Fw: Re: The Second Coming of Steampunk

[K3 V iN Cummiskey]

im glad other people are in fights and its not just me

--- On Sat, 9/13/08, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: The Second Coming of Steampunk
> To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Jon Lebkowsky" <jon.lebkowsky at gmail.com>, "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>, "Paul Di Filippo" <pgdf at cox.net>
> Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 4:06 AM
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:16 PM, David Morris
> <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Right, but as the blurb defined Steampunk:
> >
> > "Originally a literary movement that mashed
> cyberpunk-style themes
> > with speculative rewritings of Victorian culture"
> >
> > And since I think of Gibson as the originator of
> Cyber-punk, and
> > _Difference Engine_ as the original Steampunk, I
> credit Steampunk
> > mainly to Gibson.  But since I know nothing by
> Sterling, I'm probably
> > doing him an injustice.
> 
> Again, a listing of people in a steampunk anthology,
> fousing on short
> stories (of which there are a dearth, comparaticvely, read
> the actual
> interview).  Viz. ...
> 
> ---
> 
> Given your focus on short stories, was there a difficulty
> about
> choosing which texts to represent?
> 
> AV: Definitely, that was a tricky thing, because a lot of
> the more
> recognizable steampunk fiction that you're going to see
> out there is
> at novel-length, and of course there's not as much
> short fiction
> that's recognized that way. We did spend quite a lot of
> time doing
> research and reading everything that we possibly could in
> order to get
> a nice variety, because we didn't want a lot of stories
> that were just
> like each other.
> 
> [...]
> 
> JV: Let's make a distinction, too: There's not that
> much classic
> steampunk short fiction, as in short stories, but
> there's plenty of it
> in a medium length—a novelette length. One of the
> challenges in doing
> this anthology was really finding the short story pieces
> 
> It was great to see the Chabon piece in there—to build
> that bridge out
> there to more mainstream literary uses of steampunk such as
> Pynchon's,
> which might not be excerptable.
> 
> JV: I think we would have excerpted Pynchon if it
> hadn't been so
> recent, and if we'd had the opportunity. (And then, of
> course, you
> never want to have too many novel excerpts, unless you can
> find
> something that's really self-contained.)
> 
> ---
> 
> Once again (and again, and again, and ...), David, you are
> bitching
> merely to bitch.  READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE FOR ONCE FIRST
> BEFORE
> TYPING/SENDING.  Thank you.  That is all ...