ahmedakhan

My story, "Elevator Episodes in Seven Genres" (first published in Interzone), has been podcasted here:

http://redstonesciencefiction.com/podcasts/RSF_StoryPodcast3_Seven.mp3

Just finished reading Mercedes Lackey's "The Wizard of London". I found the book - in one word - delightful. The book is part of a series but works quite well as a stand-alone novel. This was my first taste of this writer's work but I don't think it will be last.

Just finished reading "Thrones, Dominations", the final episode in the Lord Peter Wimsey canon. Dorothy L. Sayers had started this novel but died without finishing it and the book was very ably finished by Jill Paton Walsh.



So where does "human silliness" mentioned in the title of this post come in?

I had got the book from a second-hand book store. Whoever had read the book before me had meticulously crossed out passages in the book that talked about the killing of a dog. He or she could not bear the thought of a dog dying, but had read merrily along about the killing of a human being.

That, in my books, is silliness - and I am being very charitable.

A reader did not like my story, "A Peace of Sorts" published at Nova SF: http://nova-sf.de/internova/?p=471. I would be curious to know what other readers think about it and would appreciate it if you read it and post your comments (positive or negative) about it at the Nova-SF forum: http://www.scifinet.org/scifinetboard/index.php?showtopic=12590

 My e-anthology, "Another Mosque Among the Stars", is now on sale at Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble and Kobo: borders.bookbrewer.com/content/another-mosque-among-stars

This anthology - as the name suggests - is a follow up on "A Mosque Among the Stars" . It contains my essay on Islamic SF, followed by four of my stories that can be classified as Islamic SF.

 My story, "A Peace of Sorts", is available online at InterNova: http://nova-sf.de/internova/?p=471 

 After exploring ways to define a new sub-genre of speculative fiction - Islamic SF - in two of my earlier articles (linked elsewhere on this journal), and after discussion with other writers and readers, I think I have fine tuned the definition in my article, Islamic SF: An Overview, published today at Inter Nova. 

 Why has there been minimal media coverage of Bahrain? Why has there been no human rights outcry in the world for Bahrain? Why is UN not even talking of intervening the way they did intervene in Libya? How is the Bahrain uprising different from the ones in Egypt and Libya?

http://bhbh.no-ip.org/showthread.php?t=263362

Today is Ashoora, the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram - the day when Muslims (particularly Shias) commemorate the martyrdom of Husain, the grandson of Muhammad (PBUH).

Here is a link to an old post of mine about this day: http://ahmedakhan.livejournal.com/3357.html