![]() ![]() In fact, even though it does share a lot of steam-punk ideas they are mostly limited to it's setting (the American wild west, and it's Victorian era setting) it's actually much more unique than that. I bought this book on a whim really thinking it looked like an interesting steam-punk novel. And either side will do anything to understand how. In its rooms lies an old general of the Red Republic, a man whose shattered mind just may hold the secret to stopping the Gun and the Line. Liv Alverhyusen, a doctor of the new science of psychology, travels to the edge of the made world to a spiritually protected mental institution in order to study the minds of those broken by the Gun and the Line. To the west lies a vast, uncharted world, inhabited only by the legends of the immortal and powerful Hill People, who live at one with the earth and its elements. Now they're just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappeared - the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. ![]() What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. Here is a fantastical reimagining of the American West that draws its influence from steampunk, the American Western tradition, and magical realism. ![]()
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