![]() The stuff I liked: Milday De Winter was a much more compelling protagonist than Orphan from the first book and kicked multiple truckloads of ass. While I liked it, I don't think it was anywhere near as good as The Bookman. Honestly, I have mixed feelings about this one. De Winter follows a trail of clues and battles other agents of The Council as she tries to piece together what happened. As with the first book, Les Lizardes are in the background the entire time. In this sequel to The Bookman, Lavie Tidhar crafts a steampunk noir tale with many wrinkles. Can de Winter figure out who killed the man and still retain her sanity? Milady de Winter investigates and uncovers a fiendish plot. 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).Ī man is found dead in a locked room on the Rue Morgue, the mysterious object he was transporting cut from his abdomen. 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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