Central Station

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover Miriam is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the data stream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin Isobel is infatuated with a robotnik—a cyborg ex-Israeli soldier who might well be begging for parts. Even his old flame Carmel—a hunted data-vampire—has followed him back to a planet where she is forbidden to return. Rising above all is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful entities who, through the Conversation—a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness—are just the beginning of irrevocable change.


"If you want to know what SF is going to look like in the next decade, this is it."—Gardner Dozois, editor of the bestselling Year's Best Science Fiction series“A dazzling tale of complicated politics and even more
complicated souls. Beautiful.”—Ken Liu, Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy winner and
author of The Grace of Kings“Lavie Tidhar weaves the threads of classic and modern
science fiction tropes with the skills of a gene surgeon and creates a whole
new landscape to portray a future both familiar and unsettling. A unique
marriage of Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, C. L. Moore, China Miéville, and
Larry Niven with 50 degrees of compassion and the bizarre added. An
irresistible cocktail.”—Maxim Jakubowski, author of the Sunday Times bestselling Vina Jackson novels