(urth) Steampunk

[Lane Haygood]

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

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?)
>>
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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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