The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
novella 2019 Djinn City
Record
| First published | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novella |
| Canon status | |
| Reader rating | 4.04 (2,389 ratings, collected 2026-10-18) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250209115 |
Synopsis
When the djinn king Melek Ahmar wakes up after millennia of imprisoned slumber, the world is vastly different from what he remembers. Arrogant and bombastic, he comes down the mountain expecting an easy conquest: the wealthy, spectacular city-state of Kathmandu, ruled by the all-knowing, all-seeing tyrant Al Karma. To his surprise, he finds Kathmandu a cut-price paradise, where citizens want for nothing and even the dregs of society are distinctly unwilling to revolt. Everyone seems happy, except for the old Gurkha soldier Bhan Gurung, knife saint, recidivist and mass murderer, an exile pursuing a forty-year-old vendetta that leads to the very heart of Karma. Pushed and prodded by Gurung, Melek Ahmar finds himself in ever deeper conflicts until they face off against Karma and her forces, and old crimes come to light.
Where it sits
- Universe: Djinn City
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Saad Z. Hossain
Notes
- A finalist for the Locus Award and the Ignyte 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 2 of 4: previous Djinn City (2017) · next Cyber Mage (2021)
Sources
- ULAB Press (author biography)
- Big Sky Library of Asian Speculative Fiction (bibliography)
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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