Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award winning author of" Osama" (2011), and of "The Violent Century" (2013) in addition to many other works. He works across genres, combining detective and thriller modes with poetry, science fiction and historical and autobiographical material. His work has been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by "The Guardian" and "The Financial Times", and to Kurt Vonnegut s by "Locus".