This is a wickedly Sharp and clever book with an amalgam of genres and settings and ideas. This novella sells a concept of a real powerful AI vs an all powerful recently awakened Djinn, based on an ideal utopian society nestled in a climate controlled Kathmandu with the garnish of human beings who have the potential to screw it all up. The recently awakened Djinn run into quite possibly the only human being who isn’t a fan of Karma, the AI managing and running Utopia. What follows is quite fun with the Djinn angling to be the supreme ruler while the human being has his own agenda in manipulating the Djinn while hoodwinking the AI, Karma.

Given it’s a novella, there isn’t much depth but the commentary on a host of things - climate change, wealth inequality, free will etc is sharp and subtle at the same time. This is black humor and yet quite a funny and a fun book. Huge fan of the author’s Escape from Baghdad and this one quite the jewel to add to it