Lavie Tidhar

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Lavie Tidhar

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Marsian n. 1 2015 L. Tidhar Dynamics of Asteroid in Mammoth Book of Adventures of Moriarty vi. 75 Make no mistake—it was the Marsians’ final goal: to rule us all, to control the world! Only Moran and I stood in their way—unlikely defenders of humankind.
Marsian adj. 2015 L. Tidhar Dynamics of Asteroid in Mammoth Book of Adventures of Moriarty i. 67 I checked my gun. Before, I had no use for guns. I believed in the mind, in pure mathematics. It was that which led to my infamous lecture, before the Royal Society, about the dynamics of that d—ed Marsian asteroid.
probability world n. 2012 L. Tidhar Great Game xlii. 306 [T]hese semi-scanners worked on broken frequencies, on quantum probability pocket worlds not seen or even remembered by any but the oldest of antiquarians. Like those tripod machines. This, the observer felt, could not go on. There were rules or, if not exactly rules, there was such a thing as decorum. Which meant those probability world incursions had to stop. The observer felt quite cheerful now. Soon it would be all over and he’d be back where he belonged.