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	Effendi : the second arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood \| LibraryThing
		Effendi : the second arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
		Felaheen : the Third Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
		However, the characters and the setting are definite strengths and keep one hooked throughout the entire novel.
	www.librarything.com /work/48553 (450 words)

	Broadband and Me: Arabesk Trilogy
		The first Arabesk, Pashazade is a fast moving slick thriller set in a world were the US didn't enter WW1 as a combatant.
		The setting of El Iskandria (which is Alexandria) in Egypt is wonderfully fleshed out with an interesting set of characters acting on differing sets of values that a world with a more Islamic viewpoint would have (although it is more lip service than actuality).
		The plot itself while little more than an interesting detective novel has intricate twists and turns and the central premise of not knowing one's background is handled in a slightly different way which holds interest.
	www.betaroad.com /weblog/archives/000653.html (193 words)

	Bantam Dell Publishing Group: Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
		Perhaps the weirdness of that childhood is why the setting for my Arabesk Trilogy novels often takes readers by surprise.
		I was as much at home in the bustling markets, temples, and holy shrines of these places as I was in the Eurocentric culture to which most of us are accustomed.
		Set in the cosmopolitan city of El Iskandryia, the novel occupies a world where America brokered a peace to the First World War and Germany holds a strong influence over the still-vibrant Ottoman Empire.
	www.randomhouse.com /bantamdell/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553587432&view=qa (568 words)

	Booklog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Not massively exciting, but I suppose it may be of interest to someone, somewhere (perhaps).
		The finale to his Arabesk trilogy, this is what you expect from Jon Grimwood - cyberpunk-style laternative-history.
		I'm happy with a little bit of thinking, but when it comes to resolving a trilogy's worth of questions, I think it's a little annoying to leave it (apparently unintentionally) ambiguous.
	arbitrary.name /books.cgi/scifi/felaheen.html (222 words)

	Felaheen
		Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Arabesk series brings forth a wonderfully edgy world which has echos of Effinger's books, but is in no way a copy.
		The Arabesk books exist in a history where World War I never happened, the Ottoman Empire still exists and the major world powers are the United States, Germany, and France.
		Get the whole trilogy, it is well worth the price.
	www.fast-forward.tv /bookreviews/bookreview_187.html (543 words)

	Next Reads
		Both are trying to change the course of history; one hopes to change the future, and one the past.
		The late Octavia Butler, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, is renowned and beloved as an author of feminist, character-centered science fiction.
		In this 1st book in the Xenogenesis trilogy, as in many of her works, she grapples with concepts of race and sexuality.
	www.nextreads.com /Display2.aspx?SID=00529ee5-6fe3-4f5e-94ff-694c148daa65&N=16786 (1221 words)

	Review
		First published in 2001 in the UK by Earthlight books, then again in 2003 by Pocket in the US, Pashazade begins the celebrated Arabesk trilogy which follows the adventures of a classically noir/cyberpunk misfit landed in the midst of an alien culture ?
		Ashraf may have outgrown his need for the mentor/advisor though, and what he needs to find out, who he is and what he wants, isn?t something that it could have told him anyway.
		There are two other books in this series, which follow Ashraf?s evolution in this city of intrigue, and I highly recommend the entire trilogy.
	www.sfrevu.com /Review-id.php?id=2324 (548 words)

	Emerald City - #93
		He commented, "my sense of what SF does is forever polluted by my bad experience of reading Dune when I was 14." Justina countered that she had had an equally bad experience with Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy, but she knew that she loved SF so reading Asimov just made her determined to one day do better.
		You just have to settle for being one of those rare people who has done his best work in the middle of a trilogy, the area that is generally viewed as an opportunity for marking time and advancing the plot.
		Doubtless if they had been a little smarter, the Parliament of Blooms would have passed a law setting up a state publishing house to produce endless 10-volume fantasy trilogies and sneak them into mortal bookshops when no one is looking.
	www.emcit.com /emcit093.shtml (15512 words)

	Download Arabesk 1.0 - The arabesk screensaver paints colourful symmetric patterns on your screen. - Softpedia
		Download Arabesk 1.0 - The arabesk screensaver paints colourful symmetric patterns on your screen.
		The arabesk screensaver paints colourful symmetric patterns on your screen.
		You choose to let Arabesk use one or two constantly changing colours.
	www.softpedia.com /get/Desktop-Enhancements/Screensavers/Arabesk.shtml (239 words)

	British Fantasy Writers not published in the US - sffworld.com
		Chaz Brenchley wrote the excellent Outremer trilogy (published in the US by Ace in six volumes) : excellent crusader-like fantasy in middle-east setting.
		Graham Edwards wrote the excellent Stone trilogy a couple of years ago.
		John Courtenay Grimwood wrote the excellent Arabesk trilogy.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-12726.html (990 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Effendi: The Second Arabesk: Books: Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pashazade: The First Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
		The setting is North Africa - predominantly the vibrant independent city of El Iskandryia - but it's North Africa located in an alternative-history world where the Ottoman empire made it into the 21st century.
		As in the trilogy's first novel, _Pashazade_, El Iskandryia is a triumph, all crumbling colonial relics, moral policing and seedy tourist nightclubs, French cafes and calls to prayer.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Effendi-Arabesk-Jon-Courtenay-Grimwood/dp/0671773690 (1856 words)

	jwz - recent books
		I like Grimwood quite a bit but the series of books he wrote earlier on have a much different tone than the ones that he wrote more recently.
		He just finished the Arabesk trilogy and it is quite good without being as constantly bleak and nasty as Remix, Redrobe and Lucifer's Dragon.
		I'd recommend the new trilogy if you liked him at all.
	jwz.livejournal.com /385981.html (1996 words)

	taliesin's log (voices of women)
		A step ahead of me (eyes to the right at his place for the "Dead Trees"), Charlie's given us a brief review of 'Felaheen', the "capstone" to Jon Courtenay Grimwood's 'Arabesk' trilogy.
		Since Raf is a glutton for trouble, the man he's investigating is Zara's dad, his would-be father-in-law, Hamzah Quintrimala.
		Since 'Pashazade: The First Arabesk' did much of the scene-setting (as did I in my review of it here last September), Grimwood is more sparing with his fine brushstrokes for the city itself and even stronger on character, to equally potent effect and with as many twists, turns and tributaries as the Nile.
	radio.weblogs.com /0120356/2004/04/29.html (1192 words)

	Bantam Dell Publishing Group: Effendi by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
		Masterfully blending speculative fiction and hard-boiled mystery, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s acclaimed Arabesk series plunges readers into a world eerily familiar and shockingly unpredictable.
		Here a troubled detective follows a trail of clues through a city where innocence itself may be a thing of the past.…
		“If you’re not reading Jon Courtenay Grimwood, then you don’t know how subtle and daring fiction can be.” —Michael Marshall Smith, author of Spares and One of Us “Fast, furious, fun and elegant, the Arabesk trilogy is one of the best things to hit the bookstores in a while.” —SFRevu
	randomhouse.com /bantamdell/catalog/display.pperl?0553587447&view=print (298 words)

	John Courtenay Grimwood--Pashazade
		Grimwood's fifth novel (first of a projected trilogy) is a SF/mystery hybrid set in an alternate world in which Germany won the First World War, and the Ottoman Empire never collapsed.
		Egypt is an autonomous province of the Empire; on its Mediterranean shore sits the free city of El Iskandryia, where sybaritic luxury rubs shoulders with desperate poverty, and the strict, ancient codes of Islam coexist uneasily with the decadent excesses of the modern world.
		Caveats aside, Pashazade is a well-crafted and absorbing novel, and a welcome step forward for Grimwood into a more thoughtful, less frenetic style.
	www.sff.net /people/victoriastrauss/ReviewPashazade.html (700 words)

	Reviews - icsf
		A very interesting and enjoyable start to the series.
		Effendi - I think this is probably the weakest of the opening trilogy of this (apparently 9 part) series.
		There were two many plots trying to go on at the same time and hence some of them just didn't get enough time to develop, notably the murdered tourist bit.
	www.union.ic.ac.uk /scc/icsf/php/reviews_view.php?id=2999 (295 words)

	Books : Felaheen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Because the box containing the test stated that all computers were to be off-line and no other people were to be in the room when the test was taken.
		To protect the Emir and to uncover the assassin, former cop turned private investigator Ashraf Bey, who may be another unacknowledged offspring of the prolific Emir is hired.
		The Third Arabesk alternate history Ottoman Empire Noir (see PASHAZADE AND EFFENDI) is a terrific who-done-it starring a fabulous hard boiled sleuth who is softened by his niece.
	www.cosyreading.info /0553383787/Felaheen.shtml (1225 words)

	An Ergodic Walk » quick notes on recent reads
		The Arabesk Trilogy (Pashezade, Effendi, Felaheen) (Jon Courtenay Grimwood)—More Arabian sci-fi!
		The trilogy is set in a world in which Germany won WWI and the Ottoman Empire still exists.
		The action centers on El Iskandriya and the prodigal Ashraf Bey, who is thrust into the middle of more intrigue than you can shake a stick at.
	www.ergodicity.net /?p=640 (695 words)

	Felaheen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I found “Felaheen” to be a disappointing conclusion to Grimwood’s “Arabesk” trilogy.
		I kept hoping for things to really fall together and start making sense, but that was the one thing it never did.
		However, if you were hoping that the third one would sit up and start making sense, you’ll be disappointed, as I was.
	home.earthlink.net /~karen20000/Felaheen.htm (547 words)

	Jon Courtenay Grimwood Interview
		SFC: Although the ‘Arabesk Trilogy’ is set in an alternative North Africa where the Ottoman Empire is still powerful, your descriptions, especially of architecture, are striking.
		There was no such catalyst in the ‘Arabesk Trilogy’ to generate reform and the ills of your world result from unchallenged decadence.
		SFC: ‘The Arabesk Trilogy’ could easily take its place in mainstream literary fiction.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /sfnews2/03_aug/news0803_5.shtml (2973 words)

	Criminally Under-Rated Authors - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		series, I have never thought about it, but is one of the best trilogies I have ever read.
		I liked Marillier's 'Sevenwater' Trilogy more than aSoFaI.
		Can't really say which one is better written though, since both are as different as one can be and still stay within the same genre...
	p080.ezboard.com /fasoiaffrm7.showMessage?topicID=2981.topic (1450 words)

	MarsDust - The Loudest Voice in Fandom
		It reads as if Neal Stephenson had gone to live in Egypt for a couple of years then re-wrote “When Gravity Fails,” except that doesn’t begin to do it justice.
		Unfortunately, as I understand it, Grimwood has had difficulty finding a US publisher for this trilogy (the first volume of which was runner-up for the 2001 Clarke award); the Middle Eastern setting seems to have been a marketing turn-off.
		At this point, I probably ought to put a word in for Cory Doctorow, except he’s quite capable of speaking up for himself.
	www.marsdust.com /strossint.htm (2979 words)

	ketan.org >> books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A couple of weeks back, I read through John C. Wright's trilogy of "The Golden Transcendence." As is obvious from the title, this is a series of SF books.
		I can understand why Neal Stephenson chose to set his massive Baroque Cycle trilogy in this time, and why he included an appearance by Peter.
		I had it mostly figured it out by the end, but it would have been nice to feel less clueless in the middle of it.
	ketan.org /books (15049 words)

	Amazon.ca: Grimwood: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Replay by Ken Grimwood (Paperback - May 26 1998)
		The Arabesk Trilogy by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Paperback - Sep 1 2008)
		Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Paperback - Sep 13 2007)
	www.amazon.ca /s?ie=UTF8&index=books-ca&field-author=Grimwood&page=1 (403 words)

	The Alien Online - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror News, Reviews, Articles and more... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The third 'Ashraf Bey mystery', and the final part of JCG's Arabesk trilogy, the highly apt sub-title cuts straight to the heart of the matter and the main topic of the tale: just who is Ashraf Bey?
		In the first two volumes of the series it has been suggested that he might be the son of one of the most powerful national leaders in Grimwood's alternate modern-day Africa, or possibly the mere bastard offspring of a Swedish hitch-hiker (his mother knew, but for some reason she never told him the full story).
		No bad thing, as long as you know this is what you're signing up for; it means you can sit back and enjoy the smoothness of the ride and the glorious scenery, and stop wondering where and when the driver is going to stamp down on the accelerator.
	www.thealienonline.net /blog/2005_05_01_tao_book_archive.asp (6114 words)

	Fragments weblog > Individual Entry > Holiday books
		I tend to read several novels at the same time, enjoying how otherwise incongruous storylines suddenly co-exist and sometimes intermingle, so next up were the last 150 or so pages of reMix.
		I think this novel isn't quite as good as the Arabesk trilogy (Pashazade, Effendi, Felaheen), but it's still a great read and carries all the detail of Courtenay Grimwood's other novels.
		The story is set in a futuristic time and the author is working hard to flesh out the possibilities of a world much like ours, but determined by a different course of history.
	fragment.nl /archive/2003/08/27/holiday_books/index.php (1802 words)

	Book Emporium - Felaheen 0553383787
		Set in a 21st-century Ottoman Empire, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s acclaimed Arabesk series is a noir action-thriller with an exotic twist.
		Here an ex-cop with nothing to lose finds himself on the trail of a man he doesn’t believe in: his father.
		“Fast, furious, fun and elegant, the Arabesk trilogy is one of the best things to hit the bookstores in a while.” –SF Revu
	www.bookemporium.com /bookdetails.cfm?isbn=0553383787 (217 words)

	Emerald City - #114
		The final volume of the trilogy, The Tainted, was a finalist for the recent Aurealis Awards (and it is absolutely no shame to get beaten by Sean Williams).
		(I note that he doesn’t quote Gwyneth Jones anywhere, which perhaps means he needs to read her Aleutian Trilogy.) But again the objective of an SF writer is not always to produce a believable alien.
		Pride of place goes to Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s Pashazade, the first in his award-winning Arabesk trilogy.
	www.emcit.com /emcpr114.shtml (18947 words)

	Amazon.com: Effendi: The Second Arabesk (Arabesk): Books: Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Discover new releases in your favorite categories, popular pre-orders and bestsellers, exclusive author interviews and podcasts, special sales, and more.
		In the entertaining second entry in Grimwood's Arabesk trilogy (after Pashazade), Ashraf Bey is now the chief of detectives in the fictional Middle Eastern city of El Iskandryia, located in an alternate future where the Ottoman Empire still exists.
		While tensions between fundamentalism and nationalism roil the metropolis in a way that will be familiar to followers of current events, Bey must identify and thwart a vicious serial murderer who mutilates his victims.
	www.amazon.com /Effendi-Arabesk-Jon-Courtenay-Grimwood/dp/0743202856 (2192 words)

	Bookgasm » Blog Archive » 9 Tail Fox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Throw in underground science, the siege of Stalingrad and an invisible celestial fox, and there’s literally something for everyone.
		Although some of the themes evident in Grimwood’s acclaimed “Arabesk” trilogy persist, he’s taken a step forward with 9 TAIL FOX, with stronger clarity of narrative accompanying the always-snappy dialogue.
		Grimwood is establishing himself as a power in the genre, and hopefully the strength of this novel – and END OF THE WORLD BLUES, which won’t be released in the U.S. until September – eventually will convince someone that Grimwood’s work is worthy of simultaneous publishing à la Richard K. Morgan.
	www.bookgasm.com /reviews/sci-fi/9-tail-fox (452 words)

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