The Half-Made World is a novel about America set in a fictional world (many such cases) there's a fake europe, an eastern seaboard, an endless frontier melting eventually into a primordial Pacific but the most interesting thing about it is the conflict of the Gun and the Line
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the Gun are a lodge of demons. they possess humans (by contract), grant them inhuman strength, amazing resilience; and force the humans to work their will the Gun are romantic and destructive, and the Gun are losing to the Line
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the Line are Lovecraftian trains, stretching out from the East. they command cities of wretches, beaten down, asexual, armed with horrifying weapons, slaughtering coldly the Gun win occasional wild tactical victories but they are inexorably driven back
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the Red Valley Republic is sandwiched between these entities. founded by the General. a Washington figure. legendary. a man from before the time of Line and Gun. his vision is fading and he is dying thus, more or less, ends The Half-Made World
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there's a sequel where a renewed Republic, somehow, ends Line and Gun; and trains are simply trains once more and guns the domain of mortal men. how is this brought about? more or less, a miracle
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Underrated book
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