Great news for lovers of Urdu Literature, Khurshid Iqbal, a critic and researcher from India, has a masters thesis on Science Fiction in Urdu Literature. The text itself is in the Urdu language but I am hoping that an English translation would be available in the near future. It startsContinue Reading
Izhar Asar (1929-2011) was an Urdu Science Fiction author from India. At the time of the partition of India he moved from what later became Pakistan to India. It was a rare move since most of the movement of Muslims was in the other direction. Starting from 1950s onwards heContinue Reading
Jim Walker has an excellent article on Urdu Science Fiction at the Science Fiction foundation which mentions the following Science Fiction novels in Urdu. Ishtiaq Ahmed’s Machini Makhlooq (Mechanical Creatures) 1986 Agha Ashraf’s Ba’ghi Computer (The Rebel Computer) 1988. A Hameed has also written a number of Science Fiction Novels.