G. Willow Wilson's Books
Jul.03.2012
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her...
Oct.14.2010
This title explores the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use...
Jun.01.2010
Blythe's first test flight in Clearfleet's new hyperprax plane doesn't go as she planned. Dogged by a strange illness, she arrives at Sky 1 disoriented and off her guard before meeting an old friend who has a secret she is totally unprepared to hear. From there, out of desperatation to unravel the truth from the lies, Blythe makes a dangerous journey to the Northwest Frontier...
Jun.01.2010
The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world. When G. Willow Wilson—already an accomplished writer on modern religion and the Middle East at just twenty-seven—leaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at...
Oct.20.2009
In this second volume, Blythe's mysterious rescuer reveals the truth behind one of the most shocking disappearances in aviation history - a secret tied to the origin of hyperprax flight. As the race to find the device begins, Blythe must master her skills as a hyperpract. But her fear of heights may get the better of her. Blythe has traveled through a country that doesn't...
Mar.10.2009
"I've read the first half-dozen issues of AIR and been enjoying it no end...it starts off as Rushdie and parachutes off into Pynchon." --Neil Gaiman
An acrophobic stewardess is drawn into a clandestine world of flight by a man who may or may not be a terrorist. Follow Blythe as she navigates a secret war for the sky, and discovers a destiny like nothing she's ever...
Nov.07.2007
Journalist G. Willow Wilson brings an extraordinary fable to Vertigo Comics with CAIRO, an original graphic novel illustrated by Turkish artist M.K. Perker, himself a contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker. Set in bustling modern-day Cairo, this magical-realism thriller interweaves the lives of a drug runner, a down-on-his-luck journalist, an American expatriate, a...
Blythe, a young, acrophobic stewardess, discovers a strange, new reality beyond the ordinary world of air travel.
In this final AIR volume, Blythe returns to work to find a surprise: the Hyperwing 307, the sleekest and most advanced airship ever built. It will be hers to pilot – if she survives a series of baffling tests.
Then, on her way to a final confrontation with the Etesians...
G. Willow Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people. You should read what she writes.”
—Neil Gaiman
About G. Willow
G. Willow Wilson is an American author and essayist who divides her time between Egypt and the US. Her articles about modern religion and the Middle East have appeared in publications including the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and The Canada...
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Causes G. Willow Wilson Supports
Medicins Sans Frontiers, The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund