Description

A gritty and dark journey in to the creativity of one of science-fiction's most talented writers, this series provides all nine stories of the Budayeen collected together in one archival-quality quantity, readily available for the very first time in more than 20 decades. This is actually the Budayeen: a gritty blend of Bogart's Casablanca, New Orleans' once seedy French Quarter, and an advanced Islamic town, all-welded together and serving whilst the ideal background for Marid, a drug-addled cop and anti-hero of world-type percentage. It is a selection to get lost in, from the town's sordid underbelly for the attractive excesses of the "intercourse moddy" business, from the high, historic mosque systems towards the powerful-voiced muezzin calling the faithful to day devotions, the Budayeen advances to unexpected life, producing statements to its truth as just the greatest science-fiction may.