Nancy Kress’ An Alien Light

17Sep - by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad - 0 - In English SF Islam in SF Literature

An Alien Light.” It’s set on a colony world dominated by aliens. The backstory is not completely spelled out, but apparently the human population is descended from a crashed spacecraft that was transporting the members of an Islamic sect. The name of the planet is Qom which is possible a reference to the Shitte Muslim holy city of Qom in Iran.
[Thanks to Paul C. for the synopsis]

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Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

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