Nir Yaniv

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". Yaniv has been active as a musician from early on, initially with the Israeli jazz-funk band Plutonium and more recently with the Emmy Award winning soprano Hila Plitmann. 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, including the animated Liftoff, a "touching, hand-illustrated piece of a man’s journey to the moon". Welcome To Your A.I. Future (2023) dealing with emergent A.I. technology, was featured in New Scientist. Loontown (also 2023), imagines "a Dystopian Los Angeles populated by sentient Balloons".

• Name — Nir Yaniv • Born — 1972 • Birthplace — Jerusalem, Israel • Occupation — Author, editor, musician • Genre — Science fiction • Native Name — ניר יניב

• 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.

• 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.

• "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.

• 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

Short film • Year — Title — Director — Writer — Producer • 2013 — MicroTime • 2017 — Addict Animated short film • Year — Title — Director — Writer — Producer • 2014 — Liftoff • 2018 — Memories of a Third Planet • 2023 — Welcome To Your A.I. Future • 2023 — Loontown • 2024 — The Radio • 2026 — Io Short Form Animated Series • Year — Title — Director — Writer — Executive producer — Creator • 2024 — Mars Machines