“Felix Gilman's The Half-Made World takes the brutality of the Wild West and twists it into an epic fantasy that left me staggered. Highly recommended!” - Eric Van Lustbader, New York Times bestselling author Reads as if it's the love child of McCarthy's The Road and Le Guin's The Dispossessed. “A much-needed breath of fresh air in dystopian fiction. Donaldson, New York Times bestselling author of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 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.

St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series).

The half made world