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Looking for the Mahdi
by
N. Lee Wood
Halton was a humanoid fabricant, created to serve as a bodyguard in the Middle East. Fay was as an all-too-human correspondent, assigned to deliver him to a country from which she had barely escaped with her sanity. She didn't know it was a setup...until it was too late. And the only one she could trust -- the only one who hadn't betrayed her -- was the android himself.
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
August 1st 1997
by Ace
(first published February 1st 1996)
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Apr 10, 2010
Judy
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I read this book at least 10 yrs ago, maybe in the late 1990's. Published in 1996, it's a story with a strong female protagonist, Kay Bee Sulaiman, who is a journalist, a reporter who covers high-profile stories like the war in Khuruchabja (fictitious country), getting the scoop while dodging bullets:
"I'm the brains that writes the words delivered with such perfect accents by the earnest-looking immaculate blonds. I'm the questions that elegant that silver-haired anchormen with the penetrating e...more
"I'm the brains that writes the words delivered with such perfect accents by the earnest-looking immaculate blonds. I'm the questions that elegant that silver-haired anchormen with the penetrating e...more
Hard science meets middle east politics. Kaybee is a strong female protagonist, though she gets a bit strident at times. A former broadcast journalist, she is recruited by covert operatives to escort a human fabricant into a fictitious middle eastern nation similar to Afghanistan. They are betrayed and the sultan is assassinated. They struggle to uncover the conspiracy and escape from the war-torn nation. Kaybee and the fabricant become lovers. Ends with hope for middle east sovereignty and peac...more
up to p.89 - shaping up to something like Silver Metal Lover with William Gibson speed.
Enjoyed the ride ~ this was the author's first book and I felt it sagged in some places under the weight of narrative about the politics of Khuruchabja that some decent editing would have streamlined. Khuruchabja is a fictional place in the near future in the middle east and the author's use of too many references to politics in our recent decade seem forced.
I see that previous readers have taken it to be a s...more
Enjoyed the ride ~ this was the author's first book and I felt it sagged in some places under the weight of narrative about the politics of Khuruchabja that some decent editing would have streamlined. Khuruchabja is a fictional place in the near future in the middle east and the author's use of too many references to politics in our recent decade seem forced.
I see that previous readers have taken it to be a s...more
One of my all-time favorites. I read this book near its publication date in the 90s, before September 11th. It's interesting to see how it has retained relevance over time. Half the dictators are dead, our computers surpass the ones in this, but the asides on the philosophy of power and cultural differences, as well as the bitchtastic attitude of the narrator will always make this book worth reading.
Picked this book up at the library, and am enchanted. Slightly light, but has some interesting points. Like Asimov's I, Robot it brings up questions (civil, sociological) of manufactured beings. All sounds familiar in the politics and the wars, just set in the future with a woman who is the central character.
This was a fascinating sci-fi thriller and an eerie glimpse into a very possible apocalyptic future in the Middle East.
Rather liked this book, way back when. Was reminded that I'd read it after looking at the blurb for "Alif the Unseen".
Halton is a humanoid fabricant, created as a bodyguard. Kay is an androgynous woman who has reported from the middle east as a man before and she is sent in to try to help Halton get out. Along the way she has to try to survive with her sanity intact. Everyone has an agenda except the android.
It's interesting and the characters are well drawn, it's less SF than feminist commentary on the treatment of women in the middle east. I enjoyed the read but wasn't terribly impressed and I'm not completel...more
It's interesting and the characters are well drawn, it's less SF than feminist commentary on the treatment of women in the middle east. I enjoyed the read but wasn't terribly impressed and I'm not completel...more
Loved the cover, book was so forgettable I read it once and forgot it, then read it again to make sure before I recycled it. Can't remember anything about it. I think there was an explosion in it.
Apr 29, 2013
J. Allen Nelson
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aka Lee Wood.
N. Lee Wood is the author of Faraday's Orphans and Looking for Mahdi, both published by Gollancz/Vista in 1996. She sold her first ever novel in Romania and hasn't stopped being published since. She is a frequent visitor to British and European conventions, and travels extensively from her home in Paris. She is married to Norman Spinrad, who shares her enthusiasm for Europe in general...more
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N. Lee Wood is the author of Faraday's Orphans and Looking for Mahdi, both published by Gollancz/Vista in 1996. She sold her first ever novel in Romania and hasn't stopped being published since. She is a frequent visitor to British and European conventions, and travels extensively from her home in Paris. She is married to Norman Spinrad, who shares her enthusiasm for Europe in general...more
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