Djinn City
core novel 2017 Djinn City
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.69 (1,308 ratings, collected 2026-10-18) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781944700065 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super-dense, super-chaotic capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka. When his father, Kaikobad, falls into a supernatural coma, Indelbed and his older cousin, the wise-cracking slacker Rais, learn that Indelbed's dad was in fact a magician, and a trusted emissary to the djinn world. Using reinvented Islamic mythology to build a mirror world to our own on the brink of disaster, Saad Z. Hossain's darkly comic fantasy adventure moves between Dhaka and the realm of the djinn, whose vengeful emissaries reach into Bangladesh.
Where it sits
- Universe: Djinn City
- Series: Djinn City core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Saad Z. Hossain
Notes
- From the series record (Djinn City): Saad Z. Hossain's novels of a Dhaka crosshatched with the world of the djinn.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Djinn City: position 1 of 2: next Cyber Mage (2021)
Sources
- Big Sky Library of Asian Speculative Fiction (bibliography)
- Wikipedia
- Unnamed Press (publisher)
- Unnamed Press (publisher description, via Bookshop.org)
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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