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N Lee Wood’s Looking for the Mahdi

2008-09-17
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
On: September 17, 2008
In: English SF, Islam in SF Literature
With: 1 Comment

The story is set in the fictional Middle Eastern poor country of Khuruchabja. We see the event unfold through the eyes of a female correspondent of a news agency who has disguised herself as a man to roam freely in this strict country. Ten years later when the protagonist isContinue Reading

Ian Watson’s The Emir’s Clock

2008-09-17
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
On: September 17, 2008
In: English SF, Islam in SF Literature
With: 0 Comments

The Emir’s Clock in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fifth Annual Collection: A remarkable clock flashes a message of seemingly divine origin to a young Arab, charging him with the task of creating a new race of intelligent machines. [Synopsis from Fictionwise]

Katie Waitman’s The Divided

2008-09-17
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
On: September 17, 2008
In: English SF, Islam in SF Literature
With: 0 Comments

Two races live on a colonized world in a perpetual state of war. One of the races has a very traditional sort of stereotypical Islamic culture, the other is more western, thought not completely. In the end, they find out they are really tribes that once came from the sameContinue Reading

Pamela Taylor’s The Cathedral

2008-09-17
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
On: September 17, 2008
In: English SF, Islam in SF Literature, SF by Muslims
With: 0 Comments

Published in Citizen Culture Magazine, Feb 2005. A futuristic look at a world where seminaries encourage multiculturalism and the quest for tolerance is taken a step too far. [Entry thanks to Pamela Taylor]

Charles Stross’ Accelerando

2008-09-17
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
On: September 17, 2008
In: English SF, Featured, Islam in SF Literature
With: 0 Comments

The story is set in a post singularity future. Sadeq is a Muslim character and is a prominent secondary character, an imam on a small ship in orbit around Jupiter and asked to adjudicate a very complicated dispute according to Islamic law and is later tempted in a virtual realityContinue Reading

Bruce Sterling’s Globalhead

2008-09-17
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
On: September 17, 2008
In: English SF, Islam in SF Literature
With: 0 Comments

Globalhead is a collection of stories by the famous Science Fiction writer Brice Sterling. Here are a few stories from the collection which have Islamic themes. The Compassionate, the Digital: Written as a speech given by a firebrand Islamic leader; their nation has developed an artificial intelligence named FIRDAUSI, whichContinue Reading

Nick Sagan’s Edenborn

2008-09-17
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
On: September 17, 2008
In: English SF, Islam in SF Literature
With: 0 Comments

Edenborn prominently features a child named Haji of Muslim background who is also a Sufi. He struggles to find God’s will in a complicated future world. [Thanks to John W. for the synopsis and to Jennifer C. for the pointer] Here is an excerpt from a review at Fantasy andContinue Reading

Joanna Russ’ Two of Them

2008-09-17
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
On: September 17, 2008
In: English SF, Islam in SF Literature
With: 0 Comments

Two emissaries from the galactic equivalent of the UN visit an asteroid mining colony inhabited by religiously conservative quasi-Muslims. The conflict in this book centers on a young girl from this society, women rights in Islam, and the potentially greater freedom she might have in the broader galactic society (RussContinue Reading

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy

2008-09-17
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
On: September 17, 2008
In: English SF, Islam in SF Literature
With: 2 Comments

This is a famous hard sci-fi novel about the colonization and terraforming of Mars. It has many Arab, possibly Muslim characters. Sufis are also heavily featured and are portrayed in a very positive and sympathetic light. Here is an excerpt [page 9]: “Then he sat at the central table andContinue Reading

Niven and Pournelle’s The Gripping Hand

2008-09-17
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
On: September 17, 2008
In: English SF, Islam in SF Literature
With: 0 Comments

In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s The Mote in God’s Eye and The Gripping Hand, the character of Horace Bury is a follower of Islam in both books. In the first, he is a very major secondary character, in the second he is one of the major characters. He alsoContinue Reading

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