Kundo Wakes Up
novella 2022 Djinn City
Record
| First published | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novella |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250823922 |
Synopsis
Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving the dying city of Chittagong, along with all its remaining residents, to continue its inexorable fall into the sea. Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes searching for his missing wife, only to uncover more inexplicable disappearances. And so Kundo and a group of motley companions embark on a tumultuous journey through a maze of Chittagong's neighbourhoods, the hidden backrooms of video game parlours and the depths of cyberspace, culminating in the realm of the djinn themselves, in search of love, redemption and a good meal.
Where it sits
- Universe: Djinn City
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Saad Z. Hossain
Notes
- A companion to The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday; longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award, per the author's biography.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Djinn City (standalone work): position 4 of 4: previous Cyber Mage (2021)
Sources
- Tor.com Publishing (publisher description, via Worlds Without End)
- Tor Publishing Group (publisher description, via Dragonmount)
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (bibliography)
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