Nir Yaniv Explained

Nir Yaniv
Birth Place:Jerusalem, Israel
Occupation:Author, editor, musician
Nationality:Israeli
Genre:Science fiction

Nir Yaniv (he|ניר יניב) is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist.[1]

He was active early on as a science fiction editor in Israel. In 2000 he founded the webzine of the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy,[2] and in 2007 he became chief editor of Chalomot Be'aspamia, Israel's only professionally printed SF&F magazine.[3]

As an author, Yaniv's short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales,[4] Apex Magazine,[5] The Best of World SF[6] and others. He collaborated with World Fantasy Award winning author Lavie Tidhar on two novels, including the "deranged sci-fi extravaganza" (per The Jewish Quarterly) The Tel Aviv Dossier and released the English language collection The Love Machine & Other Contraptions. Yaniv returned to fiction publishing in 2024 with the novel The Good Soldier, an " amiable satire of the gung-ho heroics of military sci-fi".[7]

Yaniv has been active as a musician from early on, initially with the Israeli jazz-funk band Plutonium[8] and more recently with the Emmy Award winning soprano Hila Plitmann.[9] He released several independent albums, including "the first Hebrew-language SF Music themed album", The Universe in a Pita.

From 2013 he has also been making short films as a writer/director,[10] including the animated Liftoff, a "touching, hand-illustrated piece of a man’s journey to the moon".[11] Welcome To Your A.I. Future (2023) dealing with emergent A.I. technology, was featured in New Scientist.[12] Loontown (also 2023), imagines "a Dystopian Los Angeles populated by sentient Balloons".[13]

Fiction

In Hebrew

In English

Selected Short Stories

Music

Filmography

Short film

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer
2013MicroTime
2017Addict

Animated short film

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer
2014Liftoff
2018Memories of a Third Planet
2023Welcome To Your A.I. Future
2023Loontown

Short Form Animated Series

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Multidisciplinary Artist Nir Yaniv Releases New EP the Voice Remains .
  2. Web site: 17 March 2008 . The Universe in a Pita: An Interview with Nir Yaniv .
  3. Web site: SFE: Yaniv, Nir . 2021-12-21 . sf-encyclopedia.com.
  4. Web site: 9 December 2007 . Weird Tales: Nir Yaniv on Writing Speculative Fiction in Israel .
  5. Web site: Nir yaniv Archives .
  6. Web site: 4 December 2020 . Celebrating International Speculative Fiction: Lavie Tidhar on the Best of World SF Anthology .
  7. https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781989398821
  8. Web site: מוזיקה – להקת פלוטוניום .
  9. 1077252398689640449 . HilaPlitmann . @niryanivmusic a.k.a @nyfiction sharing love from us two yokels to all of you #sunny #losangeles… . 24 December 2018.
  10. Web site: Nir Yaniv . IMDb.
  11. Web site: 16 November 2013 . UK Film Festival 2013: Animation and Student Shorts .
  12. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2369244-sci-fi-author-lavie-tidhar-using-midjourney-to-explore-ethics-of-ai/
  13. https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/loontown
  14. Web site: 8 June 2018 . In Conversation—with Nir Yaniv .

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