Thyme travellers: an anthology of palestinian speculative fiction - sonia sulaiman

Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diasporas best voices in speculative fiction.

Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal into realms of history, folklore and futures.

A man stands on the shore waiting to commune with those who live in the ocean.

Pilgrims stretch into the distance, passing a stone cairn with a mysterious light streaming from it.

Two Australian women fervently dig a tunnel to Jerusalem.

Men from Gaza swim in the sea until they drown, still unconcerned.

A father and son struggle to connect over the AI scripts prompting their conversation.

Building on the work of trailblazing anthologies such as Reworlding Ramallah and Palestine +100, this volume is the first of its kind in Canada.

Editor Sonia Sulaiman brings together stories by speculative fiction veterans and emerging writers from Australia to Egypt, Lebanon to Canada.