Steampunk

[Will Layman]

If you want to read a funny book that takes literary potshots at  
steampunk, Caleb Carr, DAVINCI CODE and plenty of other targets  
(mostly cheap shots by any measure), I recommend THE SHROUD OF THE  
THWACKER by Chris Eliot.

Eliot used to be on Letterman back in the WAY old NBC days, and his  
old Fox Sitcom GET A LIFE was 25 years ahead of its time.  It's not  
literature, foax, but a gag on bad literature (not that steampunk is  
bad).  And it's silly fun.

-- Will

On Oct 30, 2006, at 9:59 AM, David Morris wrote:


> I read "The Difference Engine" years ago.  The writing's good
> describing the technology and aesthetic of this alternate time.  The
> story line is lacking, but not entirely.  A sort of murder-mystery,
> but not very compelling.
>
> David Morris
>
> On 10/28/06, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "The Steampunk Trilogy" by Paul DiFilippo - a long term member of  
>> this
>> list - would be an obvious route.  "The Difference Engine" by  
>> Gibson &
>> Sterling and "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson are worth reading.
>>