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The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories by [Mahvesh Murad, Neil Gaiman, Amal El-Mohtar, Nnedi Okorafor, Jared Shurin]

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A fascinating collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers.

Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn.

And they are everywhere. On street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, between the pages of books. Every language has a word for them. Every culture knows their traditions. Every religion, every history has them hiding in their dark places.

There is no part of the world that does not know them.

They are the Djinn. They are among us.

With stories from: Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Helene Wecker, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherine King, Claire North, E.J. Swift, Hermes (trans. Robin Moger), Jamal Mahjoub, James Smythe, J.Y. Yang, Kamila Shamsie, Kirsty Logan, K.J. Parker, Kuzhali Manickavel, Maria Dahvana Headley, Monica Byrne, Saad Hossain, Sami Shah, Sophia Al-Maria and Usman Malik.

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Finalist for the World Fantasy, Locus and Shirley Jackson Awards

"Exquisite and audacious, and highly recommended" - The New York Times

"Ignites like the creature it profiles... a rich and illuminating cultural experience." - The Washington Post

"Entertaining, sexy and mischievous" - Marina Warner

"Gorgeous" - Tor.com

"A treasure chest of literally wonderful and marvelous stories, with a kind of richness that fantasy only rarely achieves." - Tim Powers

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"We received twenty very different stories, each approaching jinn, or the concept of jinn, for totally different perspectives. On the whole, what surprised us was that, across the book, the jinn were presented in a non-adversarial way. They may be the 'other', or different, or even dangerous - but there's never the assumption that conflict is inevitable." - From an interview with SciFiPulse.net

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MU2F0AH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Solaris (March 9, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 9, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Best Sellers Rank: #358,779 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,012 in Fantasy Anthologies & Short Stories (Kindle Store)
- #1,112 in Fantasy Anthologies
- #1,299 in Fiction Anthologies

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Neil Gaiman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including Norse Mythology, Neverwhere, and The Graveyard Book. Among his numerous literary awards are the Newbery and Carnegie medals, and the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner awards. He is a Professor in the Arts at Bard College.
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Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning author and critic: her short fiction has won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards, while her poetry has won the Rhysling award three times. She is the author of THE HONEY MONTH, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey, and writes the OTHERWORLDLY column for the New York Times Book Review. She's the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, an epistolary time-travelling spy vs spy novella. Find her online at amalelmohtar.com, or on Twitter @tithenai.
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Good Sampling from International Authors - not all stories are focused on djinn/genies

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2018

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I really liked the premise of this anthology - different takes on djinns (or jinns, or genies, etc.) from a variety of viewpoints, but none of them the Disney version. For the most part I think it delivered. The one thing I was a little disappointed in is several of the stories seemed to just include a supernatural element of some sort, but it's not clear that it's a djinn - it could be any sort of supernatural power of manifestation. There are 22 stories (including 1 poem) in this anthology, so rather than trying to review them all, I'll simply call out the ones that particularly spoke to me:

**The Congregation** by Kamila Shamsie - 4/5. This is the first story in the anthology (after the poem) and I think it was a strong opener. About a boy and his twin who is a jinn and their lifelong desire to be united. There's a particularly touching quote near the end of the story, from an exorcist, "All he's ever wanted is to be possessed. There is no evil here, only love. God save us from a world that can't tell the difference."

**Hurrem and the Djinn** by Claire North - 4/5. The voice of this story does remind me somewhat of the opening of the Disney version of this to be honest, but I liked it. A twist on the classic One Thousand and One Nights mixed with some fantastic original magic scenes, I really liked this. I liked the prior Claire North title I read as well, so I will be trying to fit more of her work into my reading.

**Reap** by Sami Shah - 4/5. This was one I couldn't stop reading. I'd actually lean toward classing it as supernatural horror, a genre I don't generally enjoy, but all the same this was a great story. I would have read a longer, more developed version of it for sure. The one thing that detracted from it for me is while there's something supernatural going on, without a doubt, it's one of those stories where there aren't really djinn involved, necessarily. There might be, but it's never explored.

**Message in a Bottle** by K.J. Parker - 3.5/5. I liked this one for the clear writing style and the magic of the world created. I thought the necromancy felt a bit like Max Gladstone's Craft books, in the best of ways. I'm not sure I loved the ending, but I enjoyed getting there. K.J. Parker is an author I've been trying to get to, so it was nice reading this short story.

**Bring Your Own Spoon** by Saad Z. Hossain - 4.5/5. Loved this sort of dystopian sci-fi tale. Touching on how food can create community set against a society where currency has shifted, but the poor are still poor and access to basics like clean food and water are not guaranteed. I really enjoyed the cooking/urban foraging type thing going on in this story. I would absolutely read a followup about Imbi and Hanu discovering what's beyond the city.

**The Spite House** by Kirsty Logan - 3.5/5. This was probably the closest to a "traditional" genie story that I found in the anthology. The author did a great job of subverting the wish-fulfillment (but be careful what you wish for and how you wish for it) trope.

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superstardrifterTop Contributor: Fantasy Books

A Wonderful Collection of Djinn Stories!

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2017

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It’s not often that I find an anthology in which I truly enjoy every story presented. I mean, it’s hard to please someone 100% of the time, amirite? That said, I didn’t dislike any of these stories, and that’s quite an achievement. I had only heard of 4 of the authors before, and only read 3 of them, so this was a lovely dive into a new an exciting world. I especially liked that this group of authors was really diverse, and I loved seeing the djinn from all these different points of view. Many different cultures come together to tell stories here, and it was awesome.

My favorite story of the bunch was Helene Wecker’s Majnun, partially because I just loved the story itself, but I think the fact that her novel The Golem and the Jinni is one of my favorite books of all time influences this somewhat, and therefore when I saw the name Helene Wecker correspond to a story about djinn in an anthology about djinn, well… I squeed. I squeed myself. It was a great story, that even within the 10 or so minutes it took to read, made me really like its characters.

I had other favorite stories in here as well. The story Reap by Sami Shah was really interesting in that it told the story from the point of view of American soldiers using drone technology to watch a small village in Pakistan, so you see this whole story and its (in this case, quite terrifying) djinn in a different way. The people being watched seem to know what is happening, what is terrorizing them, but the people watching have no idea what’s happening, and when strange things begin to happen to them too, it takes it to a legitimately scary level. It’s really quite interesting to think of what an outsider would think in that situation.

The story Black Powder by Maria Dahvana Headley was also really interesting to me because the djinn takes the form of a gun, and the whole story has a bit of a western… or perhaps almost a post-apocalyptic western feel to it. It had not one by two of my favorite quotes from this whole anthology in it: ‘A hunter is always looking for wishes to come true, and if it takes blood and rending to get them, then it does.’ and ‘Wishing for love is like wishing for more wishes.’ Just fantastic!

Kuzhali Manickavel’s How We Remember You was nice and short, and also beautifully written. The story just pulled me in. It was a lament, or an apology, or a bit of both. It was nostalgic, and sad. Very well done. Also, and this is a bit of an aside, this is a piece of work that I can show people that shows how a story can be beautifully written, while at the same time, have the f-bomb in it (because yes, I have had this argument).

A Tale of Ash in Seven Birds by Amal El-Mohtar was another beautifully and cleverly told story which is, as the title suggests, told in birds. The djinn in this tale changes shapes as the story progresses, from one type of bird to the next to the next until they are, what can only be described as the ultimate bird. Because, when you’re just trying to survive in a crazy world of birds, one needs to become the bird to end all birds.

There is included in this lovely anthology one of my favorite parts of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, which is named here Somewhere in America, which follows the (rather unexpected at times) exploits of Salim, a traveling salesman from Oman, and his encounter with a jinn in New York City.

In the end, this covers just some of the stories in this anthology, and as I said, I enjoyed all of them. I really enjoyed most of them. As far as anthologies go, it's a win!

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B in CA

It's a short story anthology, and a mixed bag

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2018

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This is an anthology of short stories. In my experience, such anthologies tend to be mixed bags: some stories are fantastic, some are okay, and a few are disappointing. This is one of those anthologies.

A number of the stories within are quite good. But some stories try so hard to be so clever and different that they wind up straying from the theme of the book: djinn. While I certainly didn't expect the stories to all be lamps and wishes, I felt like some of the stories got so far away from the mythological underpinnings that they were hardly about djinn any more. Still, there are a number of real gems in the book, and I am glad that I read it. I did not feel like I had been cheated in my purchase--it's an anthology, after all, and different stories appeal to different tastes.

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Allegra

Some outstanding writing, some a bit mixed, but very well worth reading.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2019

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I had no idea what to expect when I bought this, and it was the association of Neil Gaiman with this collection, a writer for whom I have great admiration, that made me buy it. It's a collection of many stories, interpreting the concept of the djinni in many different ways, by a whole range of gifted authors most of whom are from Islamic backgrounds (sometimes immediate, sometimes hereditary) so to most (white) UK readers (such as me, to my shame) they will be unknown. Some of these stories are quite outstanding, with absolutely beautiful writing; some have mind-stretching concepts. There were a couple I found less impressive, but overall this is a collection I shall re-read with great pleasure. And I shall be actively looking for other books by these authors.

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Enrico

Wonderfully diverse takes on Islamic mythology

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2017

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The best story may be A Tale of Ash in Seven Birds, where Amal el-Mohtar recounts the perpetual struggle between djinns and the "wizard-nation" (that is, humans) as a series of transformations--from bird to bird for the djinns, predator to predator for the humans--not unlike the duel between Merlin and Madam Mim at the end of The Sword and the Stone, though lyrical and moving where the latter is OTT and cartoonish. It could also be read as a metaphor for the struggle any immigrant faces in a new country. Reap, by Sami Shah, also gripped me like few others--it details a series of creepy occurrences in a Pakistani village, but from the point of view of the personnel at a US Air Force Base who survey the village via drone. Between the unusual perspective and the disturbing imagery, I suspect it will be difficult for me to forget this story. Readers be warned, however: Reap does include some brutal moments.

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april

mixed bag

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 15, 2019

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as in all anthologies, some stories grab you, and some do not...here, most of them did, and a few led me to look for other works by their authors...most of the stories i enjoyed, only a few left me totally cold...so, on the whole, a good read...for a decent price...

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