The Rise of Ransom City

from kgodey

The Rise of Ransom City is the sequel to The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman, but also works very well as a stand alone book. It's one of the best second books I've read; it manages to avoid the sophomore slump by shifting focus to a new character, “Professor” Harry Ransom, who we saw briefly in ...

from GingerbreadMan

Quite a few of us here at the 2013 Challenge group have been pretty taken by "The Half-Made World", the previous book in this duology. And appreciation itself aside, I think we can all pretty much agree that is a fairly tough act to follow. Structured almost like an unwinding clock, the perspecti...

from psutto

Brilliant I really wish I'd managed to write a review right after reading this to do it justice. Gilman has followed up on [the half made world] with a stunning sequel. Together they are definitely in my top 10 reads this year. To avoid spoilers I won't sum up the plot except to say that although...

from ohernaes

The story of self-taught inventor Harry Ransom. Created "the ransom process" from something he saw among the Folk. Wants to use it for free energy, but is it also the weapon that the Gun and the Line seeks? It manages to kill a Gun. Baxter, who is working for the Line, talks about it as a disease...

from orkydd

Gilman returns to the 'Half Made World, telling the exploits of the inventor of the marvellous 'Ransom Rrocess', which provides energy and prosperity for all. Possibly.