Where The Lights Glow Darkly

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AuthorMohammed Nadir
CountryGassasinia
LanguageGassasinian
GenreScience Fiction
Set in2057
PublisherGhorayeb Publishing
Publication date
1990
Published in English
1992
Media typePrint (Paperback & Hardback)
Followed byHow Can The Sun Cast a Shadow? 

Where The Lights Glow Darkly is a dystopian science fiction novel by the Gassasinian author Mohammed Nadir published in 1990. Where The Lights Glow Darkly follows Bruce Kafrouny, a disabled man from a working-class background who struggles to make it in the cut-throat corporate world of Jabiyah, where a strict caste system between the "educated" - seen as enlightened and progressive who are allowed to vote - and the "uneducated" - seen as backwards and idiotic. Although claiming to express the virtues of equality, in reality the highly capitalistic and consumerist society of 2057 Gassasinia creates a playing field whereby it is difficult for the disadvantaged to get an equal footing to those who come from a more privileged background.

Where The Lights Glow Darkly was written as a cautionary tale about the enthusiastic and unrestrained approach to capitalism undertaken by Gassasinian society during the radical transition from a developing to a developed country throughout the 1980's and early 1990's. Mohammed Nadir believed that Gassasinia's rapid growth risked leaving the disadvantaged in the dust as society became more self-interested, and strayed away from the family structure that helped people in their times of need.

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