I didn’t set out to build a platform. I just kept running into the same problem.
For years, I’ve been writing science fiction—trying to imagine futures rooted in where I come from. My novel Divided Species, published in 2020 by Auraq Publishers, was my attempt to do exactly that. Not a distant galaxy. Not a generic city. Karachi. Real, chaotic, layered—and still full of unreal possibilities. To my knowledge, it remains the only science fiction novel set in Karachi. Because it’s my hometown, I could ground the story in real places while building something speculative around them. The story follows a mission to Earth by the Taleyken race from the planet Arplon. A young man, Rayan, befriends three alien soldiers sent to locate and protect a hidden mineral resource buried in Karachi before it’s too late. Read here for more: https://omariftikhar.blog/the-writer/#fiction
In 2024, I published Player AI, a sports science fiction story built on a simple question: what happens when technology stops assisting performance and starts defining it? Set just before the T20 World Cup, it explores a crisis where a cricket board replaces its ill captain with a lifelike android. It’s a story about sport, but also about identity, instinct, and the limits of innovation. Read here for more: https://omariftikhar.blog/the-writer/#fiction
But while writing these stories, I realized something uncomfortable.
There was no real space in Pakistan for this kind of thinking. Yes, science fiction existed—but mostly as imported content. We consumed the future. We weren’t actively imagining our own.
That gap stayed with me.
Because science fiction isn’t just escapism. It’s exploration. It asks questions before they become problems. And today, those questions—around AI, identity, and control—are no longer theoretical.
That’s why I built Scifiers.org.
A place for people who think about the future—not just as spectators, but as participants. Writers, thinkers, students, creators.
Because Pakistan needs future thinkers. And so does the world.
If you’re already thinking about the future, you’re part of this. Scifiers is just where those ideas begin to take shape.
If you want to contribute blogs on science fiction to cover reviews of books and movies or essays on sicence fiction, please send your entries at: scifierspakistan@gmail.com