Bibliographic record
Abstract
The academic Sherman Jackson observed that culture is frequency through which religion travels.While some people either in their naiveté or rigidity would think that culture and religion are separate and at loggerheads, it is true that one cannot have religion with a culture.All religions require a culture for their manifestation.The Islam and Science Fiction project was started in 2005.The main impetus behind the project was to fill a gap in the literature about Muslims and Islamic cultures in Science Fiction.Thus the focus is on the cultures with Muslim majorities and not necessarily the religion itself, although there is overlap between the two.It would have been more appropriate to describe the project as Islamicate Science Fiction but given that the term Islamicate, even 70 years after its coinage by Marshall Hodgson, is still largely confined to academia I decided not to use it at the time as it may cause confusion.The project has greatly evolved beyond the initial scope and has expanded to include spreading awareness, fostering and promoting Islamicate Science Fiction.The current volume, which consists of stories selected from a short story competition with Islamicate Science Fiction themes, is part of the same endeavor.The area of Islamicate Science Fiction has not reached maturity even after more than 150 years of Science Fiction coming out of the Muslim world and after just over a decade since the inception of the Islam and Science Fiction project.In the early years of this project I co--edited an anthology of Science Fiction stories, A Mosque Among the Stars, with the Canadian Science Fiction author Ahmed Khan in 2008.In the span of the last eight years not enough material has come out in this sub--genre, as one would have expected.With the goal of fostering new contributions in this domain and rallying our fan base the Islamicate Science Fiction Short Story writing competition was inaugurated.Given that this is the first time that this competition was held the response to the competition was quite overwhelming, we received a total of 78 submissions.The stories presented in this volume represent the collection of best stories that were submitted to the competition and come from a diverse set of authors and story setting.It is my hope that the current volume is the inaugural issue of Islamicates Short Story Anthology and there are many more that will come in the future.The role of speculative fiction is to imagine alternate worlds in the minds of people, to make them question the way things are and how A C K U
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.136 | 0.040 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".