Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction edited by Sonia Sulaiman
English | September 5, 2024 | ISBN: 1773636944 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 2.2 MB
English | September 5, 2024 | ISBN: 1773636944 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 2.2 MB
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.