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“Are we still alive?” Aasim whispered in the silence.
Fatma released a long-held breath. They were alive, but with more questions than they had started with.
This is a Tor short that feels like a full-length novel, and you'll wish it was a lot longer than it is.
The genre: steampunk paranormal murder mystery set in early 20th Century Cairo
The set-up: Sometime around 1880, someone drilled a hole between our world and the djinn world in Egypt. Things haven't been the same since.
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As a fan of mystery, fantasy, and speculative fiction who grew up in the Middle East, I'm always up to check out genre books set there. (George Alec Effinger's cyberpunk Marid Audren trilogy is the standout I've come across so far.) This novella is a great introduction to a fully-realized steampunk 1912 Cairo, and Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi of the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities. The story opens with her on the scene of a big, naked, blue, and very dead d
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Another great installment in this universe - I love Clark's writing, his characters, and the universe.
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