Unobtrusive hints of backstory contribute to the sense that this novel is part of a larger ongoing tale, and the Arab-influenced setting is full of vibrant description, characters, and religious expressions that will delight readers weary of pseudo-European epics. His original horror comic ABBOTT was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and was a Michigan Notable Book.
His first comic, BLACK BOLT, won the Will Eisner award. Saladin Ahmed delivers a beautiful story of a demon hunter in an Arabian Nights setting. Saladin Ahmeds THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. They soon discover that the mysterious figure plans to cast an ancient sacrificial spell powerful enough to wreck the world. Saladin Ahmed was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Dearborn, MI. ' Throne of the Crescent Moon is colorful, magical, exciting, and moving. Hunting the sorcerer who raised the ghuls, Adoulla and his religiously uptight swordsman apprentice, Raseed, are aided by the lone Badawi survivor, a girl named Zamia who can transform into a lion. Throne of the Crescent Moon Saladin Ahmed 3.64 11,042 ratings1,697 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Fantasy (2012) The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. Doctor Adoulla Makhslood is a professional destroyer of ghuls, clawed creatures whose hissing sounds like “a thousand serpents rasping with a man’s hatred.” He’s almost ready to retire when an unheard-of number of the monsters all but wipe out an entire clan of the Badawi people. SALADIN AHMED Throne of the Crescent Moon Book One of The Crescent Moon Kingdoms DAW BOOKS, INC. Ahmed’s debut masterfully paints a world both bright and terrible.
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