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« Reply #225 on: August 19, 2011, 12:16:45 am » |
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Finally got myself a copy of Mark Hodder's 'Curious Case of the Clockwork Man' today!
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« Reply #226 on: August 19, 2011, 01:48:30 pm » |
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Finally got myself a copy of Mark Hodder's 'Curious Case of the Clockwork Man' today!
a good choice, I hope Mr Hodder is working on a sequal as we speak I belive he is - as Burton will be travelling to Africa to find the source of the Nile. Currently reading 'Heartless' - always a good giggle. Mr. Hodder's 3rd is already available for advance order. And I'm also reading 'Heartless'.  |
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« Reply #227 on: August 19, 2011, 04:54:16 pm » |
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Half way through "Witches of Chiswick" by our esteemed Commadore R. Rankin.
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« Reply #228 on: August 19, 2011, 05:52:49 pm » |
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Picked up a copy of 1632 by Eric Flint. Not SP but shares that fictional quality of "What if..."
the whole series is a massive ball of fun. and the !632 Universe has spun off its own 'E' magazine called the Grantville Gazette the current issue is 32 or 33. a couple of members here have had bits both fact and fiction published in G.G. Miles |
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« Reply #229 on: August 19, 2011, 06:43:52 pm » |
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« Reply #230 on: August 19, 2011, 11:49:00 pm » |
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Finished The Affinity Bridge which was fairly enjoyable.
Now on Tim Akers Dead of Veridon which is the follow-up to Heart of Veridon and really enjoying it
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« Reply #231 on: August 20, 2011, 04:31:44 am » |
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I'm just now starting to reread Phule's Company by Robert Asprin lol
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« Reply #232 on: August 20, 2011, 08:58:40 pm » |
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finished Dead of Veridon, just as good as read as Heart of Veridon -really gripping, grimy and blackly humourous
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« Reply #233 on: August 21, 2011, 07:49:29 pm » |
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Currently reading: The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities
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« Reply #234 on: August 22, 2011, 08:45:45 am » |
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Finally finished A Game of Thrones (not had a lot of reading time recently) and I'm not onto A Clash of Kings!
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« Reply #235 on: August 24, 2011, 06:34:20 pm » |
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This may be a silly question, but...only steam punk related books, right? I'm an avid reader so I must ask. If that's the case then... The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells. |
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« Reply #236 on: August 24, 2011, 06:52:00 pm » |
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This may be a silly question, but...only steam punk related books, right? I'm an avid reader so I must ask. If that's the case then... The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells. No no, anything we happen to be reading can go here. At the moment I'm reading Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn. A really good read. |
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« Reply #237 on: August 24, 2011, 07:14:24 pm » |
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Oh, great!  In that case, in addition to Wells, I'm also reading: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams Double Helix by James D. Watson |
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« Reply #238 on: August 24, 2011, 11:01:33 pm » |
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Picked up Gail Carriger's "Blameless" today. Hope to start reading it this weekend.
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« Reply #239 on: August 25, 2011, 11:41:44 am » |
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I've just taken delivery of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt (1913). A slim volume (it's about the saem length as Wells' The Time Machine), it's beautifully illustrated throughout. And the best part? It cost one whole penny from Amazon! |
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« Reply #240 on: August 25, 2011, 05:45:13 pm » |
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I'm in the middle of about three books: Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy The Air Trust by George Allan England and The Crystal Button by Chauncey Thomas So far they're interesting but a little hard going, decidedly wordy but that's just a style difference. They're all 19th/early 20th century originals. I'll work up to some modern ones soon I've promised myself that I shall read the Parasol Protectorate series before January and have a list as long as my parasol to work through I shall next be reading the Sydeian Coallition by James Richardson-Brown and am looking forward to it very much as it seems to be written in a diary/first person format, which is one of my favourites. |
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« Reply #241 on: August 26, 2011, 06:10:49 am » |
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Christopher Fowler; 'The Seventy-Seven Clocks'. The murder mystery is grim and takes place in modern-day London, but the revealed story surely has to be steamy. A Victorian clockwork conspiracy? A starving Bengal tiger as murder weapon? Quite a glimpse into a dark Victorian Empire mentality. And did I say funny?
And everybody, please take a look at Connie Willis' time travel book, 'To Say Nothing of the Dog.' Her Victorian England is so well researched and Jerome K. Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' lovers will enjoy the references.
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« Reply #242 on: August 26, 2011, 09:50:06 pm » |
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Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter
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Gripla XX edited Vesteinn Olason - which is not steampunk at all, is history.
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« Reply #243 on: August 28, 2011, 05:59:39 am » |
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As somebody said on the other thread, I'm reading Larklight for class. I was so happy to see something Steamy instead amongst just teenage-based vampire romances. Tomorow I'm hoping to find Warm Bodies by Isaac something or another. Oh how I love literature! |
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« Reply #244 on: August 29, 2011, 12:27:46 am » |
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Last night I finished Mark Hodder's 'The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man'..absolutely loved it. I love the alternate past he's created with it's rotochairs, omnipedes and 'Folks Wagon Beetle' and I look forward avidly to the next one on the series, At The Mountains of The Moon'. Excellent stuff. |
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« Reply #245 on: August 29, 2011, 05:38:00 pm » |
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Since I'm working on a book in the vein myself, I thought I'd brush up on some of my Steampunky lit (with a bent toward fantasy rather than speculative science). I'm currently working on Ekaternia Sedia's Alchemy of Stone which is turning out to be wonderful. It's told from the point of view of an Automaton and about her complicated relationship with her creator and the world at large. It's just beautiful, well written, and thought provoking. Highly suggest it.
I've got it on Ye Olde Kindle along with a slew of other more Weird Westy stuff coming up after it.
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« Reply #246 on: August 30, 2011, 05:33:12 am » |
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Hello,
I'm new here and this looks to be a good place to start.
I'm currently reading Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay. It's an early Victorian nonfiction book covering various outbreaks of mass stupidity. Still in the first section on economic bubbles, which might as well have been written last week as in 1841. It's in the public domain and therefore free on Kindle (my recent birthday gift). I recommend it.
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« Reply #247 on: August 30, 2011, 03:50:54 pm » |
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Taking a break from Steampunk novels for a while, today I started ' The Elephant to Hollywood'..Michael Caine's autobiography....and not a lot of people know that!  |
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« Reply #248 on: September 01, 2011, 03:58:43 pm » |
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Picked up Gail Carriger's Heartless on Monday wile out hunting dry ice, looking to be as well written as the rest...I like the series so far four books now waiting for Timeless to be out next march.
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« Reply #249 on: September 01, 2011, 05:03:09 pm » |
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Just finished Alchemy of Stone. Good book, interesting concept. Bit of a downer ending, but that doesn't take anything away from it. All the characters acted as they should have given the circumstances, so I'm really happy she didn't decide to break character for the sake of a happy ending.
Between books at the moment. I'm working through the latest Dresden Files book Slowly (very slowly) but surely. Have to read that one at home in my spare time since it's so large I can't sneak it in to work.
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