music: BBC Books Podcast
Much discussion recently on the subject of steampunk literature. Here’s my list:
- The Windup Girl ~ Paolo Bacigalupi
- New Amsterdam ~ Jonathan Barnes
- The Somnambulist ~ Elizabeth Bear
- Crystal Rain ~ Tobias S. Buckell
- Scar Night ~ Alan Campbell
- The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters ~ Gordon Dahlquist
- The Steampunk Trilogy ~ Paul Di Filippo
- The Difference Engine ~ William Gibson
- Thunderer ~ Felix Gilman
- Neverwhere ~ Neil Gaiman
- The Court of the Air ~ Stephen Hunt
- Morlock Night ~ K. W. Jeter
- The Age of Unreason ~ J. Gregory Keyes
- Escapement ~ Jay Lake
- The Affinity Bridge ~ George Mann
- Perdido Street Station ~ China Mieville
- The Nomad of the Time Streams ~ Michael Moocock
- Anno Dracula ~ Kim Newman
- Airborn ~ Kenneth Oppel
- Whitechapel Gods ~ S.M. Peters
- The Anubis Gates ~ Tim Powers
- The Boneshaker ~ Cherie Priest
- The Golden Compass ~ Phillip Pullman
- The Alchemy of Stone ~ Ekaterina Sedia
- The Hunchback Assignments ~ Arthur Slade
- Eyes of Silver ~ Michael A. Stackpole
- Diamond Age ~ Neil Stephenson
- The Fall of Ile-Rien ~ Martha Wells
- Extraordinary Engines Anthology ~ Nick Gevers (ed.)
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret ~ Brian Selznick
- Steampunk ~ Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (eds.)
- The Grand Ellipse ~ Paula Volsky (eds.)
- Like a Wisp of Steam ~ steampunk erotica from Circlet Press
Gail’s Daily Dose
Your Infusion of Cute:
Oscar De La Renta’s Spring 2010 Collection
Your Tisane of Smart:
2,000-year-old ritual bath found in Jerusalem
Your Writerly Tinctures:
If you like werewolves.
CAKE in Space: With agent.
Soulless: PiggyDiva at Book Crossing has some very nice things to say. “Carriger is a less verbose Dickens, a less crass Wilde, and a less proper Austen.”
Changeless Release date currently April 2010. Copy edits are in.
Blameless: Still with first beta.
Quote of the Day:
“The virtue of books is to be readable.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson