Dr. Somaiya Daud

Dr. Somaiya Daud is the author of Mirage and its forthcoming
sequel, Court of Lions (out August 4, 2020). Check out the cover
reveal from Court of Lions and read an excerpt at Tor.com, as
well as a conversation between Somaiya and I about how the theme
of lost cultures functions in the series.


Somaiya has also answered questions on a February 28, 2020
mailbag episode, and was featured on the July 5, 2014 episode
(the very first First Draft episode ever).


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Somaiya Daud’s first interview with First Draft Podcast




Throughout her writing career Somaiya’s writing become more
genre forced aka more “J. R. R. Tolkien and less William
Gibson.”




When cosplaying form the Victorian era they say that no one
would cosplay Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens you would
cosplay Emma by Jane Austen




Somaiya did her Masters thesis on The Arabian Nights by
Muhsin Mahdi (Editor), Husain Haddawy (Translator)




Somaiya’s dissertation is on Historiography and Translation
Theory




Chelsea Grimmer is the host of The Poetry Vlog, a show in
which people discuss poetry and pop culture




Somaiya Daud on The Poetry Vlog where she talked about how
Science Fiction is studied academically versus how it is
perceived in pop culture




Provincializing Europe by Dipesh Chakrabarty, talks about the
ways in which Europe’s idea of modernization was in part
built on the idea that the rest of the world was caught in a
historical waiting land




Somaiya read Consorts of the Caliph by Ibn Al-Sa’i when
implementing poetry into the Mirage




Joanna Volpe,President and literary agent at New Leaf
Literary agency




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