Arabic Sci-Fi on Reading Menu for This Week

'Ajwan' by Noura Al Noman: (أجوان)


This science fiction novel by Emirati writer Noura Al Noman, is about Ajwan, an alien whose planet has just been destroyed, and her people wiped out. Alone, with no family or friends, she is now a refugee moving from planet to planet trying to survive.

By nature a peace loving species, Ajwan now finds herself having to break many of her kinds' ways in order to survive and protect her most precious possession, especially when she falls in with a dangerous, armed organisation intent solely on destruction.

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'Paradise on Earth' (جنة على الارض) by Fadi Zaghmout

This sci fi novel, about four friends, is set in a time where technological advancements have reached an all time high: eternal youth is no longer the stuff of dreams, lives can be re-lived, and loved ones can be cloned.

This novel by Jordanian Fadi Zaghmout touches upon what happens to humanity and humans when they can live forever.

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