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Originally Posted by BlackVoid
Caution, some minor spoilers ahead.
... Another nicely built world that has a bad story (just like Perdido Street Station). Is it a feature of the steampunk subgenre? Anything steampunk I read starts out with a very interesting world, then disappoints with the story in a BIG WAY. In PSS I just could not care about the characters and it was boring. The Difference Engine by William Gibson was so drawn out and boring that I gave up on it halfway through. ...
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Speaking of steampunk, didja see this new show yesterday on SyFy (SciFi) called "Warehouse 13?" I looks cute, like they took X Files and Eureka and ran it through a blender. Anyhow, they have all of this mysterious technology in storage, but their cell phones feature a small B&W camera phone and are done up in steampunk fashion. If not for MR, I never would have known what steampunk is. Thanks for the education, MobileRead!
