Steampunk — Urth Net

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes10 Aug 2011, 03:19as archived

Steampunk

↰ answers Craig Brewer · by quotation

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.

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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 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 Haygood10 Aug 2011, 03:31as archived

↳ 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

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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> 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 <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 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. _______________________________________________