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
آدمی سنجیدہ ہو کر کیا کرے جب کہ وہ جانتا ہے کہ ایک دن اسے اپنی سنجیدگی سمیت دفن ہوجانا پڑے گا۔ Translation: Why should man ever become serious when he knows full well that one day he will be buried along with his seriousness? (Ibne Safi) Asrar Ahmad, betterContinue Reading
The third post in this series is what would be considered unintentional superhero science fiction coming from Pakistan. While Pakistan is currently working on its first superhero movie these instances are less than serious. It appears that Spiderman has become pretty popular these days in Pakistan. Here is Spiderman gettingContinue Reading
Day 2: Sparx is a concept short movie from Pakistan directed by Waqar Quereshi who is a student at the University of Central Punjab.
Lets start the first day of Pakistani Science Fiction with alternate history. There are movies which are bizarre and then there are movies which lie at the border of being bizarre and being socially conscious. The film was released in 1986 and starred leading actors of Pakistani Cinema at theContinue 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
Ibn Safi is the pen name of Asrar Ahmad (1928-1980) who was a legendary and prolific Urdu fiction writer from Pakistan. He is one of the better known Science Fiction writers of Urdu, although his mostly famous for writing crime fiction and spy novels. He mostly famous for his worksContinue Reading
Kolachi Trailer Techistan has the scoop on an upcoming Science Fiction Movie from Pakistan called Kolachi. The movie was conceived by Summer Nicks who is originally from Australia but is now based is Pakistan. The movie is being produced by Summer Nicks, Meher Jaffri and Craig Peter Jones, and itContinue Reading