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Old 07-19-2015, 11:25 PM   #1
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Any new steampunk authors?
I like discovering new authors, and in spite of my age and curmudgeonly attitudes, I find I enjoy steampunk novels.

Any new authors out there, that we should keep an eye on?
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I enjoyed The Hanged Man by P.N Elrod but its more Victorian urban fantasy. A psychic and no clockworks or steam although there is a cameo by a dirigible. Has the feel of Newberry and Hobbes or Books and Braun. Future books could go either UF or Steampunk.
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Have you read Vermilion by Molly Tanzer?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24485148

I thought it was a graphic novel for the longest time because of the cover.
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I like discovering new authors, and in spite of my age and curmudgeonly attitudes, I find I enjoy steampunk novels.

Any new authors out there, that we should keep an eye on?
The Forever Engine by Frank Chadwick link to sample chapters

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Original Trade Paperback. The exciting debut of a steampunk masterpiece from legendary game author and creator of the staple steampunk role playing game, Space: 1889. The stunning unveiling of a perfectly formed steampunk past, from an author who helped define the genre.

London 1888. His Majesty’s airships troll the sky powered by antigrav liftwood as a cabal of Iron Lords tightens its hold on a Britain choked by the fumes of industry. Mars has been colonized, and clockwork assassins stalk the European corridors of power. And somewhere far to the east, the Old Man of the Mountains plots the end of the world with his Forever Engine.

Enter Jack Fargo. Scholar. Former special forces operator in Afghanistan. A man from our own near future thrust back in time—or to wherever it is that this Brave Victorian World actually exists. Aided only by an elderly Scottish physicist, a young British officer of questionable courage, and a beautiful but mysterious spy for the French Commune, Fargo is a man on a mission: save the future from irrevocable destruction when the Forever Engine is brought to full power and blows this universe, and our own, to smithereens.


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He's been around for a while. Just in case you haven't heard of him: China Miéville. Start with Perdido Street Station.
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The Forever Engine by Frank Chadwick
Oh yes. A fun book. While not steampunk, his noir SF How Dark the World Becomes is also a good read.
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I like a recent offshoot of steampunk known as "flintlock fantasy":fantasy worlds but with Napoleonic era armaments and trappings.
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Has anyone read The Iron Assassin by Ed Greenwood? His background is Forgotten Realms traditional sword and sorcery fantasy. Its in Overdrive (woo woo!) but the Goodreads reviews make me wary.
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I like a recent offshoot of steampunk known as "flintlock fantasy":fantasy worlds but with Napoleonic era armaments and trappings.
Brian McClellan's Powder Mage series comes to mind.
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Here are a few steampunky books you might want to check out, most are on the light hearted side:

Ballantine, Pip & Morris, Tee Phoenix Rising
Akers, Tim Heart of Veridon
Harper, Steven The Doomsday Vault
Cross, Kate aka Kathryn Smith Heart of Brass
Carriger, Gail Soulless
Dru Pagliassotti The Clockwork Heart
Griffith, Clay The Greyfriar
Hobson, MK The Native Star
Lake, Jay Main Spring
Bear, Elizabeth New Amsterdam, Karen Memory
Locke, Kate God Save the Queen
Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl (Fabulous)
Baker, Kage The Anvil of the World (Fab and hilarious)
Saintcrow, Lilith The Iron Wyrm Affair
Jones, Jaida Havemercy
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Cool Jim Butcher is a very new steampunk author . . .


The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires #1) by Jim Butcher

Though Jim Butcher is a very successful writer he is a new steampunk author. Why? Because his very first steampunk novel hasn't yet been released, though it will be released in hardback, paperback, ebook and audio CD next Tuesday, September 29th!

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I like the Girl Genius novels by Phil and Kaja Foglio, based on their very popular graphic stories available online and in print. Start reading the novels with Agatha H and the Airship City.
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The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis.

Not quite steampunk, but close.
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The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis.

Not quite steampunk, but close.
The blurb for that is in first person is the book as well?

Trudi Canavan's Thief's Magic has magic driven clockwork like mechanics but I'm only on chapter 3 so can't say how it'll fall yet. Fantasy and not the pulp adventure sort of feel I lump in with steampunk.

Been waiting for that Butcher book since it was announced. Sanderson's next novel is out in mid-Oct and is set in an early industrial future of his Mistborn world. High adventure, motorcars, guns, no clockworks so the setting may fall into more of the flintlock fantasy category.
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