This sounds like another story where the Arabs and the Muslims are the big bad guys. Here is the premise of the story form Google Books. CIA agent John Norris braves capture, torture, and death to stop fanatic Arab dictator Abu Ben Salamat who intends to unleash a deadly superweapon unless the world capitulates to his demands The Arab leader in case creates a superweapon which can create sunspots on the sun which in turn … Continue reading
Quantum Hijra is a Science Fiction tale with sufi themes by Dawoud who is a Muslim musician, composer, poet, author and an overall inspiring figure. Quantum Hijra is his first novel and would be coming out next week (March 20, 2013). It is being released by Leilah Publications. Here is an except from the Novel’s official website: QUANTUM HIJRA is an epic science fiction tale that is one of the most unique ever told by … Continue reading
The Religious War is a sequel to Scott Adams’ God’s Debris. Scott Adams is the well known creator of the excellent comic strop Dilbert. It is set in the near future where the smartest man in the world tries to stop a war between Christians and Muslims. Here are some details from Scott Adam’s blog about the book: The main plot element involved the idea that Islamic terrorists would regularly bomb targets in the United … Continue reading
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Star of Islam is an upcoming novel by T. Jackson King to be released in May. It has a somewhat strange premise i.e., the Shias take over large parts of the world within a decade. The prologue of the book given below gives the setting of the novel. It sounds a little too fantastical. From a graduate course seminar given by Saad Idnn Ibrahim, Sunni Lecturer and Fulbright Scholar at the University of California Los … Continue reading
Female, Muslim, and mutant: Muslim women in comic books By Jahanzeb Dar A convoy of jeeps packed with turban-clad and bearded Taliban militia roar through the rocky streets of a small Afghan town. The engines slowly die down as the militiamen hop off their vehicles and prepare to unleash havoc and raid homes. But something unusual mystifies them and halts their extremist fervor. An ominous silence fills the town, as if it were a strange … Continue reading
A Mosque Among The Stars was the first anthology that dealt with the subject of Muslim characters and/or Islamic themes and Science Fiction. It was edited by me (Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad) and the Canadian Muslim author Ahmad Khan. It came out in 2007. Now that it has been years since it was released in printed form, we have decided to release A Mosque Among The Stars to the public as a Creative Commons Licensed (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) book. … Continue reading
“The Men who Murdered Mohammed” is short story by Alfred Bester first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1958. The premise of the story is that a mad scientist invents a time machine and goes in the past killing famous people but discovers that killing people does not make any difference to history as history remains unchanged.
Background: Noura Al Noman is an Emirati writer from Sharjah. She studied English literature at the UAE University and got Masters in Translation in 2004 from the American University in Sharjah. Previous to her current foray into Science Fiction she has written children’s books in the past. Ajwan is her first science fiction novel and will be launched on the second day of the Sharjah International Book Fair November 8th, 2012. It is being … Continue reading
I will be on a couple of panels at the 36th annual WisCon 23 this weekend being held in Madison, Wisconsin. WisCon is the world’s leading feminist-oriented science fiction convention and conference. I will mainly be talking about Science Fiction in translation (mainly from the Muslim world) and Science Fiction with Muslim and/or Islamic themes. Be sure to stop by if you are the conference. Speculative Fiction in/and Translation Date: Sat, 8:30–9:45 am Room: Capitol … Continue reading
(Image Source: Matt Ruff’s Official Website) About Matt Ruff: Matt Ruff is a well known novelist whose work has won numerous awards inclusing being long-listed for the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, winning the 2007 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Washington State Book Award, two PNBA Book Awards, and two Washington State Book Award. Matt has also recieved the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose. He has published five different novels with … Continue reading
