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Charles Stross’ Accelerando

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

The story is set in a post singularity future. Sadeq is a Muslim character and is a prominent secondary character, an imam on a small ship in orbit around Jupiter and asked to adjudicate a very complicated dispute according to Islamic law and is later tempted in a virtual reality universe with a false version [...]



Philip K. Dick’s Eye in the Sky

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

The story begins when Jack Hamilton and seven other people are caught in an accident at Belmont Bevatron. When he regains consciousness he finds himself in a fantastical world ruled by Muslim extremists where holy water works, instant plagues are sent by God, prayers are answered instantly. Most bizarre is the fact that the universe [...]



Arnold J. Toynbee’s A Study of History

By admin • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Alternative History, Featured

In A Study of History Toynbee ponders upon a few alternative history scenarios that are relatrd to Islam in one way or another.
The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Eastern Christian Civilization: In this scenario the Ummayids do not reinvade Central Asia after their defeat at Kish-Samarkand pass in 731. The Central Asians adapt Nestorian [...]



Kim Stanley Robinson’s Years of Rice and Salt

By admin • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Alternative History, English SF, Featured, Islam in SF Literature

This is one of the best novels on alternative history involving Islam. In this alternative history the bubonic plague kills 99% of the population in Europe, leaving the Islamic world and China as contest over the control of the world with India caught in the Middle. The main characters are reincarnated many times and the [...]



Steven Barnes’s Zulu Heart

By admin • Sep 15th, 2008 • Category: Alternative History, English SF, Featured

A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
[From the Publisher] “The year is 1294 - to Christians, 1877. Egypt’s Pharaoh threatens war against Ethiopia’s Empress and plans to embroil the New World in his cause. While the Northern colonists are subjects of the Pharaoh, Southern revolutionaries are loyal to the Empress.” “Caught in [...]