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The Gaslight Dogs (Middle Light, #1)

Karin Lowachee

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Aug 11, 2010 Christine rated it really liked it

Shelves: diversity-on-cover, fantasy-steampunk, native-american-first-peoples, diverse-hero-or-heroine, literature-indigenous, diverse-and-women-authors

Have you ever heard Inuit thoart singing? I recently heard a musical composition for Nanook of the North, and it incorpated the style. If you are a Westener, it's strange, very beautiful, type of music. It's almost like purring cats, except it's not; it really sounds like walking on the snow and ice, but only more so. It's tough but beautiful, but different than the beauty of bagpipes, very different, less warlike and more nature like Apparently, it also could be a dying art form. It is less wel ...more

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Sep 24, 2010 Shomeret rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, my-reviews

This is a radically different alternate history continuity. The alternate Europeans are more mysterious than the alternate Inuits because we have no idea what they left behind in their native Circusia. So we can't be certain about what motivates them. What seems familiar about them may not be familiar at all.

I had a hard time orienting myself at first in what seemed to be my own country. Then I realized that the Canadian author had created an alternate Canada. Then it all started to make sense.

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