(urth) Steampunk books
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
danldo at gmail.com
Tue May 13 09:15:26 PDT 2008
For those who like steampunk, I'd recommend the first
novel by ALan Campbell, "Scar Night." It reminds me more
than a little of China Mieville without being excessively
derivative.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:37 PM, 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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