NEOM

First edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Author's copy. Publisher's original illustrated boards, in the dustwrapper and illustrated card slipcase. With illustrated endpapers and a black and white double-page illustration preceding the text. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh, with just a touch of bumping to the tail of the spine. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper, that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped. Housed in the lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in an edition of 200 copies, from which this edition is marked 'PC' [publisher's copy], and signed by Lavie Tidhar in blue ink on the limitation page and with his ownership signature in black ink on the verso. Nominated for the 2023 Locus and Dragon Awards for 'Best SF Novel'. "I wrote Neom as the purest form of escape, returning to the wider world of my future history that encompasses Central Station and over forty short stories, taking side trips to Titan and Mars, and exploring the lives of small people trying to make a living in a wildly futuristic world. Winter turned to spring and pandemic restrictions were slowly lifting. Humans and robots swarmed across the Arabian Peninsula in search of better lives, too. I got to revisit the places I knew, the coasts of the Sinai and the ancient port towns of Egypt. I knew the old wars, too, sadly. But in Neom the wars were all of the ancient past, even if their ghosts still haunted the city's present" (Interview with Lavie Tidhar by Shvaugn Craig for 'My Favorite Bit': Mary Robinette Kowal, Journal, 2022).