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The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)

P. Djèlí Clark

Start date: June 3, 2019

Finish date: June 6, 2019

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Jan 20, 2023 Sarah rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, american-fiction, black-history-and-culture, egypt, top-priorities, fantasy, sci-fi, speculative-alt-history, steampunk

I absolutely adore this series, Dead Djinn Universe. It's steampunk set in Cairo, and P Djeli Clark appears to have an intimate relationship with the city, though I cannot find anything indicating that he's lived there. But reading through this novella, as well as its predecessors, is like waking up there, and the journey is delightful. This novella follows Inspectors Hamed and Onsi (one Sunni Muslim and on Coptic Christian, a nice touch) as they attempt to identify and rid a tram of a spirit of ...more

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Mar 04, 2019 Martha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I enjoy these books a lot. This one wasn't quite as seamless in its incorporation of issues of gender and politics, but they're still there, and the story itself is engaging and both funny and frightening, all of which is impressive given how short the tale (novella?) actually is. ...more

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Mar 29, 2021 Wellington rated it really liked it

I enjoyed this novella immensely. You are just dropped in the story, but you are able to figure out pretty quickly what is happening. The writing is spare, but evocative. Not sure if this part of a series, but will read more by this author.

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