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Lädt ... The Half-Made World (2010. Auflage)von Felix Gilman
Werk-InformationenThe Half-Made World Gilman, Felix ( Author ) Jul-19-2011 Paperback von Felix Gilman
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I'm having a REALLY hard time rating this because I absolutely loved it but, to be extremely basic, I just didn't feel good about the ending. Everything about the characters and the world and the atmosphere of the book was gripping and incredible, and the horrors very real. In a struggle between Order and Chaos, a Wild West-esque setting is a good ones, and here it seems relevant that Order and Chaos are basically both amoral forces of total destruction, chewing up the world between them. It's a fantastic setting. I just wanted more closure at the end, more of a payoff to all that wonderful buildup. I don't know how to categorize this. It was kind of a steampunk fantasy western novel about the problems with modern civilization. The world is a world much like this one, only the west is not only untamed, but un-made: the rules of physics don't yet apply there; there are monsters, and magic, and half-human (or twice-human, depending on your perspective) natives, and the world kind of ends at some point beyond which is only a sea of churning and undifferentiated matter. There are guns, and then there are Guns, with demons riding them; there is the Line, sort of a monstrous railroad that turns everything in its path into an industrialized wasteland; and there is the Republic, cowering in the shadows of them both. The heroine is an eastern psychologist with an opium habit. It's almost meta-fiction, with the degree to which the author has taken points of history and philosphy and analogized them using solid concrete metaphors (eg. the Line and the Gun). If I know you in real life, expect me to tell you to read this one. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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 theGun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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I will not be reading the sequel. Mr. Gilman has already stolen too much of my time. I even place a little of the blame on my younger self of however many years ago who added this to my to-read list.