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The Half-Made World
The Half-Made World | Felix Gilman
A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realism The world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappeared—the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now they're just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope. To the west lies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the immortal and powerful Hill People, who live at one with the earth and its elements. Liv Alverhyusen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels to the edge of the made world to a spiritually protected mental institution in order to study the minds of those broken by the Gun and the Line. In its rooms lies an old general of the Red Republic, a man whose shattered mind just may hold the secret to stopping the Gun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how.
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craftysilicate
The Half-Made World | Felix Gilman
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On some level I really want to make a joke about this and the fact that Seven Blades in Black is what prompted me to reread this book but I think the joke might just be "haha names the same" which is not a good joke or even really a joke at all.

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craftysilicate
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An unexpected side effect of Seven Blades in Black is that it reminded me that this book exists, though I suspect the similarities will turn out to be superficial. I have read The Half-Made World exactly once, over 10 years ago, and my memory of it is sketchy, so I'm curious to have another look at it. Eventually. Once I finish reading some other things.

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Kinic
The Half-Made World | Felix Gilman
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Despite the fact I‘ve read nearly half of the book in 2017, I‘m starting The Half-Made World over. Nola gives this books a 9/10 comfort rating.

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Squidapus
The Half-Made World | Felix Gilman
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A book with a tremendous concept squandered by bland prose and wasted opportunity. You have a faction run by sentient God trains looking to shape the world into rails and efficiency and half of the world being unfinished raw creation where thoughts can shape reality and somehow, still, it's a chore to read. All the interesting stuff is background and instead you follow bland characters, one who Squidapus doesn't think even mattered to the story!

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MatthewPhillion
The Half-Made World | Felix Gilman
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It's an amazing thing, to find a world of terrible, terrifying beauty you want to visit, to inhabit. Imaginative, unique, elegant, and strange. Worth revisiting more than once.