101 Steampunk Titles

[Desdichado]

Just so I'm entirely clear: the Steampunk genre is not hybridized with fantasy, magic, elves, etc. -- in other words, a steampunkish D&D campaign setting has steampunk elements, but it's really a hybrid: steam fantasy or something. Right? Sorta like Shadowrun isn't truly cyberpunk in the same sense that cyberpunk fiction is. The genre "steampunk" is one I've struggled to understand exactly: I recognize steampunk elements when I see them, but what is the genre really? And is there any good steampunk fiction out there?

 

[s/LaSH]

Just so I'm entirely clear: the Steampunk genre is not hybridized with fantasy, magic, elves, etc. -- in other words, a steampunkish D&D campaign setting has steampunk elements, but it's really a hybrid: steam fantasy or something. Right? Sorta like Shadowrun isn't truly cyberpunk in the same sense that cyberpunk fiction is. The genre "steampunk" is one I've struggled to understand exactly: I recognize steampunk elements when I see them, but what is the genre really? And is there any good steampunk fiction out there?

You're absolutely correct. Steampunk is, technically, an historical era changed by the addition of technology or concepts from a later time, typically during the Victorian era. There's no fantasy involved... unless you want it, which a lot of people do.

I know of precisely three steampunk things in the world. There's the Steampunk Trilogy (by an author I've forgotten the name of; the collection goes by that name if you want to check a library), which was quite good. There's Steampunk, a short-lived comicbook series that came out a couple of years ago - looked interesting. And there's Arcanum, a computer RPG in the vein of Fallout which is full of technology-magic dichotomy; opinions are mixed about it, but I thought it was OK from the demo.

Oh, and

26. Sentient Babbage Machines: Triumph Or Terror?

 

[Daiymo]

27. Sylvan Steam: A History of Steamwork Technology in the Elven Nation by M. Greenleaf

 

[WayneLigon]

the Steampunk Trilogy (by an author I've forgotten the name of;

Paul Di Filippo -- The Steampunk Trilogy: ....three short novels in The Steampunk Trilogy. All are 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.

Also, the game Space: 1889

 

[NoOneofConsequence]

The Brothers of Babbage - my life as a steampunk gang banger

Hot&Wetware - steam powered anatomical enhancement constructions

The Coal Fired Eunuch(sp?)

 

[Kilmore]

Infernal Combustion: Elemental Application in Steam Technologies

 

[Knightfall]

Automated Thunder Machines of Steam
Clockwork Sorcery
MagePunk
MagicLight
SteaMagiK

 

[Maldur]

"The Young Gamers Illustrated Primer"