The Rise Of Ransom City
The sequel to the Half-Made World, coming in November 2012. More soon.
Lightbringers and Rainmakers
A novella set on the Western Rim, in the town of Disorder, featuring Professor Harry Ransom, Lightbringer, and his wonderful Ransom Process.
Available at Tor.com or for Kindle.
The Half-Made World
"This enormously creative, complex tale uses every trope -- and transforms it -- in the service of a greater vision that never really forgets its roots. Alternately lyrical and scatalogical, brutal and haunted . . . for all its wild adventures, the object of attention in The Half-Made World is no less than America itself."
-- Locus
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. 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 the Gun and the Line. And either side will do anything to understand how.
"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. Le Guin
"New and exciting and well worth reading" -- io9
"The Half-Made World takes the brutality of the wild west and twists it into an epic fantasy that left me staggered. It brings the sense of wonder back to fantasy by creating a complex and visceral world unlike anything I've read. This is a stunning novel."
--Mary Robinette Kowal, John W. Campbell award winning author of Shades of Milk and Honey
"Great fantastical fiction has a way of suggesting metaphorical connections without insisting on them . . . The Half Made World does this with an exhilarating level of self-assurance."
-- The Onion AV Club (A)
"A much-needed breath of fresh air in dystopian fiction. Utterly compelling. Trembling with invention and adventure. Reads as if it's the love-child of McCarthy's The Road and Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Highly recommended!"
-- Eric Van Lustbader, New York Times bestselling author of Last Snow
"Represents everything great science fiction should aspire to."
-- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"'The Half-Made World' has a strangely Victorian feel, which I quite enjoy. It's refreshingly unlike any other novel I've read. Felix Gilman writes like a modern-day Dickens drunk on rich invention and insane war."
--Stephen Donaldson, author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
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