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Saladin Ahmed

(b.1975)

Saladin Ahmed's fiction has been shortlisted for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and the Harper’s Pen Award for Best Sword & Sorcery/Heroic Fantasy Short Story. His fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Drabblecast, PodCastle, Expanded Horizons, and the Portuguese F/SF magazine Bang!.He was born in Detroit and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction

Series

Crescent Moon
1. Throne of the Crescent Moon (2012)
2. The Thousand and One (2017)

Collections

Engraved on the Eye (2012)

Series contributed to

Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Canto Bight (2017) (with others)

Books containing stories by Saladin Ahmed

From a Certain Point of View: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (2023)
(Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, book 3)

Resist (2018)
Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against
edited by
Hugh Howey, Gary Whitta and Christie Yant

Low Chicago (2018)
(Wild Cards, book 25)
edited by
George R R Martin

More books

Awards

2013 Locus Award for Best First Novel : Throne of the Crescent Moon

Award nominations

	2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Throne of the Crescent Moon
	2012 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Throne of the Crescent Moon
	2010 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela

Saladin Ahmed recommends

The Future of Another Timeline (2019)
Annalee Newitz
"Exciting and urgent in the here and now."

The Bloodprint (2017)
(Khorasan Archives, book 1)
Ausma Zehanat Khan
"The Bloodprint is somewhere between N.K. Jemisin and George R.R. Martin. You’re going to love it."

The Worker Prince (2011)
(Saga of Davi Rhii, book 1)
Bryan Thomas Schmidt
"Retro-with-a-twist SF brimming with an infectious enthusiasm!."

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