Brigitte
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Post by Brigitte on Sept 21, 2013 19:21:05 GMT -7
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cryptocat
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Post by cryptocat on Nov 11, 2013 13:12:31 GMT -7
I'm reading a great Steampunk book called "The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosties". It's a collection of pictures, articles and short stories about the fantastical objects in the collection of a Victorian man. Stories are written by noted sci fi authors such as Michael Moorcock, Cherie Priest and China Mieville to name a few. The artwork is terrific!
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moreguns
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Post by moreguns on Dec 21, 2014 21:18:40 GMT -7
aHA -- excellent topic I can super-recommend (its a thing!) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen -- Omnibus Edition - The Omnibus Edition contains 2 Volumes of graphic novels. No need to seek the individual monthly books, you get it all in one Collection.
- And Vol 1 is different from the movie, like ....well no spoilers
- Vol 2 has Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter and War of the Worlds (Wells) mashed-up together
Regular Level of Recommendation Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
- Sorta like Firefly, intrepid captain with crew performing outlaw-ish feats of daring due.
- unlike Firefly, its got magic, oh well
- best with Kindle since you can get instant definitions for all those antiquated words.
The Affinity Bridge by George Mann
- Zombies! well "revenants" (look it up)
- a mystery, strong female lead
Like a wisp of steam--Steampunk Erotica, collection by C. Tan and J.Blackmore
- collection of erotic short stories
- Great settings and rich dialog
Don't Recommend (cause its karma) The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
- I know, you'd think the scifi master would have an awesome alternate history hit
- Typical Dick, strange european ending that doesn't really wrap the threads
- ==> Oh SLAM ==> Amazon is making the series from this story. Saw one episode and its goooood!
The Zombie Autopsies by Steven Schlozman
- a medical explanation of a possible cause for zombie-ism
- little plot, mostly just comments in a laboratory notebook
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moreguns
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Post by moreguns on Jun 20, 2015 22:54:31 GMT -7
Steampunk literature criteriaIt may be a bummer to some, but its hard to weed out good steampunk books since its more of an aesthetic than a sub-genre. [wish there was more criteria for steampunk music but thats another post-future] There's a guy: worthy to set the criteria, Mike Perscheon. He's got a doctorate in literature, focused on STEAMPUNK So, yeah, his opinions carry more weight than yours or mine. steampunkscholar.blogspot.com/p/aesthetic-101.htmlHis criteria involves 3 features: "... Steampunk is an aesthetic that mixes three features: technofantasy, neo-Victorianism, and Retrofuturism. We've covered Technofantasy . It's tech that lacks plausibility, or utilizes fantasy elements as impulsion. I use neo-Victorian broadly. I'd have preferred something less ethnocentric, but neo-Victorian evokes an era, rather than necessarily saying it takes place in the time. It was a lot less clunky than "nineteenth century fantastic mise-en-scene." I'm not saying it has to be British. I'm saying steampunk's aesthetic is grounded in the Victorian period with fuzzy boundaries. It's not a geographic or temporal limitation, save as inspiration. I'm aware steampunk occurs outside England and in other time periods. But even though Fitzpatrick's War takes place in the 26th century, it's still evoking the nineteenth century. I've heard Makers tell me they don't care about neo-Victorian, but when you're using brass and gears and clockwork, I'm telling you your art reminds me of the nineteenth century: ergo, neo-Victorian. It's the best term I could find for that aspect. Retrofuturism: The way the past viewed the future, or more important in steampunk, how we think the past viewed the future. The idea of steampunk anachronism is flawed, because in texts where it's a secondary world, there's nothing anachronistic about your technology. It belongs in that fabricated world. There are steampunk texts that use anachronisms (again, The Difference Engine), but it's really retrofuturism that runs across the board. Retrofuturism should be understood as more than technological: there is social retrofuturism as well, when we make the past in our image, as we do whenever a nineteenth century woman isn't slowly going crazy in a room with psychedelic wallpaper. ..."
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