I don't know what it says, except that this is not really a category (or whatever) for me, but I've only read about six or seven of these.Jeff
Yeah--me too. A lot of these "steampunk" novels just don't do it for me.
The thunderous ignorance of what "genre" means, on even the shallowest level, just makes me angry.I bet you didn't know that NECROMANCER was the first sf novel that involved what could be called "technobabble"...
I didn't.
I'm pretty sure I wrote NEUROMANCER....but spell check must die, and die soon. Even thought I can certainly use it at times. Auto correct not so much.
I knew what you meant. I've heard that story before. I don't know if it's true, though.
Read about 14 of these.Deb-I don't believe any of these are really steampunk.
You mean, "technobabble"? That has been a feature of sf before Gernsback...Frances Godwin used a sort of prototechnobabble in his proto-sf THE MAN IN THE MOONE in 1638...a special species of swan, donate know, can fly you to the Moon(e)....
Spellcheck doesn't believe in "doncha"...I'm about to donate a disabling of autocorrect.
A couple are kinda sorta (ah) steampunk, at least: THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, and one other (and autocorrect is now back, somehow).
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I don't know what it says, except that this is not really a category (or whatever) for me, but I've only read about six or seven of these.
Jeff
Yeah--me too. A lot of these "steampunk" novels just don't do it for me.
The thunderous ignorance of what "genre" means, on even the shallowest level, just makes me angry.
I bet you didn't know that NECROMANCER was the first sf novel that involved what could be called "technobabble"...
I didn't.
I'm pretty sure I wrote NEUROMANCER....but spell check must die, and die soon. Even thought I can certainly use it at times. Auto correct not so much.
I knew what you meant. I've heard that story before. I don't know if it's true, though.
Read about 14 of these.
Deb-I don't believe any of these are really steampunk.
You mean, "technobabble"? That has been a feature of sf before Gernsback...Frances Godwin used a sort of prototechnobabble in his proto-sf THE MAN IN THE MOONE in 1638...a special species of swan, donate know, can fly you to the Moon(e)....
Spellcheck doesn't believe in "doncha"...I'm about to donate a disabling of autocorrect.
A couple are kinda sorta (ah) steampunk, at least: THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, and one other (and autocorrect is now back, somehow).
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