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Recommend on: Steampunk/Dieselpunk Books/Games/Movies
Beltaine
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Looking to get my Steam/Dieselpunk fix.
Mostly looking for books to read, but if there are some good games/movies out there that fit the bill, pass them along as well.
Mostly looking for books to read, but if there are some good games/movies out there that fit the bill, pass them along as well.
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I couldn't get into it, but horses for courses and stuff.
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The Difference Engine
Perdido Street Station and the rest of the books in that universe
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Golden Compass and the rest of the trilogy
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comic)
Diesel (comic) (dieselpunk)
MovieZ:
Hellboy 2
Steamboy
Metropolis
Sherlock Holmes (the new one)
GameZ:
Thief (and Thief 2 and Thief 3)
Arcanum
Syberia
Apparently this game
STEAMBOT CHRONICLES!
Films-wise, watch both Hellboys, Castle in the Sky, Castle of Cagliostro and City of Lost Children
That was pretty fun to watch. I'm sure someone in here knows what it's called.
I didn't either though my wife did.
Last Exile is on instant stream. It's a steam punkish anime about air ships in what's basically a Victorian age.
It may or may not fall under hard sci fi, but it has a pretty steampunkish feel in my opinion. The first book (of four) is called Hyperion. If you pick it up, give it 50-100 pages. That's about when I got hooked, and now it's one of my favorites.
Have you seen this yet:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5434666681046246946&q=The+Amazing+Screw-On+Head
The Amazing Screw-On Head. There were robots and Lincoln, but no robo-Lincoln. It wasn't so much a film as a pilot for a series that never got picked up. It's actually sort of depressing to watch because it's SO GOOD and you know they'll never make any more of it.
Lime, bold, underline, italics, whatever. Watch this movie. Delicatessen and Micmacs, while not fully steampunk, definitely have that vibe, too.
Ann Vandermeer- Steampunk and Steampunk II Both are collections of short stories.
Anything by Cherie Priest in her "Clockwork Century" series.
George Mann- The Affinity Bridge, The Osiris Ritual, and he has a bunch of shorts on his website.
Dru Pagliassotti- Clockwork Heart. One of my favorites.
Naomi Novik's Temeraire series has some Steampunk aspects. More Victorian era + Dragons though.
Paolo Bacigalupi- The Windup Girl
Nick Gevers- Extraordinary Engines. Another Steampunk anthology.
William Gibson- The Difference Engine... obviously.
Anime wise- Steamboy and Last Exile
I'll have a look later..
I'd also strongly recommend Chris Wooding's Retribrution Falls, which has a sort of Firefly flavour, with zepplins. And Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves, for a more familiar, pseudo-Victorian Steampunk feel.
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His second-best novel in my eyes.
It's biopunk oh god I hate -punk suffixes so much
It was pretty insanely intense, hilarious, and entertaining. Characters are a bit flat, but the awesome fuel makes up for it. A definite must have, I'd say.
Hey now, it had zombies and airships too.
But yeah. I've read it, and I didn't think it was especially interesting.
What would you say his best is? I grabbed revelation space on a recommendation but haven't started it yet.
I was always partial to The Prefect, which I thought wwas slightly more accessible than Revelation Space, and had the added benefit of being a rare example of a good sci-fi mystery novel (see also: Flatlander). House of Suns was pretty good too. The first serious was heavy going when I came to it as a new reader. Fascinating, but very, very dense - and it didn't make much in the way of concessions to a reader who couldn't keep up.
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Pushing Ice is my favorite.
I feel his stand-alone novels have better writing than his Inhibitor novels - his first novel in particular, Revelation Space, is pretty damn dry, and it feels like all the characters in the Inhibitor novels are emotionless robots. (Then again, most of them are Ultras)
Speaking of Deadlands, there's a series of four stand-alone comic books coming out. The first one came out last month, and the second comes out next week. I imagine they'll be collected into a trade paperback by the end of the year.
Also on the Comic front, Lady Mechanika #2 and a collected edition of Issues #0-1 came out this week. My copies are still on order, so I can't comment on their quality yet.
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Edit: If I recall correctly, it's delightfully creepy.
I suppose some stuff by Joules Verne, although I haven't read much of his work.
Stephen King's: The Dark Tower series (but that's a mix of horror, sci-fi and steampunk Western and not good all the way through).
I read an interesting e-book recently called Ironclad Intentions on Kindle. It's a steampunk Western and took a while to get into, but then I really enjoyed it.
As for games in this kind of genre... I would go for Bioshock, Borderlands, Dishonoured and Fallout.
The entire Clockwork Century series is pretty entertaining to read.
http://theclockworkcentury.com/
fake edit: Just realized this is a three year old thread.
80 days is an awesome android/ios interactive fiction/game which sets the classical novella in a steampunk setting.