book rec?/ if you enjoyed P, try these /++

[Dave Monroe]

Hey, Mr. DiFilippo, if you're out there, am quite enjoying that there
Steampunk Trilogy.  What IS the deal with "steampunk" as a genre?  Queen
Victoria's Bomb (Clark) in the 60's,as I recall, Gibson and Sterling's The
Difference Engine, Moore's League of Distinguished Gentlemen comic book
miniseries, those Japanese Steampunk Detective comics (er, manga) ...

"Derek C. Maus" wrote:

> For what it's worth, my list of "If you like Pynchon, then you've gotta
> try..." books is follows:
>
> 1) THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID by Michael Ondaatje
> 2) THE PUTTERMESSER PAPERS by Cynthia Ozick
> 3) WEREWOLF PROBLEM IN CENTRAL RUSSIA by Viktor Pelevin
> 4) DOG SOLDIERS by Robert Stone
> 5) THE STEAMPUNK TRILOGY by the p-list's own Paul DiFilippo
>
> and on, and on, and on...can't say that I can give any other reasoning
> that "Since I like Pynchon, and I liked these books...".
>
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