(Image Source: Financial Times) The award winning British-Pakistani novelist, Mohsin Hamid, published a short story on an Alien Invasion in Financial Times which was quite well received. Here is an excerpt from the story: A hot wind rattles the roof of our shanty. Corrugated metal bucks up and down, scrabbling againstContinue Reading
Writing about HWJN has been on my list of to-do things for a while but it is only now that I am able to post anything about it. HWJN is the brainchild of Ibraheem Abbas and Yasser Bahjatt who published the novel via their own publishing company Yatakhalayoon in 2013.Continue Reading
Usman T. Malik is a personal friend who is also an award-winning speculative fiction author. He is also from Lahore, Pakistan. He is the first Muslim and Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction and was the finalist for the Nebula Award twice in a row. HisContinue Reading
Haris Durrani has an interesting take on Science Fiction and Fantasy geared towards a Muslim audience who may not be familiar towards the genre. Here is an excerpt from Eight Myths about Science Fiction and Fantasy at AltMuslimah Most people who haven’t read science fiction and fantasy (SFF) define itContinue Reading
There was a great post on IO9 today by Charlie Jane Anders pointing to a post by a Nigerian author by the name of Wole Talabi who presented his list of the 10 Best African Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories of 2015. All the stories are a real treasure to read,Continue 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
Unravel Me is a Young Adult novel, part of the Shatter Me series, by the American author Tahereh Mafi which can be described as set in X-manish Dystopia where food and water are scarce. There is an organization set to reestablish order in the world but has other motives asContinue Reading
(Image Source: Abu Pokemon) A sub-genre of Science Fiction that deserve more attention is Comedy Science Fiction or Science Fiction with more humor. I recently came across this now defunct Muslim humor website Abu Pokemon which narrates stories with Lego and found one with can be described as Science Fiction.Continue Reading
Dark Matter is an epic Science Fiction novel by a Bangladeshi-American author Dark Matter which portrays diverse aliens, delves into a solution of the Fermi-Paradox and an all round adventure. Here is the description of the book from the official website: Dark matter, the invisible substance that constitutes the bulkContinue Reading
One of the earliest Turkish Sci-Fi Utopias was written by the Turkish nationalist author Raif Necdet. In Semavi İhtiras (The Celestial Passion), published in 1933 a future secular and republican Turkish utopia is imagined. The story is about Nobel-prize winning Turkish authors and Turkish girls who have many more freedomsContinue Reading