My best novel (so far) is out!
In a city built on myth and soaked in rain, truth is the most dangerous thing you can find.
Mara Raven doesn’t believe in gods, monsters, or totems. She believes in the dream-sea, an eerie, otherworldly current only she can dive into, dragging up secrets some would prefer to stay buried. Her husband is missing, and the dream-sea is the only way she knows to find him. For her, sinking into its water is not faith. It’s survival.
When a rich women’s corpse explodes in the rain outside the Temple and floods half the Hill, Mara’s pulled away from the search for her husband and back into the job she never asked for: using her strange Power to fish for killers in a city rotting from the inside out. The Temple wants silence, preferring to pray to the Slaughtered Ones, long dead ancestors Mara doesn’t believe ever existed. The constables want results. And someone else, known only as the Revealer, wants to open the ancient Gate to the so-called Abode of the Ancestors, an act which may prove disastrous.
As the city drowns in its myths and murder, Mara follows a trail of blood, lies, and twisted devotion as nightmares from the dream-sea begin to bleed into reality. A seal has been broken. Something is coming through that Gate, and it’s not forgiveness for the city’s sins.
Dark, hallucinatory, and sharp as broken glass, A Tale of Three Cities is a speculative noir mystery for readers who like their heroines mad, bad, and haunted.
Most of my academic publications can be found on Researchgate and Academia. com
"The Poetics of Censorship: Allegory as Form and Ideology in the Novels of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky”, Science-Fiction Studies, Vol.22, Part 1 (1995), 87-106.
“Mystery, Apocalypse and Utopia: The Case of the Ontological Detective Story”. Science-Fiction Studies, Vol.22, Part 3 (1995), 343-355.
“Hard and Wet: Luce Irigaray and the Fascist Body”, Textual Practice, Vol. 12 Issue 2 (1998), 199-223.
“Science Fiction in Russia: From Utopia to New Age”, Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 26 (1999), 435-441.
“From Dr. Moreau to Dr. Mengele: The Biological Sublime”, Poetics Today, Vol. 21, Number 2 (2000), 393-423.
“Aliens Among Us: Fascism and Narrativity”, The Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol.31, Number 1 (2000), 127-163.
“The Plague of Utopias: Pestilence and the Apocalyptic Body”, Twentieth-Century Literature, Vol. 1, (Winter 2001), 405-434.
“Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and the (Un)Death of the Author”, Narrative, Vol. 12, No. 1 (January 2004), 74-92.
“Romancing the Crystal: Utopias of Transparency and Dreams of Pain”. Utopian Studies 15.2 (2004), 65-91 (with Stephen Weninger).
“Gods Like Men: Soviet Science Fiction and the Utopian Self”, Science- Fiction Studies 94 (no.31, part 3, 2004), 358-377
“’Spirits in the Material World’: Spiritualism and Identity in the Fin de Siecle”, Victorian Literature and Culture 35 (2007), 189-213
"Lost and Found: The Lost World Novel and the Shape of the Past". Genre LX (Spring/Summer 2007), 103-127.
“Shapes of the Past and the Future: Darwin and the Narratology of Time Travel” Narrative Vol. 17, No.3 (May 2009), 334-352 (special issue on time and narrative).
"Everyday Apocalypse: G. J. Ballard and the Ethics and Aesthetics of the End of Time”. Partial Answers 8:1 (January 2010).
"Science (Fiction) and Posthuman Ethics: Redefining the Human". The European Legacy Vol. 16, No 3 (2011), 339-354.
"'Part of Dreadful Thing': The Urban Chronotope of Bleak House". Partial Answers Vol. 9, No.2 (June 2011), 297-311.
"Posthuman Voices: Alien Infestation and the Poetics of Subjectivity". Science Fiction Studies 117 (Vol.39, Part 2, July 2012), 177-195.
“Invasion of the Dead (Languages): Zombie Apocalypse and the End of Narrative”. Frame – Journal of Literary Studies (26-1; May 2013).
“History of the End: Viktor Pelevin and Literary Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Russia”. Narrative Vol. 21, No. 3 (October 2013), 309-322 (special issue on Postmodernist Fiction: East and West).
“Cannibal Cities: Monstrous Urban Bodies in Contemporary Fantasy”. Redisco: Discourse and the Body http://periodicos.uesb.br/index.php/redisco/article/view/6184 .
“Utopia, Dystopia, Limbotopia: A Case for Expanding the Genres of the Future” (with Vered Karti Shemtov). Comparative Literature (Vol. 70, Issue 1, 2018).
אוטפיה, דיסטופיה, לימבוטופיה (עם ורד שם-טוב)
אות כתב את לספרות ולתיאוריה
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Recycled Dystopias: Cyberpunk and the End of History”. ARTS http://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/cyberpunk#published
“How Literature Refuses to Write the Future” (with Vered Shemtov) Dibur, no. 6 (Fall 2018)