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The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain
3.0
Weird, weird story.
A djinn wakes up to find himself in a post-climate apocalypse world, in which people live in strictly-controlled micro-societies headed by benevolent AIs. He sets out to make the new world acknowledge his power, and joins forces with a strange Gurkha man, a member of no society.
Quickly, things spiral rapidly out of control. The strange Gurkha has an agenda, but what is it? Are the AIs so benevolent after all? The djinn just wants to party, but these annoying people and their problems won't let him alone to have fun.
This is a chaotic, original, profane, bizarre and irreverent melding of cyberpunk and fantasy. I was intrigued, but honestly wasn't sure what to think.
A djinn wakes up to find himself in a post-climate apocalypse world, in which people live in strictly-controlled micro-societies headed by benevolent AIs. He sets out to make the new world acknowledge his power, and joins forces with a strange Gurkha man, a member of no society.
Quickly, things spiral rapidly out of control. The strange Gurkha has an agenda, but what is it? Are the AIs so benevolent after all? The djinn just wants to party, but these annoying people and their problems won't let him alone to have fun.
This is a chaotic, original, profane, bizarre and irreverent melding of cyberpunk and fantasy. I was intrigued, but honestly wasn't sure what to think.