John W. Campbell Award winner CENTRAL STATION by Lavie Tidhar is a Kindle Daily Deal for Wednesday, July 3.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

• 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner
  
• 2018 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award Winner
  
• 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award, Shortlist
  
• 2016 British Science Fiction Award, Longlist
  
• 2017 Geffen Award nominee, Best Translated Science Fiction Book
  
• NPR Best Books of 2016
  
• Amazon Featured Monthly Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
  
• Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016
  
• 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List
  
• Winner, 2016 British Science Fiction Award Best Cover Illustration – Sarah Anne Langton
  
• Nomination, Chesley Award, Best Cover Illustration – Sarah Anne Langton
  
• 2017 British Fantasy Society – Shortlist for Best Artist – Sarah Anne Langton

“Tidhar scatters brilliant ideas like pennies on the sidewalk.”
—NPR Books

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper.

When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik—a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.

Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation—a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness—are just the beginning of irrevocable change.

At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive … and even evolve.

• An NPR Books Best Book of 2016
  
• A Tor.com Best Book of 2016
  
• An io9 SF, Fantasy, and Horror Book That Will Blow Your Mind
  
• An Amazon Featured Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book
  
• A Publishers Weekly Staff Pick
  
• A Bookskill Recommended Book
  
• An SF Bluestocking Best of 2016
  
• A Kirkus 2016 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy pick
  
• A Tor.com Five Mosaic Novels You Should Read
  
• Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016
  
• A UK Guardian Best SF & Fantasy Book of 2016
  
• Best Science Fiction Books Top 10 of 2016
  
• Featured review on the Reading Envy podcast
  
• Featured Interview in the Jewish Telegraph

[STAR] “World Fantasy Award–winner Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming) magnificently blends literary and speculative elements in this streetwise mosaic novel set under the towering titular spaceport. In a future border town formed between Israeli Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa, cyborg ex-soldiers deliver illicit drugs for psychic vampires, and robot priests give sermons and conduct circumcisions. The Chong family struggles to save patriarch Vlad, lost in the inescapable memory stream they all share, thanks to his father’s hack of the Conversation, the collective unconscious. New children, born from back-alley genetic engineering, begin to experience actual and virtual reality simultaneously. Family and faith bring them all back and sustain them. Tidhar gleefully mixes classic SF concepts with prose styles and concepts that recall the best of world literature. The byways of Central Station ring with dusty life, like the bruising, bustling Cairo streets depicted by Naguib Mahfouz. Characters wrestle with problems of identity forged under systems of oppression, much as displaced Easterners and Westerners do in the novels of Orhan Pamuk. And yet this is unmistakably SF. Readers of all persuasions will be entranced.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

[STAR] “… a fascinating future glimpsed through the lens of a tight-knit community. Verdict: Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming;The Violent Century) changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells.”
—Library Journal, starred review

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton