A NOVEL by Lavie Tidhar
CATEGORY Science Fiction
PUBLICATION DATE  December 2025
COVER & BOOK DESIGN Pedro Marques
PAGES 272

EDITION
Oversized (178mm x 254mm) Signed Hardcover  — ISBN  978-1-78636-994-9
Housed in a Skivertex Leatherette traycase with silver foiling and limited to 26 lettered copies signed by the author

This edition includes additional material: A new Introduction and Afterword by Lavie Tidhar plus "Henry, Caesar of the Air, His Life and Times, or, The Book of Qat".
 
ABOUT THE BOOK

Delia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isn't supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous.

Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to fifi nd the novel.

After Delia's husband Levi goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer. The infamous novel Lode Stars was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley: legendary pulp science-fiction writer and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes.

In Hartley's novel, a doppelganger of Delia searches for her missing father in a strange star system. But is any of Lode Stars real? Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, creating a religion he did not believe in? Or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe?