Other SF writers? (Was: How list works andquestions

David Duffy · 13 May 2008, 01:37 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:37:04 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Other SF writers? (Was: How list works andquestions
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On Tue, 13 May 2008, Oliver Wakefield wrote:

> Wow, alot of authors ive never heard of here. Need to get cracking. On 
> the steampunk note I was quite excited to read "the difference engine" 
> but found it flagged seriously at the conclusion.

I know why you are saying that, in that it seems sketchy after the 
density of the earlier episodes, but on rereading it I found it 
beautifully understated.

> Anyone know of any decent steampunk books.?

Not really decent but ambitious and OK Paul De Filippo _Steampunk Trilogy_

Kind of tangentially steampunk with strong writing -- Ian McLeod _The 
Light Ages_, Keith Roberts _Pavane_, John Crowley _Great Work of Time_, 
Michael Moorcock's Oswald Bastable series.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

David Duffy.

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