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This brief final chapter will outline how the theoretical framework outlined in Chapter 4 has been extended and complicated by the readings in Chapters 5 through 10. Trends present throughout the development of Arabic SF will be extrapolated and standards and predictions will be established for future analysis of the next generation of novels. The chapter will end with an examination of how ASF as a genre can be used to read and critique some of the concepts of postcolonial theory whose analysis has accompanied the close readings.
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The text of The Multiple Person notes multiple times that Salmā, the surrogate mother whose egg cell is used to create Number One, lives in Sīrāl but is from an Arab family who, like Ju‘ūd’s and Muwā’s family in The Pale Person, immigrated to Sīrāl.
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The novel’s Arabic title ‘Uṭārid means “Mercury” (the planet, not the metal), but was translated into English as the Romanized Otared.
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Campbell, I. (2018). Conclusion. In: Arabic Science Fiction. Studies in Global Science Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91433-6_11
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