I have been possessed by a sudden need to read more steampunk. I've read Anubis Gates (tho' it's been a while), and I'm re-reading The Difference Engine. Does anyone have any recommendations for other steampunk literature?
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Atropa - Apr 11, 2007 10:34:40 am PDT #2521 of 28523
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2007 10:39:55 am PDT #2522 of 28523
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Perdido Street Station is kinda steampunk.
Atropa - Apr 11, 2007 10:44:09 am PDT #2523 of 28523
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Perdido Street Station is kinda steampunk.
The gay stunt husband keeps agitating at me to read it. I glanced at a couple of pages a few years ago and it didn't grab me, but I probably should give it another try.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2007 10:47:11 am PDT #2524 of 28523
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It took a hundred pages for me to feel comfortable in the world and another hundred for it to finally hook me, but once the plot kicks into gear, it's pretty much a rip-roaring ride till the end. I had issues with it overall, but it was good.
JohnSweden - Apr 11, 2007 11:23:24 am PDT #2525 of 28523
I can't even.
Ooh, Neil Stevenson's The Diamond Age. And Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter.
I find Mieville hard slogging, in the same way as I gave up on Gene Wolfe. I know people love their stuff but their purposefully obscurantist prose just doesn't work for me.
Ginger - Apr 11, 2007 6:08:39 pm PDT #2526 of 28523
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84 [link]
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night when in Manhattan. He was 84.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2007 6:14:39 pm PDT #2527 of 28523
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Holy shit.
I've only ever read Slaughterhouse-Five, but I've been meaning to read more.
DavidS - Apr 11, 2007 6:15:49 pm PDT #2528 of 28523
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So it goes.
sorry - that was inevitable
I'm not surprised. He looked pretty frail on TDS.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2007 6:18:00 pm PDT #2529 of 28523
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dammit, Hec, I came to edit that in. Heh.
When was he on TDS? Recently?
DavidS - Apr 11, 2007 6:26:00 pm PDT #2530 of 28523
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
When was he on TDS? Recently?
Within the last couple months. I bet they throw the clip up at the TDS website.