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Part of the explanation could lie in the fact that when you look at photos taken at gatherings of fantasy writers, you'll notice quite a difference from what you'd see on the street. When you consider the wealth of material from around the world that could spark an author's imagination, or the fact that you can't walk down a street in any major Western city without seeing an exciting mix of ethnicities among the populace, it is a little disconcerting to be reading freshly published books perpetuating old stereotypes of dark villains threatening the virtue of some pale-skinned lovely.Ī "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant only" club At the very least it would have been nice to see a few darker skinned characters created without the adjective exotic tagged onto their description. ​​In fact one would have hoped those in the business of writing about the future would have taken that opportunity to create worlds reflecting the social changes that occurred during the years they were writing. An Arab-American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet: Saladin Ahmed was born in 1975 in Detroit, Michigan to parents of Lebanese, Egyptian, Irish and Polish descent