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	The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday 4.04 avg rating — 2,325 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories by Mahvesh Murad (Editor), Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 3.66 avg rating — 1,450 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Djinn City 3.69 avg rating — 1,291 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cyber Mage 3.88 avg rating — 742 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escape from Baghdad! 3.97 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Witches by Jonathan Strahan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Linda D. Addison (Contributor), P. Djèlí Clark (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.46 avg rating — 667 ratings — published 2023 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kundo Wakes Up 3.87 avg rating — 536 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Made to Order: Robots and Revolution by Jonathan Strahan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Peter Watts (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl (Editor), K. Tempest Bradford (Goodreads Author), Darcie Little Badger (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of World SF, Volume 2 by Lavie Tidhar (Editor), Nadia Afifi (Goodreads Author), Lavanya Lakshminarayan 3.84 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What good were humans without their habitual dissatisfaction? It was their defining trait.”
― Saad Hossain, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

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“I feel hollow. And skinless."
"That's the feeling of childhood falling away.”
― Saad Hossain, Djinn City

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“Gurung smiled. "I know just where to find many people needing decapitation. But first, a nap.”
― Saad Hossain, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

tags: adventure, dark-humor, djinn, gurkha, humor

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The Abolition of Species by Dietmar Dath

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Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo

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