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Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal into realms of history, folklore and futures.
A man stands on the shore waiting to commune with those who live in the ocean. Pilgrims stretch into the distance, passing a stone cairn with a mysterious light streaming from it. Two Australian women fervently dig a tunnel to Jerusalem. Men from Gaza swim in the sea until they drown, still unconcerned. A father and son struggle to connect over the AI scripts prompting their conversation.
Building on the work of trailblazing anthologies such as Reworlding Ramallah and Palestine +100, this volume is the first of its kind in Canada. Editor Sonia Sulaiman brings together stories by speculative fiction veterans and emerging writers from Australia to Egypt, Lebanon to Canada.
Sonia Sulaiman writes short speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Her work has appeared in Arab Lit Quarterly, Beladi, FANTASY, FIYAH
Magazine, Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth, Seize the Press, Lackington’s Magazine and Ask the Night for a Dream. Her stories have been nominated for Pushcart, Lammy and Best New Weird awards. In her spare time, she curates the Read Palestinian Spec Fic Reading list. She is also the editor of a collection of short stories, Muneera and the Moon: Stories Inspired by Palestinian Folklore. Visit www.soniasulaiman.com for more details.
Preface : Sonia Sulaiman
Down Under : Jumaana Abdu
The Third or Fourth Casualty : Ziyad Saadi
The Generation Chip : Nadia Afifi
Soul Searching : Rana Othman
The Heart Knows the Truth : Layla Azmi Goushey
Cyrano de AI : Karl El-Koura
The Frontrunner : JD Harlock
A Table Set for Two : Emad Al-Din Aysha
In the Future, We Can Go Back Home : Sara Solara
The Forty : Sonia Sulaiman
Remembrance in Cerulean : Elise Stephens
Gaza Luna : Samah Serour Fadil
Orlando’s Wolf : Rasha Abdulhadi
The Centre of the Universe : Nadia Shammas
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