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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Emir’s Clock in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fifth Annual Collection: A remarkable clock flashes a message of seemingly divine origin to a young Arab, charging him with the task of creating a new race of intelligent machines. [Synopsis from Fictionwise]
Two races live on a colonized world in a perpetual state of war. One of the races has a very traditional sort of stereotypical Islamic culture, the other is more western, thought not completely. In the end, they find out they are really tribes that once came from the same desert — an analogy for [...]
Published in Citizen Culture Magazine, Feb 2005. A futuristic look at a world where seminaries encourage multiculturalism and the quest for tolerance is taken a step too far.
[Entry thanks to Pamela Taylor]
