The half made world by felix gilman5/22/2023 ![]() Felix Gilman writes like a modern-day Dickens drunk on rich invention and insane war.” - Stephen R. “The Half-Made World is refreshingly unlike any other novel I've read. Le Guin, National Book Award-winning author of The Farthest Shore and The Left Hand of Darkness “Vivid and accurate prose, a gripping, imaginative story, a terrifically inventive setting, a hard-bitten, indestructible hero, and an intelligent, fully adult heroine-we haven't had a science-fiction novel like this for a long time.” -Ursula K. And the servants of the Line are on the march. John Creedmoor, reluctant Agent of the Gun and would-be gentleman of leisure, travels west, too, looking to steal the secret or die trying. Now Liv Alverhuysen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels west, hoping to heal the general's shattered mind. But locked in his memories is a secret that could change the West forever, and the world's warring powers would do anything to take it from him. ![]() ![]() The Republic is now history, and the last of its generals sits forgotten and nameless in a madhouse on the edge of creation. ![]() The world that now exists has been carved out amid a war between two rival factions: the Line, enslaving the world with industry, and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence. Thirty years ago, the Red Republic fought to remake the West-fought gloriously, and failed. Between the wild shores of uncreation, and the ancient lands of the East lies the vast expanse of the West-young, chaotic, magnificent, war-torn. ![]()
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