Tales of Zion’s Fiction
A first-person history of Israeli science fiction, its writers and readership.
Dossier 05 · Scholarship
Science Fiction & Literary History
Essays, literary history and reference work.
Featured investigation · 1991 / 2026
The Bleeding Man Revisited
The Craig Strete–Ron Montana investigation: competing manuscripts, a publisher’s responsibility, and the influence of friendships and reputations within science fiction.
Read the revised investigation, publication history and sources →
These essays and entries trace how a literary field takes shape: its early utopias, writers, translated stories, readers and institutions. The reference work puts Israeli and Jewish speculative fiction into a longer history; the essays bring the chronicler’s own experience into the account.
Essays & literary history
SF in Israel
The field and the arrival of Zion’s Fiction.
Introduction to Zion’s Fiction
With Emanuel Lottem.
Hunting the Elephant in the Airlock: The Problematics of Israeli Speculative Literature
With Emanuel Lottem.
Encyclopedia entries
Israel
By Sheldon Teitelbaum, with later contributions by Emanuel Lottem and Yehoshua Paul.
Science Fiction and Fantasy, Jewish
Los Angeles
Second-edition contribution.
Nevada
Second-edition contribution.
Jewish speculative fiction
Science fiction journalism
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- Crammed With Enough Information to Fill the Universe
- Playing With History: Harry Turtledove
- Scientists Say Asimov Put the Stars in Their Eyes
- Changing Haunts
- Out of Science Fiction, A New View of Contemporary Reality?
- Writer Creates Ultimate Mall for Future's Jaded Shopper
- Men in Tights: Michael Chabon and the Golem
- Harry Turtledove’s Alternate Histories
- “You Just Don’t Get It”
- Andrei Codrescu and The Blood Countess
- Isaac Asimov's Galactic Talent
- Dick And The Jews
- Count Codrescu
- Harry'S War Of The Worlds
- Il Yiddishe Postino
- Privacy Is History—Get Over It