In his youth, Mohamed Samatar's magnetic personality showed no boundaries. Everyone was drawn to him, including bad influences. But after his father died in 2015, Samatar changed his ways. He cut off ...

Edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman. Tachyon, $16.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-61696-257-9 This excellent anthology showcases up-and-coming speculative fiction writers, many of whom have ...

Samatar's lush sequel to A Stranger in Olondria is a story of revolution, religion, and electrifying love in four distinct voices. Tavis is close kin to the current Telkan, the ruler of the fantasy ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This landscape still proves fascinating, if less of a threat than a century and half ago. Capitals like Tashkent and Samarkand ...

Hussein Samatar, a Minneapolis school board member and the first Somali elected to public office in Minnesota, has died of complications from leukemia. He was 45. Samatar played a prominent role in ...

Sofia Samatar's duology of novels, 2013's A Stranger in Olondria and last year's The Winged Histories, took place in a mythic land of Olondria — a place where words are equal to religion, politics, ...

Yahya Samatar stands with Karin Gordon, executive director of resettlement for Hospitality House Refugee Ministry, just before the start of Wednesday's hearing. (Kaj Hasselriis/CBC) Yahya Samatar, the ...

Salma Bile was interested in pursuing a career in medicine, but didn’t think she could become a doctor. “In my culture, girls get married pretty young, normally,” she said. Then, in high school, with ...