Future Echos of the Arabian Nights

1,001 Lightyears Entertainments

Dave Loeff
Length: 240 pages in paperback
Word Count: 60,511

 

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About:
Thousands of years after humanity colonized other worlds, only seven of those have allied as the Galactic Commonwealth. These seven, self-styled, enlightened worlds set themselves apart from hundreds of so-called barbarian worlds. While the worlds of the Commonwealth have access to superior technology, its literature has become formulaic and tame. Much of the folklore told on the known barbarian worlds, and by the star farers who travel between them, has roots in an ancient Earth literature, once known as the Arabian Nights Entertainments. A sampling of the coarse and unsophisticated, yet less predictable and bland, literature and folklore of the barbarian worlds is presented here as 1,001 Lightyears Entertainments.

 

Sample:
There was much to do before they could marry. He asked Izayza to be one of their witnesses. At first she refused, “Raheem, you’re making a huge mistake. A woman such as this can never make you happy.”
“Her voice is melodious as warbling night doves. Her conversation is as astute as a scholar’s and as expressive as a poet’s. And her beauty surpasses that of any woman in our village. Except for your own beauty, dear sister.”
 “Brother, you haven’t seen her feet. You cannot marry this maiden.”
“How can I not? Such beauty, such talents, such charms.”
“Such feet.”