NEOM

Lavie Tidhar's NEOM continues its assault on the best of 2022 lists Read more...

"Wow! What a gut punch! This is set in the same zeitgeist as CENTRAL STATION, of which I absolutely adored for not just its unabashed hard-SF nature, its robots, its deserts, it's Tel Aviv atmosphere and post-dystopian nightmare, and its DEEP, deep worldbuilding. I can't overstate the last enough. It's RICH. And NEOM is, too. Overflowing with imagination, references to fascinating events and people (mostly robots), and places all over the Solar System. What is most surprising is how easy it is to fall into. It never overwhelms us. -- My rating: 5 of 5 stars" —Bradley Horner "This was the weirdest book I think have ever read, and I loved every minute of it. The weird and strangeness on top of the mystery of what exactly was going on kept me enraptured to the very end." Into the Heart Wyld review of THE ESCAPEMENT “Lavie Tidhar's Neom is a stunning return to his world of Central Station, twinning the fates of humans and robots alike at a futuristic city on the edge of the Red Sea.” —Green Man Review “This was superb and I'm in awe of Tidhar's vision. He's conjured up a futuristic city that feels simultaneously ultramodern and also run down. The rich histories of the region and its cultures are seamlessly interwoven into the fabric of this fully-realized world.” —The Speculative Shelf “This is Tidhar at his best: the crazily proliferating imagination, the textures, the ideas, the dazzling storytelling. A brilliant portrait of community and its possibilities.” —Adam Roberts, author of Purgatory Mount “Neom is a treasure, and Tidhar says that there are so many more stories from this complicated world. Every new one is a compelling chapter in this future history that reflects so much about who we are and the basic things we yearn for.” —SciFi Mind “Yet again, Lavie Tidhar's future world of Neom is exciting and distinctive, his characters complex and fascinating, and his themes powerful and thought-provoking. He is the best sort of science fiction.” —Kij Johnson, author of The River Bank “Always expect the unexpected with Lavie Tidhar, and this welcome return to the sprawling space-operatic world of Central Station delivers oodles of poetry, action, memorable characters, wonderfully bizarre landscapes and wild imagination. No two books by Tidhar are ever the same, but each is a revelation.” —Maxim Jakubowski, author of The Piper's Dance “Neom is a real place. A completely batshit crazy place. Nonetheless, Lavie Tidhar, standing on the shoulders of Vance, Smith, and Ballard and others, imagines stories set in that place, a city in a wasteland near the Gulf of Suez, in a future filled with robots and AI and terrorartists and young boys and talking jackals and a wonderful, terrible solar system packed with life.” —Jonathan Strahan “Vivid and techno-mythological, Neom infects you with something special that transcends all the incidents and terrors—a shimmering current of guarded optimism.” —David Brin, author of Existence, Earth and The Postman “Lavie Tidhar's Neom is a deliciously inventive wild ride through a future Middle East full of unexpected wonders” —Benjamin Rosenbaum, author of The Unraveling

“... self-fulfillment and one robot's quest to reunite with a lost love. (...) Tidhar offers a heartfelt exploration of artificially intelligent beings' struggles to find existential meaning while being restrained by both coding and form. Fans of literary sci-fi are sure to be enchanted by the imaginative worldbuilding and tenderly wrought characters.”