Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. DJÈLÍ CLARK spent the formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. He is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn and the novellas The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Ring Shout, The Black God's Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. He has won the Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon Awards. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies, including Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. He is also a founding member of FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.
Locus Award Winner!
A 2022 RUSA Reading List Fantasy Winner
A 2021 NEIBA Book Award Finalist
World Fantasy Award Nominee
Salt Lake County Library System Reader's Choice Award Nominee
A Best of 2021 Pick in SFF for Kobo
Included in NPR's Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past
Decade (2011-2021) "Clark reconfigures history with a keen,
critical eye toward gender, class, and imperialism. An epic tale of
magic and mystery, this is sure to wow." - Publishers Weekly,
starred review "Clark deftly explores colonialism and the history
of Cairo with an immersive setting that acts as another character
in this delightful combination of mystery, fantasy, and romance.
Give this to alternate history enthusiasts and mystery readers who
enjoy a dose of the magical." - Booklist, starred review "What a
wonderful world P. Djélì Clarke has created here -- an Arab world
never colonized, where magic-powered trams glide through a
cosmopolitan Cairo and where djinns make mischief among humans." -
NPR "With its richly imagined world and characters and its
high-stakes and thrilling plot, this novel would make such a
fantastic show in the vein of The Nevers and Carnival Row, but
better." - Buzzfeed "A clever, wickedly fun steampunk mystery with
an excellent balance of humor and heart. I loved it." - S. A.
Chakraborty, internationally-bestselling author of The City of
Brass "A Master of Djinn is everything you might expect from Clark:
cinematic action, a radical reimagining of real history, and magic
on every page. I loved it." - Hugo Award winner Alix E. Harrow,
author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January "A delightful whodunnit
full of sly commentary and a wonderfully lived-in steampunk Cairo.
The perfect read when I needed a break from this world to enjoy one
wholly made from Clark's enviable imagination." - Hugo and Nebula
Award-winning Rebecca Roanhorse, author of Trail of Lightning and
Star Wars: Resistance Reborn
"A Master of Djinn has all the tricky twists I want in a police
procedural and all the djinns, magic and wonder I want from
fantasy." - Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo and Nebula award-winning
author of The Calculating Stars "Fascinating! I love the intricate
alt-history world of A Master of Djinn, with its hints at the
changed destinies of nations and ordinary people alike after the
cataclysmic return of magic to the world. Clark gives us an
engaging mystery with a wonderful mix of the fantastic and the
mundane, chain-smoking crocodile gods, stuffy marid librarians, and
a brilliant heroine with a dashing bowler." - Django Wexler, author
of The Thousand Names "Alternate historic Cairo comes to vivid life
in Clark's first novel. His cosmopolitan city includes not only
humans from all around the world, but supernatural creatures
aplenty. When their interests and agendas collide, the result is
the kind of book you don't want to put down." - World Fantasy and
Hugo Award finalist Marie Brennan
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