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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?
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
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.
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 :)
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.
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 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.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Steamed (other topics)Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology (other topics)
Perdido Street Station (other topics)
Whitechapel Gods (other topics)
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Katie MacAlister (other topics)Neal Stephenson (other topics)
