Post by account_disabled on Dec 26, 2023 2:26:11 GMT -6
SteampunkI began to appreciate this narrative genre - or subgenre, whatever you want to call it - when I didn't yet know what it was. I have never liked assigning names to narrative genres, as well as to artistic currents or philosophical and political thoughts. These names have always been difficult for me to memorize. However, I remember that I liked the film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and that I had already seen something in that genre, even if I no longer remember what. What attracted me was the anachronism that characterizes steampunk. I saw it as a kind of ahead of its time, and that's what it is, basically. So, in short, a kind of science fiction present in the past.
Simply fantastic and brilliant. Lately I have wanted to delve deeper into this genre, I have the idea of also participating in the Ucronie impure literary competition , where the main theme is alternative Special Data history or uchronia, in which steampunk is also included. I also purchased Bonelli's comic miniseries Greystorm . So, doing some research on the web, I came across an interesting volume of steampunk stories. The title of the collection, to avoid any misunderstanding, is Steampunk and is presented by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer. As we read on the back cover, steampunk is Victorian elegance and modern technology. They are robots moved by steam ( steam means steam, Ed.), souped-up stagecoaches, airships that go into space, mad scientists and very tidy waistcoats.
In short, a very clear picture of how the setting of the stories could present itself. The collection contains a foreword written by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, entitled “Steampunk: It's a Clockwork Universe, Victoria” and an interesting introduction, “The 19-th Century Roots of Steampunk” by Jeff Nevins. In the book there are two extracts from as many novels that open and close the collection. At the end, two articles on steampunk and 11 stories in total, including one by Joe R. Lansdale, The Steam Man of the Prairie and The Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel .
Simply fantastic and brilliant. Lately I have wanted to delve deeper into this genre, I have the idea of also participating in the Ucronie impure literary competition , where the main theme is alternative Special Data history or uchronia, in which steampunk is also included. I also purchased Bonelli's comic miniseries Greystorm . So, doing some research on the web, I came across an interesting volume of steampunk stories. The title of the collection, to avoid any misunderstanding, is Steampunk and is presented by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer. As we read on the back cover, steampunk is Victorian elegance and modern technology. They are robots moved by steam ( steam means steam, Ed.), souped-up stagecoaches, airships that go into space, mad scientists and very tidy waistcoats.
In short, a very clear picture of how the setting of the stories could present itself. The collection contains a foreword written by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, entitled “Steampunk: It's a Clockwork Universe, Victoria” and an interesting introduction, “The 19-th Century Roots of Steampunk” by Jeff Nevins. In the book there are two extracts from as many novels that open and close the collection. At the end, two articles on steampunk and 11 stories in total, including one by Joe R. Lansdale, The Steam Man of the Prairie and The Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel .