Nir Yaniv | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Occupation | Author, editor, musician |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Genre | Science fiction |
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]