About the Author

Lavie Tidhar is the author of the BSFA Award nominated novel Osama (2011), and of the steampunk Bookman Histories trilogy, comprising The Bookman (2010), Camera Obscura (2011), and The Great Game (2012). His other works include the linked story collection HebrewPunk (2007), novellas An Occupation of Angels (2005), Cloud Permutations (2010), Jesus & the Eightfold Path (2011), and Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God (2011). He is also the author of the picture book Going to the Moon (2012). He edited the first volume of this anthology series, The Apex Book of World SF (2009) and maintains the World SF Blog at worldsf.wordpress.com, for which he was nominated for a World Fantasy Award.