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The Night Is Not For You: Interview With Eman Quotah

Layla Azmi Goushey

Eman Quotah’s fiction is always engaging, resonant, and thought-provoking. Her nuanced portrayal of individual personalities in ordinary and sometimes extraordinary settings always makes for a great read. I hope you …

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Through a Comedic Glass, Darkly – On Humour, Satire and Alienation in Egyptian (or Arab) Speculative Fiction

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD “I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.” — John le Carré, A Murder …

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Interview – Iranian Speculative Fiction: Authors, Publishers, Comic Book Creators, and the Parallel World of Arabic Science Fiction.

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD

Organized by Emad El-Din Aysha. Emad comments: This is a roundtable discussion among several key players in the world of Iranian science fiction, with some participation from the parallel world …

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The Bullfighter of Bisterne: Part Four

Faisal G. Binzagr
Headline says The Bullfighter of Bisterne Part Four

You are reading a novella in four parts.To read Part One, click here.To read Part Two, click here.To read Part Three, click here. Prelude to Part 4: Your Decision 2030 …

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The Bullfighter of Bisterne: Part Three

Faisal G. Binzagr
Grean and black spider-monstr. Headline says The Bullfighter of Bisterne Part Three

You are reading a novella in four parts. To read Part One, click here. To read Part Two, click here. Prelude to Part III: Another Path 2030 The Oracle shows …

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The Bullfighter of Bisterne: Part Two

Faisal G. Binzagr
Fantasy red dragon. Headline says The Bullfighter of Bisterne Part Two

You are reading a novella in four parts. To read Part One, click here. Prelude to Part II: The Legend of the First Dragon “Let me tell you a story …

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The Bullfighter of Bisterne: Part One

Faisal G. Binzagr
Part One of story - Fantasy figure with horns like a bll. One horn is broken with a bit of blood on the cut. Planets and stars are in the background.

Prologue: Myth of the Maker  Father said: “Let me tell you a story: There is a creation myth, one of many about our Makers, that persists in Paradise. For it …

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Roundtable: Science Fiction Writer Emad El-Din Aysha in Conversation with Latin American Science Fiction Writers

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD
During a gravity assist in 1992, the Galileo spacecraft took images of Earth and the Moon. Separate images were combined to generate this composite which features a view of the Pacific Ocean and Central and South America. NASA/JPL/USGS

Recently, Emad El-Din Aysha, a member of the Egyptian Society for Science Fiction (ESSF) and the Egyptian Writers’ Union, invited seven well-known Latin American science fiction writers to a round …

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A Whole in Time – Arabic Travels between Science, Magic and Romance

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD
The Hour of Time book cover. A pale green circle with swirls inside on a darker greeen background

There’s no real objection to escapism, in the right places… We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism; in fact, you might say …

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THE GREAT RAINFALL OF SYDNEY

Eva
photo of girl looking out the window at the rain

There was once a town named Sydney and it was known for how beautiful the views were. It was the number one place for travelers to visit. There was a …

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