<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>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.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>(One note: from my largely inattentive observation: most of the really interesting steampunk stuff happens in sculpture and gadgetry, not writing. Is that valid?) <br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David Duffy
<davidD@qimr.edu.au><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 9, 2011 9:26 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) completed version - Donaldson, Moorcock etc<br></font><br>On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Matthew Keeley wrote:<br><br>> On the other hand, the Warlord books are great if you're ever in the mood<br>> for a steampunk alternate history featuring mecha-Stalin vs. the a-bomb...<br><br>It could be argued that he is partly responsible for the steampunk glut.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net" target="_blank">http://www.urth.net</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>