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The Kickstarter for our Vikings and Muslims anthology is live. Be sure to back the project and spread the word. Its your chance to get a copy of the book and contribute to making this oft neglected but fascinating topic a reality kickstarter.com/projects/13305…

Posting after a while, checking it folks are still around. Working a revamping the website and a new anthology!

Chandrasekera brings something distinctly Sri Lankan to the genre [of speculative fiction]. When it comes to violence and power – two constitutive themes of modern fantasy – “The Saint of Bright Doors” is firmly rooted in the particular. @gautambhatia88: himalmag.com/contemporary-s…

@MatthewHarffy Do you mean could one replace al-Wadi ‘l-kabir with al-Wadi al-kabir?

A couple of examples: al-Wadi ‘l-kabir Abu Jafar Yusuf ibn Sa'īd al-Zarqālluh Could the ‘ in al-Wadi ‘l-kabir be replaced by a ' ? I want to get this right, so any help much appreciated! 3/3

#Arabic speakers! I need your help! In my newest book Hunlaf travels to Al-Andalus. As a result there are lots of Arabic names for people, places and things. My copy editor is asking about the use of what look like apostrophes and open speech marks in certain words. 1/?

@boysinthecave @Biblioventurer @vonaurum would be glad to talk

@Biblioventurer @IslamSciFi @vonaurum Oh wow great suggestion!

@EvanSelinger @Jacob_Brogan This should be printed by a 3D printer in Gold and enshrined at the entrance of Computer History Museum in Mountain View

@Jacob_Brogan “Whereof one cannot tweet, thereof one must be silent." (Tweetatus 7)

"He experienced his sexuality as a burden, too, writing elliptically about any possible relations with men ... Sometimes commentary on work and sex would run together." nytimes.com/2022/04/06/boo…

Ramadan Mubarak to all species celebrating #RamadanMubarak

@TheOdalisque with thr multiverse part of DCEU thry can theoretically bring back such a Batman

Scratch that. I am very much over all superheroes, serious or not. But 1960s Batman is camp and thereby in a league of its own.

I long for the days of this Batman. I am so tired of Serious Superheroes.

@fabiofernandes sending love, prayers and positive thoughts

@JoshMGillingham @bjornlarssen @BGuiton @vonaurum that puts it rights at the beginning of the Abbasid era. Cool!

@bjornlarssen @BGuiton 😯😯😯 @vonaurum @IslamSciFi

@bjornlarssen phys.org/news/2021-12-d…

@Moni_R_Syed @jalalayn can you please share the reference on South American Muslims?

@jalalayn It’s a discussion that’s being had by my extended family members whom are concerned about their future generations many of my family and others oblivious to the facts. I read recently of a research done on Muslim immigration to South America the findings were very worrying.

Where I am currently living in Istanbul, there are Muslims that have recently arrived from all over the western world, Britain, France, US, Germany, to start a new life - when I ask them why they decided to move? They all respond “because of our children”.

@NaokiQYamamoto @MohamedGhilan Better late than never. There is still time.

I believe that if Islam had established itself as a traditional religion in Japan, the tea ceremony would have become the most important practice of Japanese Sufis.

@MENALibAHS After reading this tweet, The first day of school song from Cocomelon is stuck in my head now

@musafurber Hypothetical Sci-Fi question: Would the definition of neighbor extend to interstellar space i.e., neighbors of humanity?

@HilalAsyraf @musafurber Thank you for connecting. I will follow up via email as well

@musafurber @IslamSciFi thank you sir!

One of the reasons I love and support the idea of Muslims writing speculative fiction with an Islamic bent is the hope that some will dream about futures where Islam matters instead of the present where the powers that be do their best to render Islam mute and moot. /1

@ElegantiaeArbit Islam was numerically the third largest religion in the world in 1910

What lesson to take from this I don’t know. But it’s an interesting quirk of history that people often forget.

Orientalist and anti-Muslim tropes portray Muslims as an innumerable eastern Horde. Muslims have internalized this portrayal that our numbers are a source of strength. But historically, the global Muslim population wasn’t particularly large, and Muslim lands pretty sparse.

Perhaps Terminator got it wrong. The machine revolution has started in Pakistan #RiseOftheMachines #AI

@Fjorn_the_Skald @OutlandEnt @IslamSciFi

Our Kickstarter project is fully funded! Alhamdulilah. There are still 12 hours to contribute to the project to get your own copy of the anthology. Althingi kickstarter.com/projects/13305…

@bjornlarssen @JoshMGillingham @OutlandEnt Thanks!!!

WE ARE FUNDED!! Huge shout out to all the 250 backers that are bringing Althingi: The Crescent & the Northern Star to life! @OutlandEnt @IslamSciFi #Vikings #Muslims kickstarter.com/projects/13305…

@JoshMGillingham @bjornlarssen @OutlandEnt Cooooool

"I just finished reading and the book has a fatal flaw – it ends." -@bjornlarssen 90% Funded! Join the expedition and back Althingi: The Crescent & the Northern Star! @OutlandEnt @IslamSciFi