Far as I can tell, the most definitive piece of "steampunk" lit out there is The Difference Engine, by Gibson and Sterling. Essentially an alt-history novel about what mighta happened if Charles Babbage had created a computer revolution a couple hundred years early. G&S may have deliberately started the literary movement; it's the sort of thing that both of them would enjoy doing, for different reasons.
But for comics, Girl Genius is probably as iconic as The Difference Engine.
As for the
If you don't like what I like, you're stupid;
if you like what I don't like you're an asshole.
dealie, have y'all seen this?
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Oh, that is brilliant and awesome.
Today, I scanned/entered all of my books into Delicious Library. They're uploading into my librarything account as we speak.
I am disappointed that i only have 220 books in my apartment. It does not feel like nearly a large enough number, and yet I don't have nearly enough shelf space for the hundreds more I want to have.
This seemed literary-appropriate - it's official! librarians are hot!
Did I kill the thread? or the hot librarians made everyone quietly shelve themselves in their bunks?
No reference to Giles? Mr. Uber-Librarian himself? Sadly lacking.
I saw some books at lunch that piqued my curiosity. Anybody read them and got a review?
The new Chabon book
The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
Tracey Chevalier's new novel about Wm. Blake.
Burning Bright.
Kiki Strike
The new Chabon book The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
Saw a positive review of this in
Entertainment Weekly.
Looked interesting in an alternate-history kind of way. Plus, detectiving! Chabon read up on a whole bunch of noir authors like Chandler and Hammett before writing the novel.
NY Times Book Review also had a positive review of the new Chabon. I know Mrs. Industries is super-excited. What's Kiki Strike? The delivery service business getting extra-oppressive? Or has she joined the military?
