Guns are demon-possessed guns who glory in chaos and bloodshed, granting their servants superhuman powers of healing and athleticism in return for acts of violent barbarism.
And it’s a battleground for two great powers, inhuman in both scope and motivation: the Gun and the Line. But while the west is a place of new possibilities, it’s also more dangerous and less human than the thoroughly mundane east. Liv hopes to…well, her motivation isn’t totally clear, but she hopes to change her life somehow for the better, let’s say. The Half-Made World starts off strong as Liv Alverhuysen leaves the old east to travel west into a literally new world that congeals around its new settlers. It’s a weakness of mine as a reader, I guess: no matter how wonderful the writing, no matter how elevated and literary the sensibility, I still want an interesting plot that really goes somewhere. True, I’d also heard that it didn’t really provide a sense of closure, but when the rest of the book is this good, does it matter?Īfter finishing, I am forced to conclude: it does matter, at least a little bit, at least to me. I had heard all these things praised when the novel came out in 2010, so as I read I was kicking myself. The writing was superb, the setting was fascinating, and the conflict between the Gun and the Line was a surprisingly compelling metaphor.
While reading The Half-Made World, I was wondering why on earth I had waited so long. The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman Novemat 12:35 pm | Posted in 2 stars | 1 Comment
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