No story today, just a couple of links found while visiting a few of my favorite sites: http://io9.com/f-or-noor-hashem-a-mellon-postdoctoral-fellow-in-the-1711141616 http://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2015/summer/muslim-sci-fi-and-comics Happy Sunday!
Though I’m not an avid gamer of simulations, undoubtedly the Civilization series by Sid Meier is hugely popular. The latest version of the game, called Civilization: Beyond Earth – The Rising Tide Expansion Pack adds an interesting twist, it introduces a new faction – Al Falah. According to Civilization.com website –Continue Reading
(Image Source: Pinterest) Woodturtle has a really interesting take on the world of Steampunk and being a Muslim. Here is a relevant excerpt. It’s complicated enough to juggle issues of power, representation and creative expression — but in a fantastical world based on subversion, historical revisionism and the creation ofContinue Reading
Here is Islam and Science Fiction’s interview with Razwan-ul-Haq who is a British Muslim artist and whom we had profiled last month. 1. What inspired you to become an artist? Razwan: That’s a question as I get asked a lot. When growing up I never really thought of myself asContinue Reading
Razwan Ul-Haq is a British Muslim artist with a wide range of artistic styles. His work can be described as The experiential Islamic Art … is a post-modern reflection, that draws from the well that fed the traditional calligraphic foundations of Islamic Art. Razwan uses a number of Science Fiction motifs in hisContinue Reading
Robert Rath has an excellent article on how Muslims can be better represented in the media in general and video games in particular over at the Escapist. Here we reproduce that article with the permission of the author. Better Representing Muslims: A Few Ideas ROBERT RATH | 13 JUNE 2013 11:00 AM183Continue Reading
Pakistani Starfleet Explorers is a series of artwork by Kenny Hassan Irwin who is not Pakistani by descent but he seems to be Pakistani by heart. Irwin’s series envisions a future Pakistan which has peacefully expanded into space and has colonies on many star systems. Irwin’s art can be describedContinue Reading
(Artist: Kenny Hassan Irving) As promised last year we will be doing a week long series on Science Fiction coming from Pakistan from tomorrow onwards. The stories will range from Science Fiction novels to Spiderman spottings in Pakistan to Pakistani Star Fleet Academy to stories with the son of HitlerContinue Reading
While it strictly does not fall under Islam and Sci-fi but Eric Wilkerson recently did an art piece for the September 2013 issue of “Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show” showing a priest evangelizing to an alien. Since Islam is also an evangelizing religion this art piece seemed relevant andContinue Reading
As promised here is the video of our Geeks of Color Assemble panel at the New York Comic Con (NYCC). I have been meaning to post these for a while but my mind has been fixated on the recent tragic event. The news of this video was also the lastContinue Reading