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New York Times best selling author, Larry Correia is getting into Infinity! He is a well known Warmachine/Hordes player and has even written "Into the Storm" for Privateer Press. Now he is starting Infinity! Hopefully there will be an Infinity novel in the future from him. Seriously, if you've never read his stuff, check it out.
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That is pretty cool, I've been reading his books for years and now I have another reason to be a fan. Plus his daughter plays Yu Jing (The best army) which is even cooler.

This ought to be interesting. He really likes Warmachine, and has a pretty good-sized collection. Just after GenCon, he announced that he owned the figures for every single mercenary contract in that game (including the just-released sub-faction).

Seeing a similar push by him into Infinity could be interesting.

I had to google him.

He's not exactly well known in these parts.

 chromedog wrote:
I had to google him.

He's not exactly well known in these parts.

Though he probably should be, given his interests. His two big series are a magic steampunk 1930s alternate Earth series, and a series about a private company that specializes in monster hunting. Those are topics that are likely to catch the attention of many here. He's also written some short stories for Privateer Press's Warmahordes anthologies.


And as previously mentioned, he likes Warmachine.

You're in the US.

I'm not. Steampunk just isn't that big a thing here. Not compared to the US. Most of us refer to the time period as Victoriana Speculative fiction still.

It sounds better than "stick a cog on it and call it steampunk". :p

That's a pretty good explaination of Steampunk over here. I remember watching the Living Room with my fiancee one Friday night and they were redecorating some kids room who wanted it to look Steampunk. They basically got some steel shelving, a cog styled clock, and said 'there you go, a steampunk room!'.

the 1930s isn't Steampunk. He also co-wrote a modern day techno thriller with Super author Mike Kupari called Dead Six. It's all about mercenaries in the Middle East.

 Musashi363 wrote:
the 1930s isn't Steampunk.

The general perception of it here is, because as said, it's not a very wide spread aesthetic. it's still seen as that weird, 1930's Victorian era look with a bunch of cogs and pipes glued on in nonsensical places.

Nah. The steampunk in question is more "steampunk lite". It has some of the elements associated with steampunk - specifically, fantastic lighter-than-air ships and unusual electrical inventions, including the horrifyingly powerful "Peace Ray" (hint - it's not very peaceful) - which is why I used the term. But those elements also work as a part of a fictional '30s, where - for a brief moment - it looked as if Zeppelins might be the way to travel long distances. The setting is also locked in the '30s by the atmosphere, with the horrors of The Great War (this time with zombies) still firmly present in the minds of the characters who were around to witness it. Historical figures who lived during the era such as John Browning, Raymond Chandler, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover, show up - sometimes in surprising places. It's definitely something that should not be confused with the standard perceptions of the Victorian era.

Hitler, however, is dead. Though Otto Skorzeny makes an appearance in a short story.


Oh, and wasn't Victoria dead long before the '30s? Why would that period be linked with her?

But according to the New York Times everyone and their grandmother are a "Best Selling" author.

Eumerin wrote:



Oh, and wasn't Victoria dead long before the '30s? Why would that period be linked with her?

30s isn't usual time period for "steampunk". What I've seen of it is rooted in late 19th century British colonialism. Like Dracula, but with cogs.
The 30s I see more as a jazz age. Steampunk doesn't really fit with that entire time. The motor car was the new king of the road. Sure, steam trains and steamSHIPS were still around, but diesel was coming in as well. I've perhaps seen 30s stuff listed as "dieselpunk" though.

Interesting difference. I also see 1930 more of diesel punk setting rather than steam punk. Certainly you can make steam punk in 1930 era, as a writer nothing forbids you to do this, but I wouldn't considered it a general trope.

Personally, I link "diesel punk" with a slightly later aesthetic. That could just be me, though.

In any event, as I said, Steampunk-Lite. The aesthetic doesn't match with Steampunk. You don't see cogs and brass everywhere. But some of the other common elements exist.

Now the short story set twenty years later in which the son of one of the main characters (who is an infant in the epilogue) is all grown up... that might be diesel punk. I haven't read that short story, though, so I can't confirm.

Wow that is great news! Correira is not only a nice dude but he really knows how to write a thrilling book!

edit: woah, okay, next time I read everything before I get hyped....