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With two different young women trying to find their way to Palestine One is an emigrant while the other is a diaspora kid Mel said she liked the discussions on the differences and similarities on how they view and experience their Palestinian ness I liked that their search for Palestine through tunnels and getting lost is a metaphor for Palestine s existence in the future The Third or Fourth Casualty by Ziyad Saadi3 5 starsA group of children swim in the ocean by Gaza s shores. Thyme Travellers booking This is another metaphorical story on children not being able to return to Gaza after dying while swimming Although the writer mentions several times that their deaths aren t relevant.

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But fighting against your programming is always one of my favorite themes in SFF The ending is chef s kiss Sonia Sulaiman In a Nutshell An anthology of Palestinian speculative fiction Focusses on the Palestinian identity as well as the speculative content without losing track of either The OwnVoices writing and the undertone of wistfulness adds to the impact Much recommended to SFF lovers All Palestinian fiction is speculative we are always grappling with the past and living in expectation of the futureThe world as I know it will be a memory by the time you read these words. PDF Thyme travellers rest This anthology of fourteen stories was conceptualized before the latest war began So the above sentences in the editor s note seem even poignant While we know war comes with uncertainty and mayhem.

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Getting anywhere between 2 3. Paranormal Thyme travellers backpack 5 stars These were my top favourites Down Under Jumaana Abdu A strong speculative story that offers an ending but doesn t offer closure The Third Or Fourth Casualty Ziyad Saadi Wish the ending had worked better for me but this was still a powerful story The Generation Chip Nadia Afifi Such a beautiful story of a life not lived to the fullest Excellent blend of fantasy and reality Soul Searching Rana Othman This took an expected pattern of storytelling and made it magically speculative The child narrator s perspective made it even better Cyrano de AI Karl El Koura An interesting look at a world where human interactions are entirely enhanced through AI add ons This might just be the future.

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Rounding up for the theme and the OwnVoices factor My thanks to Roseway Publishing for providing the DRC of Thyme Travellers via NetGalley This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book Connect with me through My Blog The StoryGraph Instagram X Twitter Facebook Sonia Sulaiman I highly recommend this collection both as a timely read that offers a different way into Palestinian literature as well as a memorable speculative short story collection in its own right. Book Thyme travellers rest Full review on the September 3rd All the Books episode Sonia Sulaiman received an ARC from the publisher that I read a while back and am only just now getting around to reviewing because my time management has gotten significantly worse this year yikes truly feel like my brain is breaking down.

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Buddy read with Mel Post read I m very happy to say that I quite liked this anthology The first couple of stories weren t my fave so I was kinda worried that this might not be my thing the previous Palestinian spec fic anthology I read Palestine 100 was just okay. Thyme Travellers kindle reader But I m glad that my reading experience turned out differently I think after the first few stories I got the gist of what the authors were going for ambiguity heavy on the metaphors and leaning towards the fantastical on varying degrees so it was much easier to understand the I read. Thyme Travellers pdf merger Some of my favorites from this collection are The Generation Chip by Nadia AfifiSoul Searching by Rana OthmanCyrano de AI by Karl El KouraGaza Luna by Samah Serour FadilThe Centre of the Universe by Nadia ShammasPre read I fear I might be slightly harsher when it comes to rating speculative short stories than my buddy reader I m of a fan of straightforward hero s journey type of stories and so far these stories are the total opposite So maybe take my reviews with a grain of salt. Thyme Travellers book It s a very metaphorical story which is an obvious red herring Since it s a huge metaphor I m not sure if I understood it correctly Maybe someone else might read it differently. Paranormal Thyme travellers I m not sure if there was any specific word count but if there was the author really used it to their advantage There s a beginning middle and end and there s even a hero s journey of sorts The characters are fleshed out enough that the reader is immersed in the story I d read from Nadia Afifi Soul Searching by Rana Othman5 5 starsYoung Hiba gets an opportunity to atone for her mean girl bullyingI m not usually a fan of grown up stories with little kid characters but I was very surprised by this one It s the typical mean girl learns that bullying is wrong type of trope filled story but I think the Palestinian setting and characters gave it both a realistic and fantastic depth It reads like a modern day fable with a Palestinian twist and I loved it. Fantasy Thyme travellers autobarn I ll admit I don t really understand this one It s very fantasy based and I m definitely not knowledgeable enough to understand any of the cultural references My imagination did love Palestine as a planet the time traveling and the people that the MC met so it wasn t a total bust for me. Book Thyme travellers backpack Just when I thought that this anthology wasn t going to hold my interest here comes another interesting short story But then again I do love stories about augmented humans and I m very intrigued when it comes to learning about how AI whether it s true AI or just generative AI will help or hinder us. Thyme Travellers epub.pub This was also a story about a father and his adult son disconnecting from the digital world for a bit and reconnecting in real life not to mention the son learning from his failures with using AI as a crutch I do love feel good parent child stories. Thyme travellersi I ll be honest I wasn t a fan of this at all There wasn t really a conclusive ending nor was the ending the type of ending that made me think deeply It just felt like your typical thriller on an airplane where the antagonist asks the MC if he wants to take the red pill or the blue pill. Thyme Travellers pdf converter As a lover of time travel stories I should like if not outright love this But it was just okay It was about the two scientists relationship in the first half and the second half suddenly went into overdrive with compare and contrast alternate reality future time travel stuff It felt really disjointed and would ve been better if it was longer. Kindle Thyme travellers autobarn 5 5 starsThe MC a child of Palestinian refugees visits Palestine for the first time I questioned whether I would belong and still that fear eats at me It is my first time here in Palestine I cannot speak the language of my ancestors There is so much I do not yet know as much as I have tried to learn because I was barely raised in my own culture because it was taken from me in the violence of colonialism that pressured my family to erase themselves There is also the fact I am in love with a woman and I cannot help but wonder Will the land love me back in all my queerness It all hangs heavy over my shoulders. Thyme Travellers ebook reader I m always a sucker for stories about people from any diaspora going back to their homeland and learning about their family s past Amidst what s happening this was a really well written and feel good story that hit all the right notes. Book Thyme travellers insurance I quite liked this simple futuristic short You can feel yourself as part of the pilgrimage and everyone is remembering Palestine and the occupation from long ago in their own way The cairns being built and placed feel like a religious rite that places nature above all else And mixing it with memory feels very philosophical. EPub Thyme travellers rest Remembrance in Cerulean by Elise Stephens4 5 starsPaul Thresher a mechanical engineer taking after his father forges a bond with Vezda an alien being who forces him to reconcile with his past. Thyme Travellers pdf drive At first I didn t understand the point of the aliens but I think they re a tool for the MC to understand himself and also might be a metaphor for colonization And maybe humanity s trigger happy reaction to anything that we quickly deem as threats to our survival I m not sure. Thyme travelers conservatory The older I get the I really don t mind fantasy based endings on stories that otherwise read as realistic fiction Sure you really really have to suspend your disbelief here but I loved how the ending was the type of far reaching dream that a smart refugee kid who worked hard his entire life could someday achieve. Thyme travellersi I didn t think I d like this story it felt pointless at first most of us haven t experienced living under a daily threat of death and destruction No wonder fantastical writing is the preferred mode of storytelling for Palestinian authors. Thyme Travellers fantasypros Though speculative there s a strong flavour of Palestine its people and its culture in these stories The pulse of the story is not on the weird but on the real with each tale focussing on the humans and their emotions even though their world isn t the one we necessarily know As every contributing author is from Palestine their writing depicts their innate awareness of the social structure and the political upheavals Many of the tales contain an undertone of hiraeth and of wishful thinking seeking an end to the turmoil and wanting justice to come to Palestine The lengths of the stories differ as do the ages of the central protagonists Some of the stories are on the longer side but they don t feel dragged However a few of the stories were a bit too disjointed for my liking They leaned far too much into the speculative side which my pragmatic head struggles with Those who are bigger fans of SFF might not face a similar issue That said every single one of the tales was imaginative and distinct never creating a feeling of d j vu I can t help contrast this experience with another anthology I read in November last year Embroidered Worlds is also an OwnVoices speculative fiction collection written by writers from yet another war torn nation Ukraine However most of the stories in the Ukrainian collection had no glimpse of Ukrainian culture or beliefs or the politics Instead the focus was solely on the speculative On the contrary this Palestinian collection makes sure that the stories don t lose track of their cultural identity even while exploring the speculative No points for guessing which approach I preferred There is a detailed glossary at the end this book and to my surprise discussion questions as well I have never seen this in any anthology I ve read to date The bio of each contributing author is present at the end I wish these details had been placed immediately after their respective stories this makes it so much easier to know about writers whose work clicked well for us As always I rated the stories individually Of the fourteen stories seven stories reached or crossed the four star mark The rest were varied in performance and if it is I don t think I m looking forward to it Loved the ending The Frontrunner J. Thyme Travellers book D Harlock Started off as a typical story about a psychic warning about potential catastrophe Ended in a totally unexpected way Enjoyed the turn around The Centre of the Universe Nadia Shammas Probably one of the most bizarre stories I have read in my life I just didn t see where it was going I wish there had been detailing at the end On the whole I enjoyed my first flavour of Palestinian fiction and would love to read from the region Here s wishing for a quick resolution to the conflict. Fantasy Thyme travellers beach 5 stars based on the average of my ratings for each tale although whether that s due to my adhd getting worse for whatever reason the psyche crushing weight of watching a thousand global horrors unfold at once including the ongoing and relentless continuation of some of those horrors explored in some of these stories long covid or some other undiagnosed issue is anyone s guess. Thyme Travellers book this is a really solid anthology that seeks in its own small ways to document the thousand uprisings which it is the aim of every good biographer of empire to ignore many but not all of the entries in the collection are explicitly about palestine the stories are all palestinian speculative fiction by virtue of having been written by palestinian including diasporan palestinian writers some of the stories therefore are very direct in their connection to palestine whereas others are subtler. Book Thyme travellers rest my favorite stories of the bunch were the generation chip cyrano de AI and gaza luna definitely worth a read and I also feel moved to add the following when I am forced to hear on a daily basis people who live in my own country threatening violence real or imagined against queer people in an attempt to prevent them from demonstrating support for palestine I feel so grateful to be able to read stories fictional in this case and nonfictional in others about queer palestinians what will you do when palestine is free the book ends with a number of concise calls to action in the authors bios and I appreciated the tying of these small works of fiction to the large real strange horrible beautiful world this collection also drew my attention to the existence of strange horizons palestine special issue from 2021 and for that I am grateful Sonia Sulaiman I am pleased to recommend Thyme Travellers an excellent collection edited by Sonia Sulaiman This collection of short speculative fiction by Palestinian diasporic authors accomplishes so so much in a relatively short page count There are a wide array of speculative motifs here AI alien species space travel and time travel to name a few and there is a range in terms of story length mood tone and themes I appreciate the inclusion queer representation in several stories. Thyme Travellers book Inevitably with a collection one will find certain stories stand out but it is very difficult to choose a few favourites given how consistently strong this one is Several stories have really stuck with me after having finished them I suspect this is a book I ll revisit to re read some stories again. Thyme Travellers paranormal tales I had only read a few of these authors before Emad El din Aysha whose work also appeared in Palestine 100 Nadia Afifi whose novel The Sentient I enjoyed and Sonia Sulaiman whose short fiction I ve read and whom I m happy to call a friend I am looking forward to reading from the authors featured here absolutely recommend this collection wholeheartedly. Thyme Travellers paranormal tales Content warnings violence war murder death death of a parent suicide police brutality classism racism colonization bullyingThank you to Roseway Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC Sonia Sulaiman

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Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora s 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 Thyme Travellers An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative FictionReceived from Edelweiss and the publisher thanks This was such a treat to read Going into it I wasn t really sure what to expect as I m not sure that I ve read a lot of speculative fiction but it was great There was such a great variety of authors and stories and types of stories Some had very blatant things to say about how Palestinians are treated both within Palestine and throughout the world while others were a bit covert. Book Thyme travellers rest I highly recommend this short little collection of stories Sonia Sulaiman I was provided with an ARC through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review CW violence gun violence police brutality colonialism war genocide blood death of a loved one grief bullying injury suicide off page This is a wonderful anthology of short speculative fiction stories written by Palestinian authors from the diaspora that range in length as well as subgenre. Thyme Travellers paranormal tales While some draw attention directly from Palestinian history and culture as well as present times others are subtle in their messaging but each and every piece though vastly different share themes of belonging connection resilience and remembrance. Book Thyme travellers autobarn From considering alternative history to the exploration of different types of technology to characters being touched by magic the level of imagination across this collection is fascinating There were definitely some stories that I connected to less than others but this mostly came down to the fact that they were too short and I was left wishing the authors of those ones had expanded on them a little . Kindle Thyme travellers inc My personal favourite was Nadia Afifi s The Generation Chip but two other standouts which I am not going to forget any time soon were Ziyad Saadi s The Third or Fourth Casualty and Nadia Shammas The Centre of the Universe. EPub Thyme travellers backpack 5 5 Stars Sonia Sulaiman Thank you to Roseway Publishing Columbia University Press and NetGalley for the free e ARC in exchange for an honest reviewOkay who wouldn t love the title the fact that it is speculative fiction written by authors of the Palestinian diaspora You can bet that when I found this gem on NetGalley I clicked the Request button so quickly my hands time thyme travelled aha. Thyme Travellers paranormal tales As with any anthology there are stronger and weaker stories but THYME TRAVELLERS is a welcome addition to the deeply talented pool of Palestinian and Palestinian diaspora writers to keep Palestine on all our minds In the preface editor Sonia Sulaiman makes the interesting note that the call for submissions was made before October 2023 This is worthwhile to know because not all of the stories explicitly touch upon Palestinian culture or issues And that s okay I think Because while every Palestinian is marked by the horror of the Nakba by apartheid and by genocide that is not all that they are The diversity of diaspora Palestinian voices that appear in this anthology reflect that And this is also heartbreaking to think about that there are many Palestinians outside of Palestine than there are who live there I loved that Sulaiman allowed these authors to just run with their ideas and be who they are. Paranormal Thyme travellers rest Some of my favorite stories do address issues of Palestinian oppression or freedom head on For instance my absolute favorite is the first one Down Under in which Jumaana Abdu gives us a taut thriller esque story in which diasporic Palestinians resort to digging a tunnel through the Earth s core to reach Palestine. Thyme Travellers pdf merger In others violence against Palestinians is like an initially shallow cut at the side of your eye that grows into an oozing all consuming sore The Third or Fourth Casualty by Ziyad Saadi is one such deceptively mundane increasingly horrifying tale of a group of boys who swim out to sea for a regular day of fun. Book Thyme travellers beach And some are just writers with Palestinian heritage allowing themselves to write anything they want For instance I quite enjoyed Karl el Koura s Cyrano de AI take on a world in which people wear implants that tell them the best things to say to be the funniest most charming and most empathetic person in the room but I wouldn t go into the story expecting Palestinian ness. Paranormal Thyme travellers inn Definitely get your hands on this quirky and moving little collection if you like short stories featuring diverse voices speculative fiction and a free Palestine Sonia Sulaiman My favourites from this speculative fiction anthology were Down Under by Jumaana Abdu this was captivating and bizarre and I loved it Dig your way to Palestine Yes. Book Thyme travellers insurance The Third or Fourth Casualty by Ziyad Saadi a heart breaking story of boys swimming in the sea an important truth a much needed reminder of what is potentially already happening in real life as I type this. Thyme Travellers paranormal Soul Searching by Rana Othman a sweet magical story involving children riddles a cat and Tata Jameela The Heart Knows the Truth by Layla Azmi Ghoushey dreamy and whimsical and lovely. Thyme Travellers paranormal Remembrance in Cerulean by Elise Stephens I loved what the author created these memory absorbing infusing species of aliens Got an ARC of this book from Netgalley Sonia Sulaiman I think that trying to make short and direct reviews for anthologies is a somewhat difficult task however I will say that Thyme Travelers as a collection of narratives from Palestinian authors is a very poignant and unique compilation Every story delves into the feeling of diaspora the alienation from home and the fear of staying and they all encapsulate those feelings in deep ways Sonia Sulaiman Sonia Sulaiman is a Pushcart nominated BNW and Lammy finalist author She writes short speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore Her work has appeared in ArabLit Quarterly Beladi FANTASY FIYAH Literary Magazine Lackingtons Magazine and Speculatively Queers Xencultivars anthology Sonia Sulaiman is a Pushcart nominated BNW and Lammy finalist author She writes short speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore Her work has appeared in ArabLit Quarterly Beladi FANTASY FIYAH Literary Magazine Lackington s Magazine and Speculatively Queer s Xencultivars anthology site_link .

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