{"id":2030,"date":"2013-07-10T07:57:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T11:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2013-07-10T07:57:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T11:57:26","slug":"alif-the-unseen-by-g-willow-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"alif the unseen by g willow wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with {{Mira Grant}} (<a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2013\/04\/17\/feed-by-mira-grant\/#.Ud2aa_lebng\">Feed<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2013\/06\/03\/deadline-by-mira-grant\/#.Ud2aaflebng\">Deadline<\/a> reviews), I think I have found a female author I can read.<\/p>\n<p>{{G Willow Wilson}}&#8217;s debut novel, {{Alif the Unseen}} blends technothriller (<em>a la<\/em> {{Cryptonomicon}}), Arab mythology, statism, distrust of the government, and more.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The story follows a young mixed-blood technophyte who has been making his living on providing digital secrecy to whomever wants it. Along with myriad others only referred to by their handles &#8211; Radio Sheikh, The Hand, NewQuarter01, and more &#8211; Alif is not his real name. And like all good stories, there&#8217;s a girl. Well&#8230; 2 girls. And kind of a third.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the story begins, The Hand begins to tighten his grip on on Alif&#8217;s activities, and Alif starts his run from The State.<\/p>\n<p>I want to say more, but that would be the whole story &#8211; Wilson&#8217;s writing is engaging, exotic, prescient, and believable: even the intermixture of Arab myth with current (though not entirely time-dependent) technology is fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Written during the first stages of the &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221;, and still sounding as if it could be happening today, I cannot recommend {{Alif the Unseen}} highly enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with {{Mira Grant}} (Feed &amp; Deadline reviews), I think I have found a female author I can read. {{G Willow Wilson}}&#8217;s debut novel, {{Alif the Unseen}} blends technothriller (a la {{Cryptonomicon}}), Arab mythology, statism, distrust of the government, and more. The story follows a young mixed-blood technophyte who has been making his living on &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2030\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">alif the unseen by g willow wilson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,38,41],"tags":[105,248,324,720,764],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-review","category-technical","tag-arab-spring","tag-djinn","tag-firewall","tag-statism","tag-third-born"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}