Also I'm making a mad dash to Kinokuniya in my lunch break tomorrow to pick up some recommended steampunk fiction. It's in the young adult section, but lately I've been enjoying young adult stuff a lot, perhaps because my poor little brain can't really take in much else after days reading High Court cases. Anyway, the books I'll be purchasing are: -
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick which is about an orphan living in a Paris train station, featuring automatons and mad scientists or something, as well as being an homage of sorts to Georges Melies (woo!)
- Mortal Engines (Vol 1 of the Hungry City Chronicles) by Philip Reeve, which is set in post-apocalyptic Victorian London and features lots of zeppelins and mad explorers.
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A great graphic novel is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - I swoon for the gothy industrial victorian settings!
Oh, yeah! Clare and I have read all four books in Philip Reeve's series - a great idea, and some wonderful characters. (Not necessarily the top of the trees of the written word, but pretty good).
I'm loving the young adult stuff, too. Very restful in terms of challenge!
Okay, I usually read in silence, but your post title just made me laugh out loud (and I could use a dose of it today myself!). I haven't read either of the books on your current list, but I have recently picked up the book you sent me and read a few more of the stories. The book truly is a wonderful little time capsule (well in my case time-space capsule) I enjoy it thoroughly!
Seconding Bex on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. (Don't be put off by the extremely naff movie.) There are a couple volumes of it, and Kinokuniya's probably got it in the trade paperbacks comics section. (The author is Alan Moore.)
I've also read "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson. VERY steampunk. I really liked those aspects, but man, I *hate* William Gibson. So that put me off. Your mileage may vary.
I did enjoy Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, which is sorta steampunk (but set in a fantasy universe).
cool, thanks for the recs guys. I ended up buying the two i mentioned, plus a China Mieville young adult one called Un Lun Dun. will report back!
Alan Moore is definitely next on the list (did he do From Hell - that was awesome).
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