Central Station
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar, published by Tachyon Publications in 2016, is a thought-provoking exploration of a future shaped by a worldwide diaspora. This edition spans 275 pages and is presented in English. The narrative unfolds at the foot of a space station, where cultures intersect in both reality and virtual realms, revealing a city that has grown unchecked, where life and data hold little value.
Readers will encounter Boris Chong, who returns to Tel Aviv from Mars to find his world transformed. His ex-lover raises a child with extraordinary abilities, while his cousin becomes entangled with a damaged cyborg. The story delves into themes of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic existence, cyberpunk elements, and the complexities of human-machine interactions. Central Station serves as an interplanetary hub, connecting various lives and realities, all influenced by powerful alien entities and the ever-evolving landscape of consciousness.
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An NPR Best Book of 2016
An Amazon Featured Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book
A Guardian Best SF & Fantasy Book of 2016
Longlist, British Science Fiction Award 2016, Best Novel
2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee
“It’s all of science fiction distilled into a single book.”
–Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun Machine
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper.
When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik–a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.
Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation–a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness–are just the beginning of irrevocable change.
At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive…and even evolve.
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