“The Half-Made World takes the brutality of the wild west and twists it into an epic fantasy that left me staggered. We haven't had a science fiction novel like this for a long time.” -Ursula LeGuin on The Half Made World “Gripping, imaginative, terrifically inventive. “Like The Half-Made World that came before it, The Rise of Ransom City brings us a re-imagined tale of America's Old West, mixing steampunk and magic realism to great effect.” - Kirkus Reviews ('Best SF/F Reads In November') on Rise of Ransom City “This sequel to The Half-Made World stands well alone written like an old-fashioned memoir, it seamlessly blends whimsy with deadly seriousness.” - Publishers Weekly on Rise of Ransom City I scratch my head in awe.” - Francis Spufford, author of Red Plenty on Rise of Ransom City Never has fantasy been darker, cleverer, more sly, or more touching in its refraction of our own world. Felix Gilman's theme is nothing less than the Matter of America, the story at the root of the whole continent. “A fantasy that Mark Twain would have been proud to write. He is a fresh and original voice in fantasy.” - Lavie Tidhar, author of Osama on Rise of Ransom City “Felix Gilman has a sly wit and an assured hand. Is this not the joy in reading, no less in being? - enforced attention, the delightsome entrapment, a thorough-going filling and the rare repose of one's having been emptied - utterly, gratefully - out?” - Gordon Lish on Rise of Ransom City Gilman's appeal promptly poured itself all over me, and I, by golly, in superb reciprocity, pored all over his pages from first to last. But will you look at what's happened? Mr. “On my being handed the book now in your hands, I promised myself - tacitly, of course - I'd only take a peek. But his genius is not going unnoticed, and when he crosses paths with the two most wanted outlaws in the 'unmade world,' his stage becomes even larger and presents an opportunity more lucrative than any of his scams or inventions combined. Town by town he is building up a bankroll and leaving hope in his wake because one of his inventions is actually working. But Harry Ransom, half con man, half mad inventor, is setting the edge of the world aglow. Now, in the amazing sequel Rise of Ransom City, Liv is lost on the edge of the world with Creedmor, an agent of the Gun, and the powerful Line will stop at nothing to find them. A doctor of psychology, Liv Alverhuysen, was caught in the middle, unknowingly guarding a secret that both sides would do anything to have. The Line was winning city by city, enslaving the populations it conquered.

The Line, a cult of Industry, and the Gun, a mission of Chaos, were engaged in a war for dominance.

In The Half-Made World, Felix Gilman took readers deep into a world on the cusp of forging an identity.

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