# Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

**Author**: 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.

**Posts about this title from Fairly Queer Books**

**Fareeha** • Jan 7

Hello and happy new year,
I hope you’re all doing well! This isn’t a long post but I was too excited not to make this.

Bindery has a new feature where you can request a specific title and it comes straight to me with a cute little postcard. I had no idea this feature came out or I would have already answered them. If you sent in a request, the recs are below!

As a former bookseller, I genuinely miss recommending randomly specific titles and it’s quite fun racking my brain for book knowledge, especially great when we find the right one. This is a beta feature so I’m not sure yet the best way to answer these.

### Recommendations:

- **Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir**
  This one is going to be adapted later this year and from everything I hear it’s a very good pick for a book club.

- **A Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez**
  This standalone fantasy follows a guard full of regret and an outcast fighting for self-value.

The second request was from Kaith (ig: @kaithisms).

- **Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072**
  A unique scifi book, imagining a world beyond the dystopian narrative we are used to.

- **Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead**
  This collection showcases new 2SQ writers with their own utopian narratives.

- **Thyme Travelers edited by Sonia Sulaiman**
  This anthology is completely unique, coming from the perspective of Palestinian diaspora writers and artists.

I hope these were fun and you found something new to read. If you have any more requests, please send them in!