While not exactly Science Fiction, this book by Anand Taneja would be of interest to the audience of Islam and Science Fiction. Jinns are supernatural creatures in Islamic beliefs that have sentience and free-will like human beings. Professor Taneja from Vanderbilt University explores how the living interact with the Jinns inContinue Reading
Marianne Edwards Fire Boy is the first book of a duology by Sami Shah. Shah is a comedian, broadcaster, writer, speaker, and newshound. He has the breadth of perspective you’d expect from someone with so many strings to his bow. The story shows how a baby of extraordinary origins becomesContinue Reading
Jinns are intelligent beings in Islamic belief system which have free will just like human beings. Unlike humans however they are made of smokeless fire. Jinns are also supposed to have different religions just like humans e.g., Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism etc and even Atheism. Jinns are supposed to liveContinue Reading
The Golem and the Jinni is the Debut novel by Helene Wecker. combines themes from the Islamic and Jewish literature in the setting of late 19th century America. In a way the Golem who is from Danzing Germany and the Jinni who is from Syria are immigrants to the newContinue Reading
Fire and Clay is a book by Kaaronica Evans-Ware who is a Muslim-American author. It is a science fiction book where the world of Jinns take center stage. Here is the description of the book from its Amazon page. Banished from her clan for being a Muslim, a 400 year-oldContinue Reading