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Nir Yaniv ( Hebrew : ניר יניב ) is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist. 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, and in 2007 he became chief editor of Chalomot Be'aspamia , Israel's only professionally printed SF&F magazine. As an author, Yaniv's short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales , Apex Magazine , The Best of World SF 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 . 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". 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". "@niryanivmusic a.k.a 💝 @nyfiction sharing love from us two yokels to all of you #sunny #losangeles…" ( Tweet ) – via Twitter .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Nir Yaniv ( ) is an Israeli musician, author and editor. In 2000 he founded the webzine of the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy , and was its chief editor for seven years. In 2007 he became chief editor of Chalomot Be'aspamia , Israel's only professional printed SF&F magazine.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Nir Yaniv ( ) is an Israeli musician, author, editor and film maker. In 2000 he founded the webzine of the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy , and was its chief editor for seven years. In 2007 he became chief editor of Chalomot Be'aspamia , Israel's only professional printed SF&F magazine.
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Israeli musician Nir Yaniv ( ) is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist.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, and in 2007 he became chief editor of Chalomot Be'aspamia , Israel's only professionally printed SF&F magazine. As an author, Yaniv's short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales , Apex Magazine , The Best of World SF 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 .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"."מוזיקה – להקת פלוטוניום" . @HilaPlitmann (24 December 2018)."@niryanivmusic a.k.a 💝 @nyfiction sharing love from us two yokels to all of you #sunny #losangeles…" ( Tweet ) – via Twitter .
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israeli musician
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israeli multidisciplinary artist
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