Israeli musician
Nir Yaniv |
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| Born | 1972 (age 52–53)
Jerusalem, Israel |
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| Occupation | Author, editor, musician |
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| Nationality | Israeli |
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| Genre | Science fiction |
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Nir Yaniv (Hebrew: 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.[3] 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.[3]
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
- Ktov Ke'shed Mi'shachat (One Hell of a Writer). Israel: Odyssey Press, 2006. A short story collection.
- Retzach Bidyoni (Fictional Murder). Israel: Odyssey Press, 2009. A novel, with Lavie Tidhar.
- Melech Yerushlaim (King of Jerusalem). Israel: Yaniv Publishing, 2019. a novel.
In English
- The Tel Aviv Dossier. Canada: ChiZine Publications, 2009. A novel, with Lavie Tidhar.
- The Love Machine & Other Contraptions. UK: Infinity Plus Books, 2012. A short story collection.
- The Good Soldier. Canada: Shadowpaw Press, 2024. Novel.
Selected Short Stories
- "A Wizard on the Road". Shimmer Magazine, 2006
- "The Dream of the Blue Man". Weird Tales, September 2008
- "A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor". Shimmer Magazine, 2009. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 ed. Rich Horton (2010).
- "Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys". Apex Magazine, November 2009. Reprinted in The Best of World SF, ed Lavie Tidhar (2021).
- "The Believers". Chizine, March 2010. Reprinted in Zion's Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature, ed. Lottem & Teitelbaum.
- "Undercity". Apex Magazine, August 2012.
Music
- The Universe in a Pita: a Hebrew science fiction rock album.
- Funkapella: a concept-album using vocals and drums only, with no other instruments.
- Happiness is Real: a live dance and music performance with choreographer and dancer Ilanit Tadmor.
- The Voice Remains[14]
Filmography
Short film
| Year
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Title
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Director
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Writer
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Producer
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| 2013
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MicroTime
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| 2017
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Addict
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Animated short film
| Year
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Title
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Director
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Writer
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Producer
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| 2014
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Liftoff
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| 2018
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Memories of a Third Planet
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| 2023
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Welcome To Your A.I. Future
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| 2023
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Loontown
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| 2024
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The Radio
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Short Form Animated Series
| Year
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Title
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Director
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Writer
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Executive
producer
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Creator
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| 2024
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Mars Machines
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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References
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