Its best described as asian inspired steampunk and i think it would be right up your alleyI too would like to know. The volunteer narrators there have been busy recording over 4,000 titles since we last updated them on our site back in 2014. It's a fantastic story that's like a wild mashup of Alice in Wonderland, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dante's Inferno, and Girl Genius, at least in my opinion. ... William wrote: "Watchmen is more of a "Steampunk" Graphic novel no?" Is this what you would say if you found yourself a guest in the home of a stranger? Something based on the appropriate technology of the era; like ‘steam-punks’, perhaps.1. As the saying goes, a story starts out with a character with a problem in a setting. One of the best things about reading a comic or graphic novel is when we get to drool over some award-winning art while turning the pages. That was thoughtless of me, and I appreciate that you explained why that game relates to steampunk. Wells, Verne, Shelly and others are important sources of inspiration for steampunk but they are not steampunk authors themselves. But both are taking forever to continue. 23 Best Cyberpunk Books March 31, 2015 Cyberpunk , List Dan If any genre of science fiction is actually right about the future, it’s probably cyberpunk: rule by corporations, “high tech and low life,” cybernetics, the use of technology in ways its creators never intended, and loners wandering a landscape covered with lenses and screens.

Most steampunks know little about steampunk’s origins. When he misses his return trip he must survive in City plagued by a mass murdering Egyptian god and an evil sorcerer clown. Despite its anachronistic veneer, steampunk is a very contemporary genre expressing contemporary interests and concerns. For the sake to brevity I will present only two particularly important second wave books.In 1990 William Gibson was one of the hottest names in sci-fi. The version he rewrote for inclusion in the The steampunk written today is part of a fourth wave. And Peter Jackson is adapting the films!Seconded! When he comes upon a drug, Snow Crash, which is experienced both in the virtual-reality Metaverse and the real world, he decides to investigate and embarks on a truly wild journey.Trouble is semi-retired from being a hacker, in a dystopian future where the frontier of cyberspace is being civilized by the forces of law and order—until someone starts impersonating Trouble online, and she has to take matters into her own hands. There was third wave around the year 2000. If you are going to be the older and wiser guy, please at least get an author’s name right. The first book in the Ware Tetralogy, this 1982 novel is part of the first wave of the actual cyberpunk movement. Anyone else want to address the notion that steampunk has nothing to do with Victorian England? There seem to be a lot of detective steampunk novels coming out with female leads. I don’t feel like I did very well defending my thesis, so to speak.Too many of these people are too young to know where steampunk really started.I think, from all of these comments, that it is hard to give a definitive time or work that “really started steampunk”. This awesome cyberpunk comic book series (1997-2002) is set sometime in the 23rd century and follows the infamous gonzo journalist Spider Jerusalem as he fights corruption, exposes politicians and generally gets into trouble in the filthy, hedonistic City. Are there any good steampunk books you would recommend for me to read while I wait?It's a little more fantasy than proper steampunk, but Jim Butcher recently released yeah I was gonna say that. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260579723084 Not overly so, but increasingly so in the second book.I devoured both in fast order, and can't wait for the third book in this brilliant new series.Yes Senlin Ascends! There's five of them, I believe. Cadigan creates a lively, bizarre vision of a world of pervasive brain implants—where the line between the virtual and the “real” is thinner than ever—and populates it with hackers, music-video makers, and rebels. Infernal Devices. Wells… Even the term “Steampunk” is a poor descriptor… “punk” has no bearing on the matter… perhaps there is too much acceptance and following along… crowd shadowing… too many entrepreneurs and novelists controlling the flock to their own advantage… a better title could be “Vernean Sci-fi”… or even “Victorian Sci-fi”… however, the damage is done… “BUT… I do not think of the nine authors and books listed by this blog… they may be fine books of today… but they do not define “Steampunk” by the very fact that Jules Verne predated them by 150 years… and H.G. to me that those things were out there, and are part of steampunk.