The Speculative Route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa [Paperback]

The Speculative Route explores speculative traditions and science fictional modes across South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (SSWANA), examining their historical connections, inter and intra-regional entanglements, overlaps, and differences.?

The Speculative Route?is a wide-ranging exploration of science fiction from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. It connects the marvelous literatures of countries like India, Iran and Egypt, while reaching deep into imagined pasts and possible futures. Merve Tabur and Sami Ahmad Khan will take you on a fantastic voyage across time and space, opening up exciting new worlds along the way.
J?rg Matthias Determann,?Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and author of Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life
The Middle East and South Asia have been talking to each other since antiquity, a conversation expressed through trade, conflict, exchanges of knowledge and culture, and perhaps most importantly, stories that express dreams of desired worlds. That conversation has been interrupted  but not shut down  by colonialism. Now, this volume creates a space for these two regions to resume the conversation in the realm of the utopic imagination, examining both similarity and difference across linguistic, nationalist and oppressed-oppressor boundaries, and opening the door to further cross-pollination. The speculative imagination of the Middle East and South Asia, as revealed through scholarly works and insightful think-pieces by writers from these regions, is polyphonic, kaleidoscopic and alive. An invaluable contribution to the literature on collective dreaming for a desired world.
Vandana Singh,?speculative fiction writer and physicist.
This anthology of essays, carefully edited by Merve Tabur and Sami Ahmad Khan, not only addresseslƒ#