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(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 twoContinue Reading
Sophia Al-Maria, who also goes by the nom-de-plume Sci-Fi Wahabi, is a Qatari artist and a writer. Her work is mainly fused with futurism in the Gulf region. In the past she has curated a tour of Doha by Dhow called “Future Tents” and has also performed ‘tours from the future’Continue Reading
The Orion’s Arm Universe Project is an online collaborative project focused on world building. Recently I received an invitation letter from the creators of the project. These folks have been around for sometime now and the projects has been praised by the likes of Cory Doctorow. The invitation is not just toContinue Reading
Islam in Science Fiction has joined the 21st century, we have a page on facebook – one more place where the users can interact with us. If you have any questions about the site, information that is relevant to this website but which has not been covered then you canContinue Reading
I would like to welcome a new contributor to the website Sofia Samatar. Here is a brief bio for Sofia. Sofia Samatar is a PhD student in African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specializes in twentieth-century Egyptian and Sudanese literatures. Her poetry has appeared inContinue Reading