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Category: science fiction

December 13, 2020December 9, 2020 mlynxqualey Palestine, science fiction, speculative fiction

Sunday Submissions: ‘Strange Horizons’ Call for Palestinian Speculative Fiction

They are open for submissions through January 31, 2021.

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 mlynxqualey abolitionist futurism, science fiction, speculative fiction

Afro, Indigenous, and Palestinian Futurisms: Writing Across Space and Time

This is where M. Asli Dukan has arrived in her own work, as she moves away from the label of Afrofuturism towards a more unifying vision, what she has started to call “abolitionist futurisms.”

December 9, 2020 mlynxqualey Egypt, science fiction

Egyptian Sci Fi Novelist Nabil Farouk Dies at 64

"His daughter, Reham Farouk, announced that he had died of a heart attack."

November 5, 2020November 4, 2020 mlynxqualey Egypt, film adaptations, genre fiction, science fiction

‘Paranormal Will Always Have a Special Place in My Heart’

"Before that, I had read the Arabic translation of the Goosebumps novels, and I knew that I loved horror fiction, but for me this was better -- maybe it was the Egyptian environment, characters, and atmosphere that made it familiar and yet outlandish."

November 5, 2020November 4, 2020 mlynxqualey Egypt, film adaptations, genre fiction, science fiction

Birthing the Ugly Hero: Dr. Refaat Ismail

"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."

November 5, 2020November 4, 2020 mlynxqualey Egypt, film adaptations, genre fiction, science fiction

Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, ‘Genius’

"So he tore up the manuscript and decided to start again. In my opinion, it was the best decision he could’ve made, as the resulting novel was a masterpiece."

November 5, 2020November 4, 2020 mlynxqualey Egypt, film adaptations, genre fiction, science fiction

Ahmed Khaled Tawfik and ‘Paranormal’

Today, Netflix is releasing the series Paranormal, based on the ما وراء الطبيعة books by beloved Egyptian novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik. We look back at the man (1962-2018) and the impact his books had on young readers.

November 4, 2020November 3, 2020 mlynxqualey Egypt, science fiction, short stories

‘The Morning After the End of the World’

Tonight it’s the end of the world.

July 30, 2020July 29, 2020 mlynxqualey Saudi, science fiction

Jeddah Bids to Host World Sci Fi Convention

Literary events honoring and hosted by Saudi Arabia attract perhaps the most objections from authors and publishers.

June 25, 2020June 24, 2020 mlynxqualey Palestine, science fiction

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."

June 14, 2020June 13, 2020 mlynxqualey science fiction, speculative fiction, submissions

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."

February 3, 2020February 1, 2020 mlynxqualey science fiction

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.”

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