G. Willow Wilson





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G. Willow Wilson

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August 31, 1982 in The United States

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Umberto Eco, EM Forster, Peter Milligan, Neil Gaiman

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Average rating: 3.58 · 1,807 ratings · 372 reviews · 10 distinct works
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 525 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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The Butterfly Mosque: A You...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions
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Air, Vol. 1: Letters from L...
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3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Air, Vol. 2: Flying Machine
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3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Air, Vol. 3: Pureland
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3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Alif the Unseen
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 46 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 8 editions
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Mystic: The Tenth Apprentice
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011
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Vixen: Return of the Lion
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3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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" A highly enjoyable mix of computer speak, mythology, politics and philosophy, set in an Emirate during a period of civil unrest. It's a relevant AND literary-light novel by a female American convert to Islam with comics that have been published by... "
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" ...is a tour de force of storytelling!!

Young computer hackers plying their trade in an unnamed Middle Eastern Police State...risking life, limb, and motherboards...all in the name of Freedom. Then....this book appears...an ancient tome that wasn't... "
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Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
" Religion, metaphor, rebellion. The Quran and the Internet. Hackers, effrits, and sheikhs. Douglas Hofstadter shoutouts.

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“It’s a strange feeling, praying into your hands, filling the air between them with words. We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small — the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.”
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“The force that played havoc with the cortisol in my blood was the same force that helped my body recover; if I felt better one day and worse the next, it was unchanged. It chose no side. It gave the girl next to me in the hospital pneumonia; it also gave her white blood cells that would resist the infection. And the atoms in those cells, and the nuclei in those atoms, the same bits of carbon that were being spun into new planets in some corner of space without a name. My insignificance had become unspeakably beautiful to me. That unified force was a god too massive, too inhuman, to resist with the atheism in which I had been brought up. I became a zealot without a religion.”
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“Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.”
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Marissa Devout hey! Thought i'd like to say how much i LOVE your book: The butterfly mosque, it's simply wonderful!


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