Hi! I'm new to /lit/ and was wondering if you guys/gals could point me to the more high regarded SteamPunk works of literature. No joking about corsets pls and ThankYou.
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>>8226164
this.
>>8226054
The Difference Engine is the only "steampunk" book worthwhile
The genre is just a clusterfuck with no real conventions and many books aren't very good because nobody has any idea what to write about
Try some short story collections, they usually have at least one good story or two
>>8226229
True gentleman!
Jules Verne? XIX century science fiction in general?
>>8226054
There are no highly regarded steampunk works.
>>8226054
Too blatant 0/10
Why does everyone involved in steampunk have such a fondness for timepieces when none of them look like they have anywhere to be?
>>8227798
i lol'd
>>8226054
Steampunk is more of an aesthetics than a genre.
And it is not the type of aesthetics that translate well to literature because of how useless the description of environment details are to storytelling.
You could easily read a novel from Tolstoy and pretend it is steampunk. The author wouldn't have added steampunk elements for the sole merit of them not contributing to storytelling at all.
