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Steampunk is the twisted offspring of science fiction and postmodernism, a sassy, unpredictable tongue-in-cheek style of which the incomparable Paul Di Filippo is master. The three short novels in The Steampunk Trilogy are all set in a very alternative nineteenth century, and feature a mixture of historical and imaginary figures. In "Victoria," a young and lissome Queen Victoria disappears from her throne and is replaced by a sexy human/newt clone. The race is on to find the original Victoria and to hide the terrible secret from the nation. In "Hottentots," Massachusetts is threatened by monsters from the deep; in "Walt and Emily," Emily Dickinson hooks up with a robust and lusty Walt Whitman, loses her virginity, and travels to a dimension beyond time where she meets the future Allen Ginsberg.
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Read the first of the 3 stories and liked it a lot and am on the 2nd now - steampunk in an alternate Victorian/19th Century setting - good stuff although Mr. Di Felippo seems to have a penchant for sexual activity that is perhaps not quite necessary - we are not talking Jose Farmer's porno period but Di Felippo could easily have written excellent stories without quite as much sexual content - Jack Vance never needed it - gosh I'm coming across as quite the prude! Still half a book to go...
Finished all 3 stories now and a 3 star rating is all I can muster. Worth reading but not the stunning/can't put it down read that I was expecting. The third story centres around Emily Dickinson and her ambivalent relationship with the world and Walt Whitman. Interesting and imaginative but not top of my steam punk list.
Finished all 3 stories now and a 3 star rating is all I can muster. Worth reading but not the stunning/can't put it down read that I was expecting. The third story centres around Emily Dickinson and her ambivalent relationship with the world and Walt Whitman. Interesting and imaginative but not top of my steam punk list.
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This is actually 3 separate, but loosely linked, short stories. I'd already read the first, "Victoria," in the excellent anthology Steampunk.
I'd been looking for some new Steampunk to read and this was recommended to me as a good example of the genre.
The first story concerns Queen Victoria and a large newt. It's all good fun and does a lot to play with our perceptions of the 19th Century monarch.
The second, "Hottentots," follows a Swiss naturalist (and revolting racialist) as he becomes involved in an exciting quest to retrieve a fetish object.
Finally, the story "Walt and Emily" concerns Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as they travel the astral plane (and embark on a wild affair).
This book won't be for everyone. It is written very much with and eye for a feel of the language of the time, though I feel that other aspects of the novel make it feel quite up-to-date...in an odd way. I think that it's because the themes of the stories and the playfulness that he has with real figures from history and the mores of the time. In, for example, Hottentots, the naturalist is a disgusting white supremacist, but his adventures (as well as making him look like an idiot) do make him deal with his ignorance. The first and last stories deal with female sexuality and also our perceptions of Queen Victoria and especially Emily Dickinson, who was almost a complete recluse.
This won't appeal to everyone, but if you can bear the social commentary in all this, it's a great book. I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it.
I'd been looking for some new Steampunk to read and this was recommended to me as a good example of the genre.
The first story concerns Queen Victoria and a large newt. It's all good fun and does a lot to play with our perceptions of the 19th Century monarch.
The second, "Hottentots," follows a Swiss naturalist (and revolting racialist) as he becomes involved in an exciting quest to retrieve a fetish object.
Finally, the story "Walt and Emily" concerns Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as they travel the astral plane (and embark on a wild affair).
This book won't be for everyone. It is written very much with and eye for a feel of the language of the time, though I feel that other aspects of the novel make it feel quite up-to-date...in an odd way. I think that it's because the themes of the stories and the playfulness that he has with real figures from history and the mores of the time. In, for example, Hottentots, the naturalist is a disgusting white supremacist, but his adventures (as well as making him look like an idiot) do make him deal with his ignorance. The first and last stories deal with female sexuality and also our perceptions of Queen Victoria and especially Emily Dickinson, who was almost a complete recluse.
This won't appeal to everyone, but if you can bear the social commentary in all this, it's a great book. I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it.
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The subgenre of steampunk is, i think, better represented by Perdido Street station by China Mieville than this complilation.
The first story was the strongest, although it seemed to go on for longer than necessary. I certainly smiled, if not laughed, but was not very much amused (weak pun, i know).
The second and third stories also went on a bit, but lacked the wit of the first, and the social comment was rather heavy-handed. I suppose i didn't really understand the context of "Walt and Emily", but nevertheless I was disappointed with the last two thirds of the book.
Read the first one, but the second two aren't worth the bother. For really good steampunk, look elsewhere.
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