Steampunk

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:12:24 +0300
>From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Steampunk
>
>Hmmm, looks intriguing:
>
>Cyberpunks William Gibson and Bruce Sterling join forces. The result is 
>"The
>Difference Engine," an alternate-history Victorian mystery/social discourse
>in which the transcendent heart of the digital age has been transplanted
>from the ubiquitous CPUs of the late twentieth century to towering,
>steam-driven analytical "engines." Dense, wry, and weirdly funny, "The
>Difference Engine" is an unlikely literary artifact that recalls Thomas
>Pynchon's "V." The quintessential "steampunk" novel, not likely to be
>superseded.
>

Yeah, I'd also point to "The Difference Engine" as perhaps the 
quintessential Steampunk novel, but another, much better, novel which is 
also often described as Steampunk is the one you're reading right now, 
namely Lawrence Norfolk's "Lemprière's Dictionary". That novel combines a 
modern, digital, cyberpunkish sensibility with mechanical, somewhat clunky 
technology (e.g. Vaucanson's inventions), and that seems to be what 
Steampunk is all about.

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