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The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport | Samit Basu
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From international bestseller Samit Basu, an exuberant new sci-fi adventure with heart that reads like a mash-up of Aladdin and Murderbotwith gloriously chaotic results Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rulers arent helping anyone but themselves. Lina, a daughter of failed revolutionaries, has no desire to escape Shantiport. She loves her city and would do anything to save its people. This is, in fact, the plan for her life, made before she was even born. Her brother, Bador, is a small monkey bot with a big attitude and bigger ambitions. He wants a chance to leave this dead-end planet and explore the universe on his own terms. But that would mean abandoning the family he loveseven if they do take him for granted. When Shantiport's resident tech billionaire coerces Lina into retrieving a powerful artifact rumored to be able to reshape reality, forces from before their time begin coalescing around the siblings. And when you throw in a piece of sentient, off-world tech with the ability to grant three wishes into the mix... None of the city's powers will know what hit them.
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This is a ROMP. Basu says in acknowledgements that he started off retelling the Aladdin story in a spec fic setting but it ended up as something else. You have a city in poverty & crime ruled by colonisers, oligarchs & crime lords, then the family of a disappeared revolutionary find a piece of alien tech. Lots of battles, lots about political systems and the difficulties of revolutions & just fantastic world and character building. ⬇️

Centique Hope he writes a follow up to this. 4d
Ruthiella Sounds fantastic! 4d
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