Steampunk

[Ya Sam]

Definitely, in LD there are elements of Steampunk. But I don't think that it 
is good for me as a pure sample of the genre, because it is so replete with 
other genres, styles, you name it you have it. Hell, there is a bit of 
Steampunk in M&D as well! I am trying to find a couple of representative 
novels that would be more genre-oriented (if that's possible at all these 
days). So, I think that the Gibson/Sterling novel might be a good start. 
Another strange thing, it seems to me that most of Steampunk devoted to 
Victorian England is written by American writers. How about British ones? 
(Alan Moore doesn't count as he is a graphic novel writer).


>From: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>CC: takoitov at hotmail.com
>Subject: RE: Steampunk
>Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:45:59 +0100
>
>>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superseded.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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