completed version - Donaldson, Moorcock etc

Craig Brewer · 10 Aug 2011, 02:45 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: cnbrewer at yahoo.com (Craig Brewer)
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 19:45:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) completed version - Donaldson, Moorcock etc
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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?) 



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From: David Duffy <davidD at qimr.edu.au>
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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.

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