Salman Rushdie's Sci-Fi

This ought to be interesting.  Salman Rushdie who's fame was enhanced by death threats from the Iranian government and Muslims worldwide will be starting work on a sci-fi television series.  The series promises to deal with politics, science, technology, religion and sexuality.

Had it not been for the death threats that the author received, I would probably never have read his Satanic Verses.  Parts at the begining seemed a bit to fantastic for my tastes, but the book improves as you go further on.  As I was reading the part where the main characters fall out of an airplane and are able to survive because one character flapped his arms, I became angry at the Iranian government for bringing my attention to such a terrible book.

They say his book is an example of magical realism.  For me the magic fails, but the realism is good.  I think that in order to be interesting a work of fiction needs to have characters that deal with problems that they experience in the world.  If the world that the author depicts has no rules, then the order of the work seems arbitrary.  It's very difficult to come up with an alternate set of rules for magic and supernatural events and to communicate those to the reader so that the order of the work can be understood.