# Steampunk *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 10 Aug 2011* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *10 Aug 2011, 03:19* I've really enjoyed Cherie Priest's "Clockwork Century" novels, BONESHAKER and DREADNOUGHT. Whether that makes them "good" is another question. One that I'm quite sure is "good" is Sterling/Gibson's THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE. > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Craig Brewer wrote: > As long as we're all in a non-Wolfe-talking mood, does anyone have any > recommendations for GOOD steampunk? I've only read a spattering (Vandermeer, > Mieville, and random others), but I'd be interested to know of things that > people enjoy that weren't written just to fit a fad. > (One note: from my largely inattentive observation: most of the really > interesting steampunk stuff happens in sculpture and gadgetry, not writing. > Is that valid?) > > ________________________________ > From: David Duffy > To: The Urth Mailing List > Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 9:26 PM > Subject: Re: (urth) completed version - Donaldson, Moorcock etc > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Matthew Keeley wrote: >> On the other hand, the Warlord books are great if you're ever in the mood >> for a steampunk alternate history featuring mecha-Stalin vs. the a-bomb... > It could be argued that he is partly responsible for the steampunk glut. > > _______________________________________________ --- ### Lane Haygood *10 Aug 2011, 03:31 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* I didn't like those. In theory, I like steampunk, but I am yet to find something that really does well within the genre rather than just try to pander to fans of it. I know Vandermeer has it in him, so maybe I just need to find more of his stuff. Moorcock's Oswald Bastable novels are genius, though, but I'm generally like, "Oh, another Moorcock novel? Yes, please!" But maybe that's because I liked the political subtext and Moorcock's subversiveness more than others. A "steampunkish" (I guess?) novel that I did enjoy was Felix Gilman's "The Half-Made World," though it was more like a weird Western than a steampunk novel. LH > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > I've really enjoyed Cherie Priest's "Clockwork Century" novels, > BONESHAKER and DREADNOUGHT. Whether that makes them "good" is another > question. > > One that I'm quite sure is "good" is Sterling/Gibson's THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE. > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Craig Brewer wrote: >> As long as we're all in a non-Wolfe-talking mood, does anyone have any >> recommendations for GOOD steampunk? I've only read a spattering (Vandermeer, >> Mieville, and random others), but I'd be interested to know of things that >> people enjoy that weren't written just to fit a fad. >> (One note: from my largely inattentive observation: most of the really >> interesting steampunk stuff happens in sculpture and gadgetry, not writing. >> Is that valid?) >> >> ________________________________ >> From: David Duffy >> To: The Urth Mailing List >> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 9:26 PM >> Subject: Re: (urth) completed version - Donaldson, Moorcock etc >> >> On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Matthew Keeley wrote: >>> On the other hand, the Warlord books are great if you're ever in the mood >>> for a steampunk alternate history featuring mecha-Stalin vs. the a-bomb... >> It could be argued that he is partly responsible for the steampunk glut. >> >> _______________________________________________ ---