Anarchy of Dreams

· Simon and Schuster
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The sparks of revolution set an entire generation ship ablaze in the cinematic conclusion to Mahmud El-Sayed’s Arabfuturist debut The Republic of Memory.

The Safina is a city ship trapped in dark space. Two hundred years into its voyage from the ruins of Earth, two hundred years from its destination of the garden world Hurriya whose very name means freedom, the crew stand on the precipice of revolution.

With protest gaining pace in the ship’s public squares and Security resorting to increasing violence to stop it, each member of the crew must decide who they are and what side they stand on. However in the bowels of the ship, the final remnants of Earth’s doomed Network Empire have been awoken from cryo-stasis and they are less than pleased to discover all the changes their descendants have wrought whilst they slumbered.

And some of them want to change things back.

Inspired by the real-world events of the Arab Spring, The Anarchy of Dreams is the concluding part of The Song of the Safina duology, an audacious examination of post-colonial politics and an intrepid meta-modernist journey into the heart of revolution.

The Song of the Safina
The Republic of Memory
The Anarchy of Dreams
The sparks of revolution set an entire generation ship ablaze in the cinematic conclusion to Mahmud El-Sayed’s Arabfuturist debut The Republic of Memory. The Safina is a city ship trapped in dark space. Two hundred years into its voyage from the ruins of Earth, two hundred years from its destina...

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About the author

Mahmud El Sayed is a British Egyptian science fiction and fantasy writer and translator. A former journalist, he won the 2023 Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Color for his work focusing on Arabic and Islamic-inspired themes in a genre he is calling Arabfuturism. He lives in East London where he spends his time pondering linguistic oddities and running story ideas by his cat.
Mahmud El Sayed is a British Egyptian science fiction and fantasy writer and translator. A former journalist, he won the 2023 Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Color for his work focusing on Arabic and Islamic-inspired themes in a genre he is calling Arabfuturism. He ...

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