I spent way too much time reading this book. It was well written. It had great visualizations an amazing set up. It also had not one admirable caricature and was EPICALLY disappointing. Imagine if you will: Frodo (from The Lord of the Rings) is all the way up at the top of the volcano ready to throw...
“We did not come to the service of the Gun because we wanted to enjoy victory, but because we wanted to lose magnificently.” Pg. 288.Gilman taps into the ever-reinventing themes of the tragic hero in the The Half-Made World, a steampunk/new weird western-style epic. The plot follows the stories o...
Dr. Liv Alverhuysen, a young widowed psychology doctor is going to the edge of the made world, or close to it. Out West. To help with victims of the four century war between The Guns, The Engines, and Hill Folk. All of the victims including the ones who had their minds shattered.Creedmoor, we mee...
Meh. All teddibly clever, and yet it left me stone cold. They could all get eaten by a giant space goat and I'd pretty much breathe a sigh of relief at the prospect of not hearing about them any longer. Nice prose in the service of... ??? I ended up irritated and dissatisfied. Like attending a...
Featured on parajunkee.com A tale of fantastical proportions, Gilman's mind and his imagination astounded me in The Half-Made World. I've never been a fan of westerns, leaving those novels and movies in the "maybe someday" category. What drew me to Gilman's novel though, was that it was a re-imagine...
Really fantastic, imaginative adventure set in something a bit like America's Wild West of old. Like many Westerns, the main characters are damaged people in pursuit of their own interests, demonstrating occasional bursts of heroism. But unlike most Westerns, people are queer, female, and not nece...
My favorite thing about this book is the world, which is original and complex and imaginative, yet so thoroughly grounded in realism and sensory detail that it feels more like historical fantasy than Weird Fantasy. It’s as unique as something by, say, Mieville, but without having that weirdness-for-...
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