Steampunk books

Kerry Benton · 13 May 2008, 17:30 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: k.benton at gmail.com (Kerry Benton)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:30:24 -0400
Subject: (urth) Steampunk books
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I'll second the rec. for MAINSPRING.  I'm not a steampunk aficionado
by any stretch, but I quite enjoyed Lake's style and unexpectedly
twisting story.  Quite cool.

-k



On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Nicholas Gevers <vermoulian at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In addition to the VanderMeer Steampunk reprint
>  anthology already mentioned in the current discussion,
>  I myself have an original steampunk anthology coming
>  out from Solaris in October: EXTRAORDINARY ENGINES.
>  All new stories from Kage Baker, Keith Brooke, Jeffrey
>  Ford, James Morrow, Ian R. MacLeod, Robert Reed, Jay
>  Lake, Adam Roberts, Marly Youmans, Jeff VanderMeer,
>  Margo Lanagan, and James Lovegrove.
>
>  For Wolfe fans, I'd recommend Jay Lake's steampunk
>  novel MAINSPRING--he's a big Wolfe admirer, and there
>  are certainly Wolfean echoes in the book.
>
>  Another steampunk epic worth reading is Brian
>  Stableford's Werewolves of London trilogy--lots of
>  metaphysics.
>
>  --Nick Gevers.
>
>
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