The Half-Made World

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Authors: Felix Gilman

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TOR BOOKS BY FELIX GILMAN

The Half-Made World

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FELIX GILMAN

A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
NEW YORK

Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Book One: Out to the Edge of Things

Chapter 1: The Departure ~ 1889 ~
Chapter 2: A Gentleman of Leisure
Chapter 3: The Black File
Chapter 4: Ancient History
Chapter 5: Smile Through Adversity
Chapter 6: Kingstown
Chapter 7: The Long Road West
Chapter 8: The Net
Chapter 9: Kloan
Chapter 10: Gloriana
Chapter 11: Sub-Invigilator Lowry Investigates: Kloan, After the Fire
Chapter 12: The Passage
Chapter 13: Creedmoor at Work
Chapter 14: The Guardian at the Gate
Chapter 15: Lowry

Book Two: The Doll House

Chapter 16: Early Days
Chapter 17: Telegraph Communion
Chapter 18: Pleasant Investigations
Chapter 19: The Spirit
Chapter 20: The Wound ~ 1871 ~
Chapter 21: Weakness
Chapter 22: Forward Camp at Kloan
Chapter 23: The General in his Retirement
Chapter 24: Breaking Cover

Book Three: Westward

Chapter 25: Flight
Chapter 26: Greenbank
Chapter 27: Over the Border
Chapter 28: The Rains
Chapter 29: The Valley
Chapter 30: Lowry in the Wilderness
Chapter 31: The Games
Chapter 32: Liberation
Chapter 33: Forward the Glorious Purpose
Chapter 34: Ku Koyrik
Chapter 35: The Shadows

Book Four: A Land Fit for Heroes

Chapter 36: The Rose
Chapter 37: Out of the Oaks
Chapter 38: The Hunt
Chapter 39: Lowry’S Duty
Chapter 40: A Machine That Would Go of Itself
Chapter 41: A Guest at Dinner
Chapter 42: The Serpent
Chapter 43: A Stranger in Town
Chapter 44: Heel
Chapter 45: The Dance
Chapter 46: Creedmoor in the Shadows

Book Five: The Battle of New Design

Chapter 47: Raising the Alarm
Chapter 48: The Amplifier
Chapter 49: New Design at War
Chapter 50: Murder
Chapter 51: The General Speaks ~ 1878 ~
Chapter 52: Liv Chooses

Epilogue One: Engine Song ~ Six Months Later ~

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in
this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE HALF-MADE WORLD

Copyright © 2010 by Felix Gilman

All rights reserved.

A Tor Book

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

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New York, NY 10010

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ISBN 978-0-7653-2552-5

First Edition: October 2010

Printed in the United States of America

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The excerpts from the treatise the precocious ten-year-old Liv reads in chapter 20 are drawn partly verbatim from Hans Gross’s 1911
Criminal Psychology.

Huge thanks are due to my editor, Eric Raab, for invaluable comments and support, and to my agent, Howard Morhaim, without whose efforts this wouldn’t be here, and to Sarah, for all the usual reasons.

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