Saad Z. Hossain's Kundo Wakes Up is a companion to the Ignyte and
Locus Award-Nominated novella The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday.
Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the
all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving the
dying city of Chittagong--along with all its remaining residents--to
continue its inexorable fall into the sea.
Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes
searching for his missing wife, only to uncover more inexplicable
disappearances. And so Kundo and a group of motley companions embark on
a tumultuous journey through an overwhelming maze made up of
Chittagong's neighborhoods, the hidden backrooms of video game parlors,
and the depths of cyberspace, culminating in the realm of the djinn
themselves, in search of love, redemption, and a good meal.