A review by rcgrimes
The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman

5.0

This is the first steam punk book I ever read. And it makes me mad. Mostly because it is the standard that all other books will have to follow and compete with. I was blown away by it all. I could only picture the American West in the 1870s being settled and explored and people just wanting to get away from the world, always knowing that it didn't take place there. It is excellently written and portrays a beauty and savagery of the expansion of the world. If there was only a place today that was "half-made" for us all to get away to. All I can say is read it and then make a friend read it.