Online Interview
Lavie Tidhar
Regarding His Book
“The Circumference of the World”
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, at 4 PM EST
Free and Open to the Public
This is a virtual event that requires an Internet connection and Zoom*
We are pleased to present an online interview with Lavie Tidhar, an inventive author who brings new dimensions to science fiction. In his recent book “The Circumference of the World, he parlays a science fiction mystery into a cosmic story about an “elusive and notorious book” called “Lode Stars” sought by an array of eclectic characters, including a mathematician, book dealer, and Russian mobster. The book “disappears upon being read,” and “only the author, a rakish science fiction writer by the name of Eugene Charles Hartley and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax.” As a reviewer on Goodreads put it, “is any of “Lode Stars” real? Delia Welegtabit, the mathematician, “searches for her father in a strange star system with three black holes. Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, creating a religion he didn’t believe in? Or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe?”
Bio of Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar is an award-winning author of literary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, graphic novels, and middlegrade fiction, including “The Circumference of the World, Central Station, The Escapement, and Neom.” He received the Campbell, Xingyun, and Neukom Awards for the novel “Central Station, and has spoken at such institutions and festivals as Cambridge University, PEN, and the Singapore Writers Festival. Tidhar has been a Guest of Honor at book conventions in Japan, Poland, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, China, and elsewhere. He currently resides with his family in London.
Bio of Michelle Ann Schingler
Michelle Schingler is the editor in chief of “Foreword Reviews,” which specializes in the coverage of independent books. She has a background in library work, an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School, and an MA from the University of Georgia. She's also an avid science fiction reader, for which she owes Lavie Tidhar a partial debt of gratitude.
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