Enter a Big Archive of Wonderful Tales, the World’s First Science Fiction Journal, Launched in 1926

If you happen to haven’t heard of Hugo Gerns­again, you’ve certain­ly heard of the Hugo Award. Subsequent to the Neb­u­la, it’s probably the most pres­ti­gious of sci­ence fic­tion prizes, convey­ing togeth­er in its ranks of win­ners such ven­er­a­ble authors as Ursu­la Okay. Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Hein­lein, Neil Gaiman, Isaac Asi­mov, and nearly…

How the Thirteenth-Century Sufi Poet Rumi Turned One of many World’s Most Fashionable Writers

The Mid­dle East is tough­ly the world’s most har­mo­nious area, and it solely will get extra frac­tious for those who add in South Asia and the Mediter­ranean. However there’s one factor on which many res­i­dents of that vast geo­graph­i­cal span can agree: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥam­mad Rūmī. One would possibly at first imag­ine {that a} thir­teenth-cen­tu­ry…