Playfully mashing up the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with whimsically modernized technology, the wildly popular steampunk genre is here to stay. Now...long live the revolution! Steampunk Revolution features a renegade collective of writers and artists, including steampunk legends and hot, new talents rebooting the steam-driven past and powering it into the future. Lev Grossman's â??Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham, GBE, a.k.a. Roboticus the All-Knowing" is the Six-Million-Dollar Steampunk Man, possessing appendages and workings recycled from metal parts, yet also fully human, resilient, and determined. Bruce Sterling's â??White Fungus" introduces steampunk's younger cousin, salvage-punk, speculating on how cities will be built in the future using preexisting materials. Cat Valente's â??Mother Is a Machine" explores the merging of man and machine and a whole new form of parenting. In Jeff VanderMeer's anti-steampunk story â??Fixing Hanover," a creator must turn his back on his creation because it is so utterly destructive. And Cherie Priest presents â??The Clockroach," a new and very unsettling mode of transportation. Going far beyond corsets and goggles, Steampunk Revolution is not just your granddad's zeppelinâ??it's an even… (más)
I rather like steampunk as an aesthetic, and I also like the attempts of these authors to move it out of Victoriana into the rest of the world. Also nothing wrong with Victoriana, but the former should not require the latter. I will note that many of these stories are a bit abbreviated in some way, lacking resolutions. This probably fits with the tinkerer attitude of the steampunks: not happy with the ending? Write your own. Having said that, I enjoyed this collection quite a bit. My favorites were N. K Jemisin's "The Effluent Engine" and "Arbeitskraft," by Nick Mamatas. YMMV. ( )
Carrie Vaughn's "Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil": in the midst of a war, a lady and an airship pilot are the British Empire's best hope of getting an Aetherian artifact that might defeat Prussia. Introduces an interesting set of characters and hints at a cool alternate world, but this is too short to do much else.
Cherie Priest's "Addison Howell and the Clockroach"...
The problem with electronic lending is when the lending period is up, the library can just snatch the book back without a by-you-leave! Hopefully I'll get a chance to finish this someday.
"This is not your Great-great-great-great-great grandmother's steam punk. Our renigade collective of scribes and scribblers have converged from accross the globe, igniting the tinder of rebellion, and revealing all manner of madness. they tell of a daring english adventuress smuggling a stolen alien artifact past barbarian cultists and the German blockade; a fearsome Robot General who has finally outlived his hayday on the battlefield; a determined Fredrich Engels attempting to resurect Karl Marx and liberate the proetariat, and much more."
This is a book of short sories, many of which had the habbit of sticking in my mind after reading them. I also appreciated the non fiction at the end which is an unusual addition, this explaned to me why this is a revolution (and to me what steampunk is). well worth the read ( )
Playfully mashing up the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with whimsically modernized technology, the wildly popular steampunk genre is here to stay. Now...long live the revolution! Steampunk Revolution features a renegade collective of writers and artists, including steampunk legends and hot, new talents rebooting the steam-driven past and powering it into the future. Lev Grossman's â??Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham, GBE, a.k.a. Roboticus the All-Knowing" is the Six-Million-Dollar Steampunk Man, possessing appendages and workings recycled from metal parts, yet also fully human, resilient, and determined. Bruce Sterling's â??White Fungus" introduces steampunk's younger cousin, salvage-punk, speculating on how cities will be built in the future using preexisting materials. Cat Valente's â??Mother Is a Machine" explores the merging of man and machine and a whole new form of parenting. In Jeff VanderMeer's anti-steampunk story â??Fixing Hanover," a creator must turn his back on his creation because it is so utterly destructive. And Cherie Priest presents â??The Clockroach," a new and very unsettling mode of transportation. Going far beyond corsets and goggles, Steampunk Revolution is not just your granddad's zeppelinâ??it's an even
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