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by Saladin Ahmed on Friday, January 29th, 2010 14:13

This is the website of fantasy writer and poet Saladin Ahmed. My fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Campbell, and Harper’s Pen awards, and has appeared in Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Drabblecast, PodCastle, and Expanded Horizons. My poetry has earned fellowships from the University of Michigan, Brooklyn College, and the Bronx Council on the Arts, and has appeared in over a dozen journals and anthologies including Callaloo, The Brooklyn Review, Big City Lit, Inclined To Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry, and Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry. My first novel, THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON, is forthcoming from DAW Books. To check out my writing, please see my bibliography. If you’d like to learn more about me, head over to my biography page. You can also get in touch with me on Facebook , LiveJournal, and Twitter, or via email at saladinahmed [at] hotmail [dot] com. Thanks for dropping by!

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1 • Alan Kellogg said:
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:12 pm, permalink

Greetings your self. Found your site via Blake Charlton and thought I’d drop in and say hello.

Since you have an interest in Islamic fantasy I thought I’d let you know about Thomas Harlan’s Oath of Empire. In it a Meccan merchant by the name of Mohammed becomes lover to Queen Zenobia of Palmyra, prophet of God, and stand in for Gandalf the Grey. There’s a lot more to it than that, but that’s the gist of it.

It actually reads a lot better than my description of it, and by and large Thomas’ treatment of Mohammed is a sympathetic one.

BTW, I have read your Doctor Diablo story and enjoyed it. Too bad DD and friend can’t see past their current situation. And speaking of Doctor D’s situation, you ever play the RPG “Life with Master”?

Hope you’re doing well, and your projects are going as they should.

2 • Saladin said:
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:35 pm, permalink

Thanks for dropping by, Alan, and for the kind words. I’d never heard of Harlan’s books or the RPG. Both look…interesting.