June '11 / Steampunk Reading Poll

[Scheherazade]

Please nominate the "science fiction" novel you would like to read in June in this thread.

Please remember that:

- Only those members with 50+ posts can nominate.

- One nomination per member.

- Only the first 10 nominations will be included in the poll.


The Book Club readings are for those who would like to read and discuss books together with other members.

If you are not able to take part or unwilling to (re)read your own nominations, please refrain from nominating book.

A list of steampunk works

[OrphanPip]

I'll nominate The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, even though it's not on the list.

Maybe we could expand the category to contain cyberpunk, because it is a very narrow genre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age

[Dark Muse]

I do not know much about this genre, so hopefully this counts.

I nominate Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson

I found it listed here as American Steampunk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Steampunk_novels

And was excited becasue I acutally own this book, and I did not think I would be able to nominate anything.

[Paulclem]

Hmm -difficult to decide. I think I've said that before. I read Infernal Devices a few years ago, and it really is the maddest plot written in the Victorian idiom. In fact I couldn't remember the title, but recognised it from the steampunk list.

I'll have to have a think.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I have pretty much no knowledge of this genre. I'll leave the nominations up to others, I think.

[Calidore]

Keith Roberts' Pavane is wonderful, and I'd be happy to have an excuse to read that again, so consider this a nomination. I also haven't read much steampunk, but I like the genre conceptually, so I look forward to using other people's nominations as recommendations as well.

[JuniperWoolf]

Steampunk! What an odd catagory to have for our monthly book club. I'll nominate The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which comes in two small volumes rather than one large one but both should be available from any library.

[OrphanPip]

Steampunk! What an odd catagory to have for our monthly book club. I'll nominate The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which comes in two small volumes rather than one large one but both should be available from any library.

There may be some of us *cough* me *cough* who could provide an electronic version if it were so desired. Not that I would ever condone the distribution of copyrighted material.

Edit: And it was me who nominated Steam Punk as a genre last year, I didn't think it would get voted through.

[JuniperWoolf]

Steampunk is cool, especially the fashion. It freaked me out at first (I'm afraid of robots and machines, so using them as accessories is unnerving), but it just looks so snazzy:

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

So, what are the steampunk "classics" because it sounds like a very cool genre.

[JuniperWoolf]

Steampunk is basically when you put together machines that didn't exist back then with the Victorian era. A good example in recent film is Wild Wild West (you know, the western in which Will Smith was battling that guy in the giant mechanized taranchula?). Anything that you can think of that blends those two elements is considered steampunk. H. G. Wells has written a few that would fall under that catagory.

[Calidore]

Also, an alternate history future in which technology of the past is still used, a la Pavane above.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I hope most in the genre are better than Wild Wild West. That movie suuuuuuuucked.

[papayahed]

Oh gosh. I can't be the only one that remembers the TV series can I?

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Oh gosh. I can't be the only one that remembers the TV series can I?

It had a white guy in it, right?