The Haunting of Tram Car 015

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Tom Doherty Associates, Feb 19, 2019 - Fiction - 160 pages
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P. Djèlí Clark returns to the historical fantasy universe of "A Dead Djinn in Cairo", with the otherworldly adventure novella The Haunting of Tram Car 015.

Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities — handling a possessed tram car.

Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner Agent Onsi Youssef are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient automatons in a race against time to protect the city from an encroaching danger that crosses the line between the magical and the mundane.

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User Review  - ladycato - LibraryThing

I read this as part of the Nebula Award finalist packet. Clark's gem of a novella is set in an alternate history Cairo, where magic and djinn are infused with daily life in a city that has become one ... Read full review

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User Review  - souloftherose - LibraryThing

In an alternate, steampunk-ish 1912 Cairo a pair of detectives investigate reports of a haunting in one of the city's tram cars. I enjoyed the unusual setting and world-building but this felt a little ... Read full review

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About the author (2019)

P. Djéli Clark is the author of the novellas The Black God’s Drums (August 2018), winner of a 2019 Alex Award from the American Library Association, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (February 2019). His short stories have twice made the Locus Recommended Reading List and have appeared in online venues such as Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, and in print anthologies including Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. He is loosely associated with the quarterly FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons. He currently resides in New England and ruminates on issues of diversity in speculative fiction at his blog The Disgruntled Haradrim.

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TitleThe Haunting of Tram Car 015
AuthorP. Djèlí Clark
PublisherTom Doherty Associates, 2019
ISBN1250294789, 9781250294784
Length160 pages
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Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure
Fiction / Fantasy / Historical
Fiction / Science Fiction / Steampunk
  
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