At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.ĭieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in D ausgeliefert werden. What do readers say about The Rise of Ransom City steampunkish weird western saga professor harry ransom. And either side will do anything to understand how. 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. Felix Gilman - 'The world is only half made. Second, he keeps much of the plot-driving action off-stage. First, he shows rather than tells how history is made by economics, politics and changes in popular belief, not the bravery of heroes. 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 The Rise of Ransom City, Felix Gilman attempts a couple of tricks one really shouldn’t try at home. 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. Now they're just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappeared-the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. 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. And the servants of the Line are on the march.Produktbeschreibung 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. 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. Felix Gilman’s new novel, The Half-Made World, does this with an exhilarating level of self-assurance. 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. paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves and the Gun, a cult of terror and.
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