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Lumberlane Wall, the murderous giant who stood over seven feet, looked down at his opponent and laughed. "Dwarf," he said, "you've given me such a sight that I almost hate to kill you. A midget with a stick against a man with a battle ax! No one told me the great Orion was insane."In the post-cataclysmic realm of what was once Southern Utah, dwarfs now greatly outnumber the "oversized" humans, who are are too often hunted and slaughtered as uneducable savages by the new majority. But Orion questions this. He leaves his home and his community behind in Middle Village and sets out on a quest of personal discovery, as well as to search for an intriguing oversized woman that he's seen traveling alone through the wilderness, where New World survival can be difficult.In the tradition of literature's greatest heroes and journeys, Dwarf Days challenges modern notions of courage, determination, and justice and asks us all to take a look at the values we hold dear. No library descriptions found. |
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The story takes place in our world’s future, long after an unknown event that destroyed our current civilization. In this future, there are dwarfs. The dwarfs have a nation of several villages in present day Utah, and do not know much about what lies beyond this nation. The technology level is that of your typical fantasy world, although there is no magic. Sometimes bigger individuals, called oversized, are born among the dwarfs, and if allowed to live, these are expelled from society and forced to roam the wilderness around the villages.
Middle Village is a prospering community, much thanks to the superhero-like character Orion. However, Orion is tired of his privileged life and sets off on a new adventure on his own. This leaves a power vacuum which evil dwarfs try to fill, and soon they threaten to take over the whole dwarf nation, and turn it into a dictatorship which preys on people’s fear of the oversized. Thus, racism is a theme of the book. The story follows Orion, but also a large number of other characters.
I enjoyed reading the book and to learn about this future world. The characters are all well described and their fates moved me. Dillon’s grief could perhaps have been developed a bit more. The dialogue is good for the most part but sometimes halting when involving many characters. The story takes a few unexpected turns, and kept me interested throughout the book.
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