Steampunk

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 10 Aug 2011, 03:19 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:19:55 -0700
Subject: (urth) Steampunk
Message-ID: <CAJ8=rtjn9UCh90=euahYK2w6wAS1jHp_vdcOdnjAaVre8Azuow at mail.gmail.com>

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 <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> 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 <davidD at qimr.edu.au>
> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 9:26 PM
> Subject: Re: (urth) completed version - Donaldson, Moorcock etc
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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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