Profil

It's quite long, but I enjoy the pure serial-ness of the writing. It was published in a newspaper, so you had to keep the readers coming for more, I guess. Will anything will ever be resolved? I still have more than half the book to find out.

Samit Basu doesn’t lack humour and imagination, which make this story very enjoyable. His previous books have mixed cultural and political elements of Indian life with fantasy and science fiction, enriching old westerner tropes and bringing new life to genres that have for too long been only explored by white dudes.

The heart of the story is the question: if you were living in a world menaced by sea rise and dominated by ultra rich factions, and if you found a magic lamp with a genie, what would you ask them? Of course you’d have first to find said magic lamp, and fight your way to keep it when the whole power structure wants it too. Luckily in this scenario you’d be a mischievous monkey robot with delusions of grandeur…

Oooh ça a l'air super.

@bremner@book.dansmonorage.blue I've yet reached 50% of it, and it really is different from The City Inside. Even if the settings are different, both stories feature the same kind of society, and characters having the same kind of fights. The City Inside is more serious in tone, perhaps more acerbic and somewhat angry if I remember well, as The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is lighter… it has some grandiose and baroque fights, a mischievous bot-monkey-brother, and a genius-in-a-lamp bound by an License Agreement. I'm enjoying it!