This one is hard to nail down. It evokes Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Aladdin while remaining fresh and unique. Alif, a hacker genius and Dina, his veiled Moslem sidekick, take us on an odyssey between their world, an unnamed Arab state which is about to explode, and the world of the supernatu...
Once I'd glanced at the list of nominees for the World Fantasy Awards, I simply had to give Alif the Unseen a try. I'm glad I did! It's one of my first science fiction/fantasy reads set in Arab and Islamic cultures. I need to read many more.I love Wilson's play on the word "unseen". Not only is the ...
In an unnamed Middle Eastern state, Alif is a grey-hat hacker who provides online privacy and security. But then his aristocratic lover sends him an ancient book of fairy tales, and shortly thereafter he's on the run for his life. His only allies are his childhood friend Dina, an old sheikh, and o...
Alif the Unseen is nothing if not unique. In part a fantasy world where The Thousand and One Days is a book that belongs to the jinn, the book has an urban fantasy flair to it. But it is also part sociopolitical commentary in the form of Alif, a hacktivist who finds himself caught in the middle of a...
The book is ok, but it seems like it is a YA book (even though it is not filed that way at the library). YA is not my thing & I have many other books sitting here that I'd rather be reading, so I'm going to stop reading. I made it through about 175 pages (not quite halfway) -- it sort-of reminds me ...
I became interested in this book because it appeared to be a novelist’s interpretation of the Arab Spring. The story involves a young computer hacker living in a totalitarianly governed Arab state who clandestinely provides online firewall protection to dissident groups. The hacker is known by his ...
I picked up this book at my library at a strangely perfect time. It was the day after the Boston Marathon bombings, and during the debate about CISPA. I had no idea this was relevant to what was going on in the news - I had only heard that it was good fantasy. In fact, Alif the Unseen by G. Willow W...
Rating: 3.5 StarsAlif the Unseen is one of those obscure novels that not many people have actually heard of, but, thanks to my numerous GoodReads friends who read such varied genres, it somehow came to my attention. Needless to say, all my friends have LOVED this book. For me, though, Alif the Unsee...
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