Title: SF Travelogue
Product review: Nasir says "...as a native Arab I had found most sf portrayals of theMiddle East to be the most astonishing malarkey. I wanted to write about the region as it really is: hot, jostling, ancient, and human-intense, and about the luminous inner awareness awakened by its blinding days and jasmine nights, its silent ruins baking the stillness of orange groves."The story begins in a simple hut on the Jordan River. Blaine Ramsey is a"digger" who prospects for compelling subconscious images for use inadvertising. He finds his dreams and even his days haunted by an Egyptian film goddess. He travels to Cairo to pursue his vision.The mystery of Ramsey's goddess/actress is revealed, if not explained,against the exotic, tumultuous Cairo urban landscape. For readers of American science fiction, Jamil Nasir's travelogue in this book should be as strange and exciting as any trip to an alien planet.
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