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pinterest ex libris felix gilman s the half made world when i traveled to the us for the first time several years ago i had the strangest realization moving from one state to another i felt that us as a country for all of its traditions and age was still a young one i came to this realization because my first travels abroad were to asia and europe in those countries you could feel the history of the land in every step you take where the next corner held a castle or temple well except for singapore which felt relatively new but you could sense that its traditions were more than likely borrowed from its neighboring countries in the us you could say their mythology flourished in the early days of its industrialization before science and technology cleared away all ambiguity and mystery i make this point because if there s one subgenre i m fascinated it s the fantastical mirror of american history of the old west which some have tagged as weird west digression i say mirror here in the same sense that epic fantasy supposedly mirrors however distorted the european medieval period with its kings and wars and dragons it may be funny to say this but i actually gained a sense of history of other countries because of the fantasy genre which mostly focuses on the european kind two examples of the weird west subgenre that easily come to mind is mark sumner s devil s tower which had magic coming into the world during the american civil war and stephen king s dark tower series which mashes up the old west as a byronic fantasy land with six guns unfortunately this american mythology rewritten into a type of old west fantasy comes in few and far in between fortunately now there s felix gilman s the half made world which makes a good try in envisioning a steampunkish weird west in the half made world there are two factions vying for the making of the newly shaped western lands on one hand there is the line a dark retelling of the industrialized american north circa the civil war under the influence of dark gods of order in the shape of demonic train engines who lay tracks across the new territories though these gods offer their followers a science that drives the smoke belching engines of the new age the price of the new order leaves their worshipers nearly mad on the other hand there are the agents of the gun a cult like loose group of outlaws and murderers both men and women who bear supernatural spirits in their totem like guns these guns bequeath their agents powers from strength and speed fast healing and near invulnerability though they can be killed these agents sow chaos across the land in the cause of their singular independence from any authority and sometimes even from their own guns as the story opens a third faction has just been crushed by the line and the gun a group of towns that called themselves the red republic and had gloriously refused to align themselves to either factions in the dying days of the republic its famous general had been driven mad by the bombs of the line just as he discovered a secret that could give either factions a power against each other or destroy both of them completely into this story comes doctor liv alverhuysen a psychologist escaping the death of her husband and her sheltered life in the civilized cities of the east by treating the maddened victims of the war crossing her path is john creedmore an agent sent to find the general even as the forces of the line go on the march like other works that have preceded his gilman creates a creative analogue of the american old west mythology that envisions the clash of the anarchy and free spirit of the wild west against the age of industrialization that had descended on the us moreover gilman plays no favorites among the two factions liv has equal chances of being killed by either the lone gunman creedmore or by the low level line officer lowry and the army he leads however even the characters carry the externalized conflict of the gun and the line i e order versus chaos within them as gilmore avoids the easy generalizations creedmore may be an old agent a feat worthy of the description for the simple reason that despite their powers they are still too few against their enemies and they can still die but creedmore is disillusioned by the freedom given him by his demonic overlords and wants only to be free of their control on the other hand lowry is a cog in a giant machine but like walter mitty living in an orwellian 1984 like society he rationalizes away his drive for glory by going after creedmore and liv as simply following orders but the half made world isn t just about conceptualization and world building as gilman deftly writes a good story juggling the main narrative with enough flashback scenes to flesh out the characters he then brings up the level of drama to compensate for the slight drag in the chase scene partway through the book giving us a look at how creedmore and lowry would act separate from their gods sometimes it seems like gilman is rambling far too slow with his story but he ties the narrative back together again all in all gilman scores high points with this book from the main idea to the story though he fills in the external background of eastern cities in rough sketches he more than makes it up by creating a stark picture of the new western lands in the process of being born despite the ravages of war easy violence slavery and ignorance likewise he easily fields questions about the price of free will and the blind worship of gods whether supernatural scientific or philosophical via the characters expressions and actions a good read three paws out of four update here s a more recent review by kirkus of weird west stories out in the wilds posted by banzai cat at 11 19 am no comments labels books reviews email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 10 2013 what game of thrones house do you belong to because everyone needs a games of thrones house right seriously i can t believe how a simple sigil made me assess myself so much makes me think that i ve been overworking myself when i start to think in terms of branding argh posted by banzai cat at 4 43 pm 1 comment labels blog cats email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday march 31 2013 curious cat question unhand my culture varlet after watching quentin tarrantino s django unchained i wondered what discussions had been set off by tarrantino s alt history revenge fantasy movie after all tarrantino s a white guy doing a movie about blacks in american history i m sure this has to stick in someone s craw a quick google check soon pointed me to director spike lee s criticism of the movie despite not having seen it to wit or tweet american slavery was not a sergio leone spaghetti western it was a holocaust my ancestors are slaves stolen from africa i will honor them quick survey question is an opinion justified if the person hasn t seen the movie or read the book let s also thrown in books like fifty shades of grey and twilight into the discussion pot and let simmer for an hour my first thought about this was would it have made a difference to spike lee if a black man had directed the movie obviously the fact that tarrantino s white was be a sore point but were there other factors that would make such cultural appropriation of black history in america by a white man despite the movie s satirical almost absurdist viewpoint um unappropriate or is the color of the skin enough ask a question find the answer i like the point raised by this review which wonders why is tarrantino giving his white audience an escape hatch from the historical crimes with the good white man as opposed to the more black and white inglorious bastards would the movie have been better if it was more unforgiving given that tarrantino didn t pull any punches with his anti nazi movie inglorious bastards it s pretty interesting he took this direction with django unchained personally and after some long thought i suppose my main problem with the movie is tarrantino s basis for his alt western it s not based on actual history but rather on movie history with its obvious influences in spaghetti westerns and blaxploitation films think about it if you re going to present a skewed version of history maybe your perspective shouldn t be skewed enough to begin with right tarrantino s use of movie history as the lens to create his own skewed history unfortunately distorts whatever message he s trying to convey to the point that all the images come out looking like they re from bizarro world undoubtedly questions like these interest me because of concerns raised about writing and cultural appropriation i ve read a bit of the blog requires only that you hate and its intense hatred of western appropriation specifically by paolo bacigalupi here i thought the parallelism of tarrantino s situation especially apt can someone white westerner not from a particular world black asian write about that world the answer i ve heard in return is always yes but with respect and understanding but who s going to judge what is the standard of respect and understanding after all to skew an old saying one s white man s burden is another white man s escape hatch right in tarrantino s case was he respectful of the material or the history what do you think posted by banzai cat at 11 03 pm no comments labels criticism movie email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me banzai cat a blog about books books and more books view my complete profile works short stories walking backwards philippine speculative fiction volume 1 oedipus rex manual magazine first contact philippine speculative fiction volume 2 insomnia philippine genre stories issue 1 brigada philippine speculative fiction volume 3 love and noir in the time of call centers fhm erotica ladies confessional special the war against the city 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help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity of life of the marvelous structure of reality it is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day never lose a holy curiosity albert einstein i am still shocked that so many people are not more creative by which i mean more demanding of themselves the main question we need to ask ourselves is do i try to be necessary to the evolution of language do i try to be original and being original means using the tools necessary to be original not just having the desire to be original pierre boulez men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death thought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible thought is merciless to privilege established institutions and comfortable habit thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid bertrand russell i think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us we need the books that affect us 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