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 sopranoHila 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]
"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.
