Lavie Tidhar sold three books to Publishing Director Marc Gascoigne of Angry Robot via agent John Berlyne of the Zeno Literary Agency. Gascoigne says The Bookman is a steampunk adventure, and is an “exciting mix of Victorian culture and anachronistically advanced technology. In The Bookman, a shadowy terrorist of that name brings London society practically to a standstill by placing bombs inside books. After several atrocities against London’s theatres, he outdoes himself with an audacious attack on the blessing of the launch of the first expedition to Mars. For young poet Orphan, whose girlfriend is killed in that blast, it is the start of an epic adventure that will bring him face-to-face not only with the master-criminal but his own lost past.” The Bookman is scheduled to appear in Spring 2010, “and will run to at least two further volumes.”
We reviewed Tidhar’s collection Hebrew Punk in this article.