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Pakistanis are hungry for new kinds of fiction and their response to recent stories show that they really want it. Author Usman T Malik, author of Midnight Doorways and the only Pakistani to have won a Bram Stoker Award, said this at a webinar titled Discussion on Pakistan Science Fiction on Tuesday. It was organised by American Pakistan Foundation and moderated by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, editor of the Islam and Sci-Fi project. “Pakistani science fiction has been historically non-existent, except for a few writers,” Usman said. “Ismat Chughtai’s Roshni Ka Safar, which is sort of a time travel story, is a good example of early science fiction. Whereas, writers like Manto and Mumta.
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Pakistanis
are hungry for new kinds of fiction and their response to recent stories show
that they really want it.
Author Usman T Malik, author of
Midnight Doorways and the only Pakistani to have won a Bram Stoker Award, said this at a webinar titled
Discussion on Pakistan Science Fiction on Tuesday. It was organised by American Pakistan Foundation and moderated by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, editor of the Islam and Sci-Fi project.