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Yeah not so much to be a counter thread, but rather because I've come to realise that whilst I love the setting I actually know and have little of it! So that's time to change, time to share some steampunk stuff of yours - films, games, cosplay, comics whatever!
This is the third time I start this post... The list is wider than strict steampunk as I personally use the broad definition of the genre and focus more on the overall feel of the era/adventure than on cogs and steam engines:
Ah, I forgot about one game - Frostpunk has a lot in common with steampunk, it's just that the temperature gradient is reversed It was at least partially inspired by Jacek Dukaj's "Lód" - a monumental steampunk read, unfortunately only available in Polish and very, very Polish in both language and historical background. But if someone like a good challange then it is most definitely worth the effort of learning the language (whole work of Dukaj is worh it, really one of the most visionary sci-fi author presently).
nou wrote: Ah, I forgot about one game - Frostpunk has a lot in common with steampunk, it's just that the temperature gradient is reversed It was at least partially inspired by Jacek Dukaj's "Lód" - a monumental steampunk read, unfortunately only available in Polish and very, very Polish in both language and historical background. But if someone like a good challange then it is most definitely worth the effort of learning the language (whole work of Dukaj is worh it, really one of the most visionary sci-fi author presently).
Apparently it's being published in English by Head of Zeus.
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nou wrote: Ah, I forgot about one game - Frostpunk has a lot in common with steampunk, it's just that the temperature gradient is reversed It was at least partially inspired by Jacek Dukaj's "Lód" - a monumental steampunk read, unfortunately only available in Polish and very, very Polish in both language and historical background. But if someone like a good challange then it is most definitely worth the effort of learning the language (whole work of Dukaj is worh it, really one of the most visionary sci-fi author presently).
Apparently it's being published in English by Head of Zeus.
I've been out of the literature news loop, but that is great news! But I'll quote a part of the news snippet from Head of Zeus here, the words of Jacek Dukaj himself: ‘Translating into English a novel so dependent on the cultural and historical context and the peculiarities of Polish and Russian language will be an unique challenge. I’m curious myself what kind of book readers will discover in a result of this transfiguration’. I'll probably want to read that translation myself to judge how good this goes, but judging from the one word only - "frosten" (orignal "lute", a main phenomenon in the book) I fear it will lose a lot. "Lute" is the derivative of the name for february in polish, "luty", but the way this derivative was formed is both anachronistic and has a heavy traditional burden of the most cold weather in pre-war Poland (which was further east than modern polish borders and had more continental, harsh weather in during the winter). "Frosten" doesn't catch that at all (it translates into "zamrożone", which catches a bit of the other properties of "lute" in the book, but not the language feeling of the original). And this is just a single word from a 2K pages work (it's only a 1000 in the physical form only because of all publishing tricks: small leading, font size and tiny margins and it is still a brick) literally packed with word formation, experimental grammar and other linguistic juggling... But I cannot stress this enough - this is a MUST READ for everyone into steampunk and XIX century retro-sci-fi, even if english version is an entirely different beast than polish original.
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Stephen Baxter's Anti-Ice was steampunk before steampunk was popular (published in 1995). Stephen Hunt has written a few novels in a sort of "new weird" steam age fantasy setting with analogues of Britain, France and the like, but it gets very odd in places. There's also China Mieville's Bas-Lag books - Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council - those definitely put the "punk" back in with the "steam".
The Dishonored series does very nice, very understated steampunk chic. Hardly any superfluous cogs or goggles anywhere!
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I've never been a fan of of the steampunk aesthetic, but then again I don't really like Shadowrun anymore because it's really dated cyberpunk. That being said, I did enjoy Jim Butcher's Aeronaught's Windlace. I really liked the cat.
Dead Iron by Devon Monk is a pretty alright read. Steampunk set in the Weird West instead of a Victorian era. It has quite a few interesting fantasy bits laced in as well. Definitely a setting that uses some magic. But most importantly, airships flying over the western US in a post civil war setting.
feeder wrote: Hardly any superfluous cogs or goggles anywhere!
If you just want a pretty straightforward adventure story, not great literature or anything, try out the Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher. I really enjoyed it.
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It was at least partially inspired by Jacek Dukaj's "Lód" - a monumental steampunk read, unfortunately only available in Polish and very, very Polish in both language and historical background. But if someone like a good challange then it is most definitely worth the effort of learning the language (whole work of Dukaj is worh it, really one of the most visionary sci-fi author presently).
