And Wicked Hollow magazine called the story a "wonderfully concise fantasy", which was very, very nice indeed.
Also, my story "The Jerusalem Theatre" (which I'm currently working on with the Chinese translator) has been recommended at the Preditors and Editors Readers' Poll for best horror story. If you've read it and like to vote for it, click here, but to be honest, just the fact someone liked it enough to recommend it is plenty.
I also have a flash story, "Signs" coming up in Fragment Magazine #2.
2003 news
December 19th, 2003
My story "Covenant" recieved an Honorable Mention from the L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future competition.
My story "The Jerusalem Theatre" has been translated into Chinese, and will appear in Fantasy World, a slick fantasy magazine from the powerhouse that is Science Fiction World, in the beginning of 2004.
December 15th, 2003
I have recently started writing an irregular Hebrew column for the Israeli SF&F news portal ISF. A mixture of news, information and gossip, it aims to cover events in London - or wherever else I end up. I've already done two pieces, on the Utopiales festival, and on the BFS open night in December. For a list of the articles (again, in Hebrew) click here.
Things that have come out recently include The International Journal of Erotica volume two, with a couple of poems of mine, and my article on Chinese SF, which has just come out in Foundation #89. I've updated the non-fiction page with hopefully more useful content.
Also recieved in the post the page proofs for my "Michael Marshall Smith: An Annotated Bibliography", which has been a long time project indeed. It will be published by PS Publishing in 2004 as a limited edition, and looks absolutely fantastic.
November 19th, 2003
I forgot to mention this, but I recently found out that "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" has been chosen by the MGM Sci-Fi Newsletter as their story of the month for October. Cool!
I also recieved the Spanish translation of the story, which appeared in Quo Magazine in Spain, and which looks very good indeed. It is the only story featured in that issue.
November 18th, 2003
Returned from France. Madness. Highlights: signing books between Tim Powers and James Blaylock(!). Was interviewed at length for the German-language television programme Science Ohne Fiction, broadcast on 3sat (full details of the programme are available here.). Discovered French Steampunk.
In the meantime, a couple of stories have gone up online: "Canopied in Darkness" up on Lynne Jamneck's new PDF e-zine Simulacrum, the other, "Keyboard Shortcuts", on the Whispers of Wickedness website (click for story). Both flash stories. WoW also published my poem "Rosh Hashana 1", a translation into English from my 1998 Hebrew poetry collection. It is available here.
I also came back to the news my story "The Curious History of the Micro-Cynicon" will be published in a future issue of The Fortean Bureau.
And a very quick story sale to the wonderful William P. Simmons at Underworlds Magazine - my story "Depopulator" is scheduled for issue #5.
And finally, "Lake of Stars", will be in issue #4 of Jupiter SF...
So, another good month, and France was a wonderful experience - first time for me signing books (and I'd like to thanks CYRIL and ALICE who are the very first people to ever approach me in a bar asking for an autograph - a wonderful, if bizarre, experience. Your names will always be in my memory). First time to do a panel - one of the Utopiae anthology, one on Steampunk. Met lots of great people, drank lots of champaign, learned a lot about science fiction outside of the English-speaking world, and hopefully will sell a couple more stories to France soon...
October 23rd, 2003
I have just recieved my contributor copies of "9", the Greek magazine which contains my story "Revolution Time". "9" is a weekend Supplement of the large-circulation Greek newspaper ELEFTHEROTYPIA. You can see the cover on the short fiction page. The cover and table of contents for the French anthology Utopiae 2003 was also recently released (click on picture, right).
Three anthologies with my stories in them are just about to be released. These are The Blackest Death Volume 1 (best-seller on Shocklines' pre-order list!), DeathGrip: Legacy of Terror, and Wicked Little Girls. Follow the links to pre-order: cover images on the right. Author d.g.k Goldberg very kindly said recently about my contribution to DeathGrip that "The Jerusalem Theatre alone is worth the price of the book." - Thanks!
And in other news. My story "Canopied in Darkness" will appear in the first issue of the new e-zine Simulacrum, edited by the talented Lynne Jamneck. It will possibly be followed by an interview in issue 2.
My story "Cell" has been accepted for publication in the new SF magazine Continuum SF, slated for a summer 2004 release.
My extract from the imaginary The Encyclopaedia of Sentient Gems, Vol. IX, "Diamond Rats", is now available on-line at the Eggplant Literary Productions Library, who will also be publishing my poem "THIS POEM IS FOR SALE" at a later date.
Finally, my second contribution to The House of 87 Cabinets, Cabinet #69, was recently added to the group narrative and can be read here.
October 6th, 2003
Back from Israel, with the news that my poems "Lorca never had it this good" and "Zanzibar" will be published in a future issue of Cadenza Magazine in the UK, and that issue #2 of Jupiter SF, with my poem "The Old Masters", is now available.
And my story "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" is now available online - together with the runner-ups in the Clarke-Bradbury competition - here.
Finally, I have a new message board up at Black Death Books - check it out and feel free to leave a message.
September 21, 2003
My poems "At the Deep End" and "The Scent of Basil" will appear in issue 2 of The International Journal of Erotica soon. I have also recieved the Hebrew translation of "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" that will be appearing soon. I have had several acceptances for Hebrew translations recently, and will post new information when I have it.
I have also recieved my invitation to the 2003 Utopiales international SF festival in Nantes, France. The festival takes place between the 7-11 November, and the list of guests is truly impressive, with Terry Pratchett and Tim Powers heading a list that includes myself somewhere at the bottom... Some 25,000 people are expected to attend.
September 03, 2003
The European Space Agency has officially announced the winners of the Clarke-Bradbury competition on their web site here. Check out the very cool illustration!
And news that my flash story "Diamond Rats" will appear soon(ish) at the Eggplant Library, a great collection of extracts from imaginary books.
August 30th, 2003
End of the month, with the sad news that my story "The Wound Dresser" will not be appearing in the Vivisections II anthology as it has now been withdrawn from the publishers. However, it has been picked up instead for Prime Books' Underworlds magazine, and should appear in issue 4.
Apart from that, my modest contribution to the Jeff VanderMeer-edited project, The House with 87 Cabinets, is now added to the group narrative - it's cabinet #39, if you were wondering, and the entire collection of stories can be read here.
August 14th, 2003
My Clarke-Bradbury winning story "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs" has been picked up for publication in the Spanish magazine Quo, and in the Israeli magazine Chalomot Be'aspamia, both slated for October.
My poem "Old Masters" will be published in issue #2 of Jupiter SF, a rare genre-related piece, and two other poems, "The Children's Crusade" and "A Second Gulf War", will be published in a future issue of Dream Catcher.
August 5th, 2003
Some major news!
First, the site is finally up, as you can see. It contains up-to-date information about my short stories, poetry and non-fiction publications, and should be updated regularly. To get in touch with me, either e-mail me or visit my newly-formed message board.
Second, I have just been told I am the winner of this year's Clarke Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition! The competition is sponsored by the European Space Agency, and is named in honour of (and with the blessing of) Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury. My winning story, "Temporal Spiders, Spatial Webs", will appear in the accompanying anthology and elsewhere, with at least one European magazine already showing interest in publishing the story in translation.
Today I also recieved my contributor copy of The International Journal of Erotica, containing two poems of mine. It is a handsome publication. You can find out more about my poetry in the Poetry section.
I also posted the contract for the The Blackest Death Volume One anthology, for my story "Happy Days with Dick and Jane". More about that in the Short Fiction section.
Finally, my recently-bought article about vampires, androids, pornography and the Enlightenment, "Androids and Other Undead: The Vampire as a Product of the Enlightenment", is now available online, and you can read it here.