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Stories to Captivate the Imagination: Welcome to the worlds of Saladin Ahmed

A medieval physician asked to do the impossible. A gun slinging Muslim wizard in the old West. A disgruntled super villain pining for prison reform. A cybernetic soldier who might or might not be receiving messages from God. Prepare yourself to be transported to new and fantastical worlds.

The short stories in this collection have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards. They’ve been reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and other anthologies, recorded for numerous podcasts, and translated into several foreign languages. Now they are collected in one place for the first time. Experience for yourself the original voice of one of fantasy’s rising stars!

PRAISE FOR SALADIN AHMED
“Ahmed’s characters…are a terrific blend of the realistic and the awesomely magical.” — io9

“[Ahmed is] revitalizing the fantasy genre with fresh perspectives and original stories.” — Library Journal

“Ahmed’s debut masterfully paints a world both bright and terrible.“ — Publishers Weekly

“An arresting, sumptuous and thoroughly satisfying debut.” — Kirkus Reviews

STORIES IN THIS ANTHOLOGY
Where Virtue Lives
Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela
Judgment of Swords and Souls
Doctor Diablo Goes Through the Motions
General Akmed’s Revenge?
Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride
The Faithful Soldier, Prompted
Iron Eyes and the Watered Down World

OTHER WORKS BY SALADIN AHMED
Throne of the Crescent Moon (DAW, 2012)

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009CVYQG2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ridan Publishing (19 Sept. 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 234 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 94 pages

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Saladin Ahmed's THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. His first comic, BLACK BOLT, won the Will Eisner award. His original horror comic ABBOTT was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and was a Michigan Notable Book. Saladin currently writes the Marvel comics MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN and THE MAGNIFICENT MS. MARVEL. He lives near Detroit.

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Jehangir

Fantasy and Sci-Fi With a Middle Eastern Flavour

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 December 2019

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While Arabian culture weaves its way through all of the stories, that’s where the stories' similarities end. The settings vary from alternate and magic-filled worlds, the familiar and present day and a future-based Earth. The the main characters include a demon hunter, a hermit married to demoness, a Dervish swordswoman hell-bent on keeping her promise to her dying mother, a group of supercriminals who aren’t the sharpest tools in the toolbox, a typecast Arabic actor working on a US filmset, a gunslinging bounty hunter, a cybernetic soldier in search of medication for his sick wife and a mercenary who makes an unexpected discovery.
The author’s breadth of voice across all eight stories is impressive. Each story introduced me to a very different narrator and their unique point of view. That’s great writing!
My favourite story in this collection is Where Virtue Lives, in which we meet again (if you’ve already read Throne of the Crescent Moon) Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, the best ghul hunter in Dhamsawaat. While the story is about Makhslood searching for a newlywed abducted by a water ghul, it also tells of how the gul hunter met the Dervish, Raseed bas Raseed. All the other stories come a close second.
If you like your fantasy and sci-fi with a Middle Eastern flavour, I’d give this short story collection a go.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 March 2017

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Engraved on the Eye is a very different short fantasy/sci-fi collection than anything I have previously read, it is astonishingly brilliant and makes you think whilst enjoy the stories.

The main event for me was 'Where Virtue Lies' as it is an introduction to characters in the Throne of the Crescent Moon novel, the characters are fantastic in the fact that they have their flaws but you can't help but love and root for them.

The range of the types of short stories was impressive and shows how talented a writer Saladin Ahmed is. The Arabic culture weaved into each story is very enjoyable and includes mythical creatures that are not widely used such as Ghuls.

Saladin Ahmed isn't afraid to make the reader feel something, every one of the stories awakes an emotion in the reader.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone, just anyone!

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Imajicaman

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 April 2016

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An excellent first collection of short stories. I enjoyed all of these stories that range from 3 to 5 star ratings and I found them to be all enjoyable. The collection is an ebook exclusive, there isn't (so far at least) a physical edition available unfortunately. I am a big fan of Saladin Ahmed's novel, 'The Throne Of The Crescent Moon' and I am really looking forward to reading the sequel. Anybody else who feels the same way may also really enjoy this collection whilst we wait for that second novel set in The Crescent Moon Kingdoms.

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JLH

Just get it and read it, already. What are you waiting for?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 16 July 2016

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An almost ridiculously enjoyable collection of short stories, ranging far and wide across fantasy and even a little science fiction. None of these were a chore to read, and even the weaker (a *very* relative term here) entries were more than worth the investment of time required to read them. "Where Virtue Lives" would seem to be a prequel to Ahmed's THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON, a novel I haven't yet read but, based on this sampler, I certainly shall. Hard to choose a favourite but, if pushed, I suspect "The Faithful Soldier, Prompted" will stay with me for a good while. In conclusion, this is top notch SFF writing and the collection is currently free, so why wouldn't you get it? Putting it on your Kindle is the very definition of a "no-brainer."

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Mr. T. O. Womack

Decent short story collection

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 March 2013

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A series of short stories all with a bit of a whiff of the role-playing campaign about them: some nice magic systems derived from combinations of Quranic traditions and the Arabian Nights. A pleasant humanity to many of the conclusions, I particularly recommend Hooves and the Hovel of Abdul Jameela.

Most of these are legitimately available on-line, at least during award-nomination season, but Saladin is an emerging author worthy of your support

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A brilliant collection

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 September 2017

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I am not a great lover of short story collections but the few i read are generally very good, this is a brilliant collection by a previously unknown author to me, but who on this evidence I will look to read more.
Action adventure humour love menace suspense these stories have all that and more, imaginative well written, all with engaging well drawn characters. Each story in this fantasy collection grabs from the first line, and I heartily recommend this book.

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Bookwyrm

Nothing else quite like it out there!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 March 2014

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A brilliant collection of short stories showing tantalising vingettes with a decidedly Arabic flavour. After reading these stories, I had to buy Throne of the Crescent Moon which picks up and continues with the adventures of Doctor Adoulla Makhslood and Raseed bas Raseed which we first meet in the short story 'Where Virtue Lives'. My second favourite short story is 'Judgement of Swords and Souls' concerning the Dervish Layla bas Layla.

Saladin Ahmed's writing style is clear, invocative and brings the Arabian flavour of the mythologies and characters in these stories to life. Heartily recommended.

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HF or SF

Lovely descriptions of folklore that I knew nothing about, full of beauty and mysticism.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 April 2015

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Great short stories with some characters of interest that can be read (I believe) in a new series by the same author.

Lovely descriptions of folklore that I knew nothing about, full of beauty and mysticism. A great introduction to the author and the characters!

Highly recommended.

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