Has anyone read the novel by Ian MacDonald, Cyberabad Days
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aziz
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buzz
Deh putti di creetiores inna mi ear!
Need a laugh? Are you geek enough?
Kirk and super-Muslim Khan get it on I-talian style from Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken. Tutti Gusti!
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aziz
even though Orson Scott Card is a raving Islamophobe, I do intend to re-read Ender’s Game and the new sequel Ender’s Shadow. I’ve got a sci-fi reading list of other books I need to get around to over at Haibane, and would welcome suggestions.
Incidentally, another scifi author with a severe case of jafi-itis is Dan Simmons, author of The Hyperion Chronicles.
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johnpi
Posting this here because Japan is not unique in having a reserved, conservative, gender-segregated culture, and interest in anime has been noted to be high among Muslims elsewhere on this blog, though no one has yet reported this phenomenon among the Muslim anime fan base.
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razib, murtad fitri
section of an interview with sf author john c wright on his christian conversion:
I knew the Christians were evil in theory; I could not explain how so much unique good came from them.Greatly daring, I attempted an experiment in prayer, addressing a Supreme Being I knew with deep certainty did not and could not exist. My prayer was quickly and awfully answered.
A miracle occurred. I suffered a supernatural experience and found all the foundations of my carefully examined and rigidly logical philosophy swept away as if by a tidal wave of blazing and supernal light. A great and powerful spirit visited me.
The whole thing was as simple and astonishing, as easy to explain and as hard to explain, as falling in love.
I am one of those rare creatures whose belief in the supernatural is due to empirical considerations. My mysticism is entirely scientific. Alas, the second step in the experiment, when the miracle occurs, cannot be reproduced before the eyes of skeptics.
