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This episode, featuring Dr. Somaiya Daud, author of Mirage and its forthcoming sequel, Court of Lions (out August 4, 2020), first aired August 28, 2018. Check out the cover reveal from Court of Lions and read an excerpt at Tor.com, as well as a conversation between Somaiya and I about how the theme of lost cultures functions in the book.
Somaiya has also answered questions on a February 28, 2020 mailbag episode, and was featured on the July 5, 2014 episode (the very first First Draft episode ever).
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode
Throughout her writing career Somaiya’s writing become more genre forced aka more “J. R. R. Tolkien and less William Gibson.”
When cosplaying form the Victorian era they say that no one would cosplay Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens you would cosplay Emma by Jane Austen
Somaiya did her Masters thesis on The Arabian Nights by Muhsin Mahdi (Editor), Husain Haddawy (Translator)
Somaiya’s dissertation is on Historiography and Translation Theory
Chelsea Grimmer is the host of The Poetry Vlog, a show in which people discuss poetry and pop culture
Somaiya Daud on The Poetry Vlog where she talked about how Science Fiction is studied academically versus how it is perceived in pop culture
Provincializing Europe by Dipesh Chakrabarty, talks about the ways in which Europe’s idea of modernization was in part built on the idea that the rest of the world was caught in a historical waiting land
Somaiya read Consorts of the Caliph by Ibn Al-Sa’i when implementing poetry into the Mirage
Joanna Volpe,President and literary agent at New Leaf Literary agency
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