If you don't mind a bit of blood and the darker side of the human psyche and are up for an excellent puzzle to solve, Strange Pictures is right up your alley.
Sayaka Murata has a talent for looking through a unique lens at parts of our world that seem everyday, mundane, and which most of us take for granted. Vanishing World is no exception.
A retelling of the Aladdin story, complete with wish-granting Jinn, set in a cyberpunk world inspired by southeast Asia sounded like a brilliant idea. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport isn't a perfect book by any stretch, but it gets some things right and they're a lot of fun.
Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went viral. He’s the agency’s hottest new star, or at least he wants his coworker crush to think so. But while he’s busy drooling over his future corner office, the walls crumble around him.