Literary events honoring and hosted by Saudi Arabia attract perhaps the most objections from authors and publishers.
Drones and Clones: Mapping Palestinian Sci Fi with Lindsey Moore
"I’m very interested in the manipulation of temporality -- or rather, as I’ve suggested, time-space configuration -- that we see in Palestinian SF across different media."
Sunday Submissions: Speculative Fiction in Translation
"We value expanding our perceptions, whether through reading narratives or poems from under-represented groups, or through you sharing insight. We are open to unusual yet readable styles, inventive structures and narratives, and works that address political issues in complex and nuanced ways, resisting oversimplification."
New Fiction in Translation: ‘An Unusual Visitor,’ by Ahmed Salah Al Mahdi
Then one of the team came up with the craziest idea: “It looks like the virus came from the future.”
An Excerpt of ‘Malaz: City of Resurrection’
SF, fantasy, and YA author-translator Ahmed Samah Al-Mahdi shares a chapter from his novel Malaz.
The Ruins of the Future: Speculative Fiction in Arabic
"Science fiction is both a mode of engagement and act of resistance by those who are continually cast as alien in their homeland."
The Prescience of a 2001 Egyptian SF Novel: ‘America 2030’
The novel paints a portrait of a dystopian future for the United States, where the mafia take over the political system and places one of their operatives in the White House, transforming the bastion of liberty and democracy into a tyranny that practices gangsterism on a global scale.
In Memoriam: Ahmed Khalid Tawfik, the Man and the Mission
"When Rifaat Ismail died in the novellas, it caused a sensation on the internet. Fans on social media websites made a de facto protest march online, complaining that the man still had plenty of life in him and that the author should have kept him going for at least another 10 years."
Sunday Submissions: ‘Takwin’: Magazine of Islamicate Science Fiction
"The magazine will be published online, with the first issue set to appear January 1, 2019."
Safia Ketou: The First Algerian Sci-fi Novelist of Post-independence Algeria
For Women in Translation Month, our Algeria editor writes about one of her favorite discoveries, whose La Planète Mauve et Autres Nouvelles should certainly be brought into English By Nadia Ghanem In six years of rummaging through Algerian literature, Safia Ketou’s sci-fi story "The Mauve Planet" remains my favorite find. Born Zohra Rabhi in 1944, Safia Ketou wrote … Continue reading Safia Ketou: The First Algerian Sci-fi Novelist of Post-independence Algeria
Friday Finds: Cairokee Issues a Song in Memory of Egyptian Author Ahmed Khaled Towfik
The video has already garnered more than 330,000 views, a testament to the popularity of Egypt's godfather of genre.
‘Using Life’ Among Finalists of First-ever Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards
There will be two awards: one for a debut work, and the other for an established author in the genre of speculative fiction. Each award winner will receive $5,000.
