The Rise of Ransom City
core novel 2012 The Half-Made World
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.78 (1,027 ratings, collected 2026-11-03) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765329400 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Harry Ransom is a snake-oil salesman and self-taught inventor who drifts through the towns of the western frontier, raising money to perfect the Ransom Process, a device he believes will give everyone free light and power. His episodic adventures take him across the same war-torn land shaped by the Line, which spreads industry and control, and the Gun, which spreads violence and robbery, and among the free settlements and the magic-using Folk who survive in the West. Along the way he briefly crosses paths with the psychologist Liv Alverhuysen and the renegade Gun agent John Creedmoor. The story is Ransom's own account of how his invention and his reputation grew.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Half-Made World
- Series: The Half-Made World core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Felix Gilman
Notes
- Set after the first novel and centred on a different protagonist.
- From the series record (The Half-Made World): Two novels set at the unfinished western edge of a world divided between the machine-worshipping Line and the violent Gun.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Half-Made World: position 2 of 2: previous The Half-Made World (2010)
Sources
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