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Stephen Baxtor’s Navigator

By admin • Dec 26th, 2008 • Category: Alternative History, English SF, Islam in SF Literature

Here is the book description from Amazon.
As William the Conqueror’s men attempt to stamp out the flames of rebellion, a prophecy is uttered. A bedraggled woman in a ruined chapel speaks of civilizations in conflict, armed by the engines of God…
And that prophecy proves to be true as the fearsome war between Christianity and Islam [...]



A Mosque Among The Stars Released

By admin • Dec 24th, 2008 • Category: News

A Mosque Amongst The Stars, an anthology that I was co-editing with Ahmed A. Khan has been released. More information on the book can be found on the book webpage here. The table of contents is available here and contributing author bios can be read at this webpage. Currently the book can be ordered via [...]



Podcasts on Sci-Fi related series on Hotconflict

By admin • Oct 7th, 2008 • Category: Other Media

Saleem Siddiqui of Hotconflict has a series of podcasts on various science fiction related series and Islam. These include Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and Stargate. Here is the link:
http://www.hotconflict.com/blog/popculture.html



The 99 in Elle Girl

By admin • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Comics, SF by Muslims



Urdu Science Fiction

By admin • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Islam in SF Literature, Urdu SF

Jim Walker has an excellent article on Urdu Science Fiction at the Science Fiction foundation which mentions the following Science Fiction novels in Urdu.

Ishtiaq Ahmed’s Machini Makhlooq  (Mechanical Creatures) 1986
Agha Ashraf’s Ba’ghi Computer (The Rebel Computer) 1988.
A Hameed has also written a number of Science Fiction Novels.



Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

By admin • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Arabic SF, Islam in SF Literature, SF by Muslims

Although the “Second Edition)” has nothing on Islam in Science Fiction per se but a search on “Islam Science Fiction” leads to an article on Arab Science Fiction. Here is the article:
There are, of course, many fantastic motifs in medieval Arabic literature, as in the collection of stories of various genres Alf layla wa layla [...]



Short Stories

By admin • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: English SF, Islam in SF Literature

Short stories by Bruce Sterling
Green Days in Brunei - from the Crystal Express collection and Dinner in Audoghast - from the Crystal Express collection, Islands in the Net - the freedom fighters definitely draw from Bedouin culture. Thanks to Michael H. for the references]
Other Short Stories
Gwyneth Jones’s Bold As Love (Arthur C Clarke Award winner), [...]



Blemmey’s Stratagem

By admin • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: English SF, Islam in SF Literature

In Blemmey’s Stratagem one of the characters who is an assassin in this crusader era lovecroftian story is a Muslim.
[Thanks Michael H. for the references]



Sarah Zettel’s Fool’s War

By admin • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: English SF, Islam in SF Literature

The following description from the Publishers Weekly:
In “alien contact” science fiction, the aliens come from far off, light-years away. But what if the aliens were closer to home? What if the next great life-form with which we must contend isn’t from the stars but from our hard drives? In Zettel’s second novel (after Reclamation), Katmer [...]



N Lee Wood’s Looking for the Mahdi

By admin • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: English SF, Islam in SF Literature

The story is set in the fictional Middle Eastern poor country of Khuruchabja. We see the event unfold through the eyes of a female correspondent of a news agency who has disguised herself as a man to roam freely in this strict country. Ten years later when the protagonist is still working in a news [...]