The accolades keep rolling in for Lavie Tidhar’s beautifully written UNHOLY LAND.

Both NPR and LIBRARY JOURNAL include the book among their best books of 2018.

NPR:

It’s the kind of smart, intertextual science fiction that would make Philip K. Dick giddy.

LIBRARY JOURNAL:

Recalling China Miéville’s The City and the City, Tidhar’s narrative resonates with the dilemmas of modern Israel without devolving to mere metaphor. 

Photo: Kevin Nixon. © Future Publishing 2013

At FANTASY LITERATURE, Bill Capossere declares the title is gong on his Best of 2018 list.

I read UNHOLY LAND straight through in one sitting, blowing off work, family, and the first few minutes of dinner to do so. And had I not finished I most likely would have just skipped dinner entire until I did. For such a short book — under 300 pages — Tidhar crams in a world (worlds) of thoughtfulness, suspense, imagery, and beautiful prose. Highly recommended.

UNHOLY LAND makes a different type of list at BOOK RIOT with Michelle Anne Schingler’s 8 Nights of Jewish Books: A Suggested Hanukkah Reading (and Gifting!) List.

A pulp writer transgresses the barriers between realities in Tidhar’s latest science fiction wonder, which finds agents who can skip between universes chasing the man who may be instrumental to a multiverse rift—centered somewhere in the forests beyond Palestina, a territory in what was Uganda, in a world that is not our own. Tidhar’s book is a cabinet of wonders—it will not stop proffering surprises ’til the end.

For more info on UNHOLY LAND, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton