Imagine "Spider, an intelligent rock drifting through space listening to and absorbing everything – especially music – and looking for a place to nest and lay his children. " This is the basic plot of Lavie Tidhar’s story Temporal Spider, Spatial Webs which won this years Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition that is sponsored and organised by the European Space Agency.

Lavie has only been writing fiction for one year and and has had several stories accepted for publication in various anthologies and magazines. He also writes a regular review column for an online site and reviews short fiction magazines for a bi-monthly magazine.

To misquote Mr Olivander (of Harry Potter fame) "One thing is clear, I think we can expect great things from you Mr Tidhar"

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