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Œuvres de Saad Hossain

The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday (2019) 190 exemplaires
Djinn City (2017) 138 exemplaires
Bagdad, la grande évasion ! (2015) 103 exemplaires
Cyber Mage (2021) 55 exemplaires
Kundo Wakes Up (2022) 47 exemplaires
The Endless 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories (2017) — Contributeur — 276 exemplaires
Made To Order: Robots and Revolution (2020) — Contributeur — 62 exemplaires
The Book of Witches: An Anthology (2023) — Contributeur — 56 exemplaires
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Twelve (2018) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires
The Best of World SF: 2 (2022) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (2023) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene (Twelve Tomorrows) (2022) — Contributeur — 26 exemplaires
The Big Book of Cyberpunk (2023) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2 (2021) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
20th century
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Bangladesh
Lieux de résidence
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Courte biographie
Saad Z. Hossain writes in a niche genre of fantasy, science fiction and black comedy with an action-adventure twist. He lives and works in Bangladesh; he writes in English.

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The end of this book reaaaally annoyed me. For some reason I’d thought it was a standalone story. That was probably a bad assumption based on not seeing any series info associated with the book and this book having a publication date of over 6 years ago. I have no idea whether or not there will ever be any sequels, but this is not a complete story.

The premise was kind of fun. There are a couple main POV characters, but we start off with Indelbed, a young boy living in poverty with an alcoholic father. He soon learns that his life isn’t what it appears to have been. Djinn are real, and his mother was one, and his father is an emissary to the djinn. Indelbed gets imprisoned by a djinn and tries to escape. Meanwhile, his cousin and aunt, who have also just learned of the existence of the djinn, take a crash course on djinn politics.

For some reason the story really didn’t hold my attention well, even though I kept feeling like it was the sort of thing I should have enjoyed more. The writing was fine, the setting was fleshed out pretty well, I liked the characters ok, and I was interested in the story on the surface of things, I just never felt compelled to read more to find out what would happen next. It also started to go downhill for me closer to the end. I’m not convinced the main villain’s motivations made that much sense and I was very, very unhappy with the direction one of the characters took toward the end.

I was going to give this 3 stars until I read the abrupt and unsatisfying ending. That pushed it down to 2.5 stars and I was tempted to go even lower, but I’ll round up to 3 on Goodreads based on my enjoyment level for the rest of the story.
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YouKneeK | 5 autres critiques | Jan 6, 2024 |
I'm not sure what to make of this dystopian novelette, but it was lots of fun reading it.

Honestly, I don't know how to describe what goes on without detailing the book and then it will just sound absurd. Because it is. Everything in the book is absurd. Humans are absurd. Djinn are absurd. AI is absurd. Absurdity abounds.

Definitely not for everyone. Unless you like funny little books about an AI driven society colliding with the awakening of an ancient hyper-masculine djinn. Then you might like it.

WTF.
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rabbit-stew | 10 autres critiques | Dec 31, 2023 |
Having finally gotten around to reading this novel, it isn't quite what I expected. Mind you, It has the wit and inventiveness that I admire Hossain for, but the conclusion is akin to a road coming to a dead end. The intention seems to be to offer the resolution of the fates of various characters in the works that follow this novel. However, if you aren't aware of those stories, you're not going to finish this book and feel satisfied. Frankly, you'd be better off reading "Cyber Mage" and Hossain's novellas before tackling this work.… (plus d'informations)
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Shrike58 | 5 autres critiques | Jan 15, 2023 |
Although this novella flirted a bit with conventional cyberpunk, Hossain has a much more poignant and, dare I say it, adult story about loss and letting go. Sure, there is no shortage of the fantastic elements Hossain has so far deployed in his literary universe, but the ending is far from pat in terms of having to make choices. The route the Kundo of the title takes on the way to truly waking up is very emotionally satisfying.
 
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Shrike58 | Dec 17, 2022 |

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10
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Membres
558
Popularité
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Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
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