The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik

In Dec 2014, Usman led Pakistan’s first speculative fiction workshop in Lahore in conjunction with Desi Writers Lounge and Liberty Books.

His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Tor.com, The Apex Book of World SF, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Black Static among other venues. The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, by Usman Malik Tor.com Recommended Salman pursues the truth behind stories his grandfather told him about an impoverished princess he used to know back in Pakistan and the Jinn that protected her. His fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award and been nominated for the Nebula. He reads Sufi poetry, likes long walks, and occasionally strums naats on the guitar. Malik is a Pakistani vagrant camped in Florida. A young Pakistani American professor, haunted by mystical tales of a Moghul princess and a jinn, chases the truth back to his late grandfathers childhood home.

The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik