Science Fiction Series – EWANA Center

Ganzeer (Muḥammad Fahmy, ?, Egypt) – The Solar Grid (2016-). Story of this serialized graphic novel is set far into the future when the world has been sucked dry by the inhabitants of the global North, who have migrated to the plains of Mars, and whose corporations mine the clouds of Earth for remaining stores of moisture. The series is “a warning against uninhibited capitalist greed, failures to address climate change, obsession with celebrity culture, the suppression of dissent, and the powerful nexus of billionaire corporation and policy makers” (reference) (also in in N: Nature: Climate Change).

Rājī ʿInāyat (1929 – 2020, Egypt) published several science fiction series and novels. In Safīnat al-Faḍāʾ al-Malʿūnah wa Qiṣaṣ Ukhrā (‘The damned spaceship and other stories’, 1982), for example, strange creatures have infiltrated a spaceship, which has just completed a scientific mission on the surface of Venus. The creatures are capable of occupying human bodies, preserving their appearance and vital functions, and taking over their minds. Dr. Krāfūrd, the spaceship’s doctor, has to face these conspiring malicious beings, who are lurking the eight members of the mission while they head back to Earth (reference).

Nabīl Fārūq (1956 – 2020, Egypt) – Milaff al-Mustaqbal (‘The future file’, 1984 – 2009). This series of Egyptian SF detective novels, that include 160 titles, have a patriotic nature and depicts the crew ‘High Command of Egyptian Scientific Intelligence’, which works for the “protection of the scientific secrets that are the guarantee for the progress of nations” (reference).

Sharīf Shawqī (1955-, Egypt) – al-Maktab Raqam 19 (‘Missions section No. 19’). Hero of the series is the Lieutenant Colonel Mamdūḥ ʿAbd al-Waḥāb, who belongs to a special crew investigating mysterious crimes that take place in the realm of the fantastical (reference).

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