Our Friends: The Machines

Israeli writer Nir Yaniv has created a charming stop-motion video to accompany the release of his new English-language short story collection, The Love Machine & Other Contraptions.

Nir Yaniv’s debut English-language collection released

Israeli author Nir Yaniv’s debut English-language collection has been released by Keith Brooke’s Infinity Plus imprint. The Love Machine & Other Contraptions is available in Kindle and paperback formats. Yaniv is a film-maker, musician and author based in Tel Aviv. With World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar he co-wrote 2009 novel, The Tel Aviv Dossier....

Short Story Highlight: “Undercity” by Nir Yaniv, at Apex Magazine

Apex Magazine have just published Israeli author Nir Yaniv's story, Undercity. The story was published in the exclusive pre-order edition of The Apex Book of World SF 2 but will not be available in the regular edition. You can, however, read it for free online! That day, the complacent city received three warnings. No one bothered to...

Pre-Order The Apex Book of World SF 2, Get Bonus Content, Early Delivery!

In order to promote the forthcoming release of The Apex Book of World SF 2, we've decided to offer a very special edition to anyone pre-ordering the paperback edition. While the trade edition is scheduled for August, anyone ordering a copy by April 30th will receive their copy in May (three months early!) and with unique bonus...

Tuesday Fiction: “The Word of God” by Nir Yaniv

Our fiction feature this week is Israeli author Nir Yaniv's "The Word of God"! The Word of God By Nir Yaniv Translated from the Hebrew by Lavie Tidhar The beginning of the end was very simple, but no one suspected it. * Ofer searched through his pockets like a man possessed. 'A pen!' he said....

MOVIE WEEK AT THE WSNB!

It's movie week here on the World SF Blog - we'll be running trailers and whole genre short films from around the world this week. Tuesday we'll have the next installment in Joyce Chng's serial, The Basics of Flight. But let's start the week! First up we have something of a unique proposition: the Israeli short horror...

Interview with Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv

I interviewed Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv on their novel, The Tel Aviv Dossier, over at SF Signal. Here's an excerpt: What made you decide to set the story in Tel Aviv? What is it about that city that you find interesting? LT: We couldn't pass up the opportunity to entirely destroy it! I think...

Monday Original Content: Dagon Magazine and an Interview with Roberto Mendes

Dagon is a new Portuguese magazine, edited by Roberto Mendes and dedicated to showcasing both Portuguese and international speculative fiction. The first issue contains stories from Luís Filipe Silva, João Barreiros and Carla Ribeiro, and articles by Pedro Ventura and Nuno Fonseca. It also publishes Nir Yaniv's story, "Cinderers" from The Apex Book of World SF,...

Short Story Highlight: “The Believers” by Nir Yaniv (Chizine)

Our second short fiction highlight for the year - the latest issue of online magazine Chizine has a story by Israeli writer Nir Yaniv: The Believers (translated from the Hebrew by the author). The old woman in the grocery store stares at the floor and doesn't look up. She examines the date printed on a...

New Review for The Apex Book of World SF

Responding in part to Jetse de Vries "Should SF Die?" essay, Val's Random Comments Blog responds, including a long review of The Apex Book of World SF - calling Nir Yaniv's Cinderers "the collection's most disturbing story by far" and Kristin Mandigma's Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-Realist Aswang "absolutely hilarious". One argument in...