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The first story on this collection is great (about futuristic American soldiers entering Hell (literally) during an incursion in Iraq), but this theme of violence and Islam is hammered on several other stories on different settings throughout the book. Mostly to indoctrinate the readers that Islam is not violent, but the idea after reading this collection is that it is, in the past and in the future and the nice Western people have to "deal" with it. I was expecting more, but then again, most of...
Lo descubrí interesado y lo acabo horrorizado. Esto es una colección de historias CF con el Islam como hilo que las cose. Una idea prometedora.Lo malo: escritas casi todas por no musulmanes. Y sin ninguna gracia. Como si Islam fuera una palabra más. El interés caería a cero si no fuera por Sinchronicity, de Ahmed Khan, único musulmán. Su visión es ditinta y desde dentro, y eso salva el libro de la más medianísma mediocridad. O peor, ya que va de lo totalmente obviable (A Walk in the Garden, de S...
Only recently have I started looking in to science fiction that mentions Islam and Muslims in a positive light which is just a handful of books globally. But I am glad I made this anthology my first read! It is phenomenal!! Blows your mind at how awesome the mixing of science and religion is!!!! I recommend it as a must read for everyone!!!! This is definitely on the same level as the great SF writers!!! If you have not read this awesomeness then you have not lived !!!!!
A somewhat uneven collection of stories that involve muslims. Told from both the muslim and non-muslim viewpoint, the stories range from the very light (a Pakistani cricketer who changes the world) to the very heavy (a planned terrorist attack on a spaceship) in tone. The book starts and ends with well-written tales by Lucius Shepard and Tom Ligon.- "A Walk Through the Garden" by Lucius Shepard: a group of American soldiers is set on a mission; to explore an unusual cave opened up in a mountain
1st story wasn't all that, so i'm a bit dubious, but i'll give it a few more stories before I give up.ETA: none of the first 4 stories grabbed me at all, so i'm giving up on this. I just don't think the writing (from a story/structure point of view) is terribly good.
Very interesting stories, that make me wonder how much ethnicity and environment and religion/religiousness changes the perspective and way of writing of SciFi stories and books. I'd love to read more Islamic and also Arabian SciFi.
What I've read of this is good, not really all my type of stores, but good. However my copy is a pdf which is really hard to read. Up buy a proper ereader version of this soon.
"A Mosque Among The Stars" was a perplexing compilation in every possible sense. Editor's note portrays it as a "project" rather than a literary product; sort of a publishing that aims to present Islam and Muslims from an unbiased, positive perspective to SF readers in Western world. However, the pieces that form this collection are so incoherent, inconsistent and sometimes irrelevant that I can hardly believe that they contributed to that goal; let alone meld into a well-written SF story collec...
A great and worthwhile read. It is so refreshing to not only see Muslim characters in positive roles but also to read stories that contain decent Muslim characters, for no particular reason other than the fact that they enrich the story telling.
I was extremely disappointed in this anthology, though I suppose I should blame myself- what should I have expected in a bunch of stories semi-centering Islam and Muslims but written by predominately non-Muslims? Typical Orientalism with a sci-fi flavor is what you should expect. For instance- a woman who "punishes" herself by pretending to be a Muslim and marrying a Muslim man, really I should have quit there but since the first inclusion, Lucius Shepard's A Walk in the Garden, was so well writ...
The concept for this anthology was really great, and when it worked it was amazing - but only a very few of the authors managed to execute well. Also, what was with the overwhelming focus on the outsider view? I got tired of the Muslim characters being the strange Other that we saw via the “normal” protagonist’s eyes.
