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4.0 out of 5 stars
Steampunk meets Stephen King,
This review is from: The Golems of Laramie County (Paperback)
The Golems of Laramie County is a fictional story. It's important that you remember that, because Ken Rand blurs the lines between fact and fiction as deftly as he blurs the lines between our world and Peaceful Valley, a place where wooden, robot-like golems tend sheep while passenger dirigibles float by overhead.
The Golems of Laramie County starts with Rand - the late author and erstwhile narrator of the story - interviewing a man at local hospital who is celebrating his 142nd birthday. Not everything is as it seems in this story. For one thing, Horace Bixby barely looks 50, not nearly three times that age. For another, he seems confused about modern technology. Cars are still horseless carriages to him, and his command of geography is sketchy. Through the course of a number of visits, Bix tells Ken about Peaceful Valley, the events that changed it, and how he came to be a resident of the hospital's mental wing. The Golems of Laramie County reminds me of two of my favorite Stephen King stories - The Green Mile and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Both stories use a similar framing device in which the narrator relates to the audience an encounter with someone who changes their lives. Though the story plays out more like the westerns Little Big Man and Young Guns II, in which a much older cowboy is relating their past to an interested historian. The story has enough horrific elements that it feels like what you might have if Stephen King tried his hand at Steampunk. One of the primary villains of the story is a long-dead golem with the power to make other golems. But instead of making them out of wood or bits of string, his medium of choice for spare golem parts can be found in the local graveyard. The Golems of Laramie County is by turns touching, creepy, engaging, horrifying and intriguing. My only complaint is that at 162 pages, the story is a little on the short side. With the material that Rand presents, he could very easily have expanded the book into a full length novel rather than a novella.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A necrogolem? Yuck!,
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This review is from: The Golems of Laramie County (Kindle Edition)
Great story. Rand blends realism and fantasy skillfully. By the time you're done you might find yourself actually wondering why you've never conjured a golem of your own.
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