It’s the end of steam punk month here at Bookgazing. I hope you’ve enjoyed hearing about some of the books from this developing genre and that I’ve convinced some of you to pick up the books I reviewed. I really enjoyed hearing peoples thoughts about race in steam punk and you all gave me lots of new resources to check out (especially cheerful bout someone pointing me to a steam punk novellette available for free, online). What did you think of my themed month? Would you be interested if I did another one at the end of the year (if enough people say yes the theme might be fiction about natural history, or women in sports)?
To wrap up steam punk month I thought I’d just do a little house keeping recap and tell you about some other steam punk novels I’m excited about.
Reviews
A list of the steam punk I reviewed this month:
‘The Osiris Ritual’ – George Mann
‘The Women of Nell Gwynnes’ – Kage Barker
‘Leviathan’ – Scott Westerfeld
‘Boneshaker’ – Cherie Priest
Interesting Resources
If you want to learn more about all aspects of steam punk you could do worse than follow these links, thanks to Gal Novelty and PurpleZoe who pointed me in their direction:
Beyond Victoriana
Silver Goggles
JamesNG art (lush artwork)
Steam Fashion
Steampunk 101 at Tor
More steam punk please
A list of some of the steam punk I didn’t get to this month, but am still very excited about:
‘The Windup Girl’ – Paolo Bacigalupi
‘Soulless’ – Gail Carriger
‘The Court of the Air’ – Stephen Hunt
’Mortal Engines’ – Philip Reeves
‘The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack’ – Mark Hodder
Free steam punk please
A few stories available online if you want to try steam punk for free:
‘Pimp my Airship’ – Maurice Broaddus
‘The Effluent Engine’ – N K Jemison
‘The Shattered Teacup’ - George Mann
4 comments:
I think it's cool you did this. I would love to do a themed reading month but I have a feeling I would have a hard time 'staying on task'. :) I am looking forward to reading some steam punk novels (starting with the George Mann book. Thanks for so many insightful posts!
I say "Yay for steam punk month" but most importantly did you enjoy it? I look forward to seeing if you carry on adding a bit of steam punk into your reading schedules and especially seeing if you get around to reading Mortal Engines.
'It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea....' Love that first line...
Danielle I'm really looking forward to seeing if you like George Mann's books and I think Kage Barker might be someone you'd enjoy as well, v English and spys :)
Peta I glad you enjoyed it, I really liked doing it. I'm very much looking forward to 'Mortal Engines', maybe next month and I just received 'The Windup Girl' (couldn't wait it sounded too good).
I think your steampunk month worked brilliantly. I enjoyed it very much!
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