I love steampunk, man.

Good example: The comics, Steampunk 1 & 2 by Joe Kelly and Chris Bachalo.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15472...

Alan Moore's League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen, the TV series, Avatar: The Last Airbender...And of course the anime film, Steamboy.

It's usually set in the 18th or 19th century and the technology is very, very advanced. Sometimes there'd be computers or tanks. The story doesn't really have to feature steam-powered technology but the purists, methinks, will disagree.

Just imagine Robin Hood and his merry men escaping on his steam-powered hoverbikes after robbing from the rich not with bows and arrows but with their steamguns
:)

The Diamond Age was awesome

I wonder if these two David Mitchell books would fit this genre.
Cloud Atlas
Number 9 Dream

Thanks for recs. I found The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker and it sounded like something I would like. I've been looking at Perdido Street Station.

I just ordered the newest of China Mieville's novels, "The City and The City', after I saw him speak on Amazon.
This novel was on Amazon's Editors' Top Ten of 2009 list.
It is not 'Steampunk', but he mentioned that he likes to write a novel in each genre.

Steampunk is a sub-genre of cyberpunk. It's futuristic sci-fi set in the steam engine era. (It makes me think of Back to the Future III.)

The Diamond Age Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson is one that a lot of steampunk fans in my sci-fi club recommend.

I've also heard Perdido Street is good.

I enjoyed Whitechapel Gods by S. M. Peters and Perdido Street Station by China Mieville.

Also, there is a short story anthology that has submissions from a lot of the authors that are currently doing steampunk called Extraordinary Engines that I own but have not yet started.

Hmmm.. Interesting. I also checked out Katie MacAlisters blog to see what she termed it as....
Seems like it's a new genre to fit those books that try to be all genre's at once :)

Lori,

I haven't read anything from this genre, but it seems to be a melding of Victorian with fantasy/alternate history/speculative fiction. Kind of Wells and Verne by authors influenced by the 1980's and 1990's.

What is this genre? I have never heard of it.

Katie MacAlister is branching into this genre... her website has a nice little write up about it/what it is. She has her first book of this genre coming out sometime soon and the cover art for it, i think, is a great visual for steampunk. Steamed

I've been introduced to a new (to me) genre, having just read Soulless by Gail Carriger. Is anyone familiar with this (sub)genre? Can you make any recommendations?