{"id":104,"date":"2008-08-22T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=104"},"modified":"2025-08-01T02:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:02:36","slug":"more-steampunk-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/more-steampunk-please\/","title":{"rendered":"More steampunk, please!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read a lot of Neal Stephenson\u2019s stuff and the only thing he\u2019s written that I cautiously suspect might possibly could be classified steampunk is Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady\u2019s Illustrated Primer<\/em><\/a>, but I still don\u2019t know if that makes it steampunk because it\u2019s set in the future with Victorian aesthetics instead of in Victoriana with modern technology. (Great book, BTW, but I really really liked The Big U<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been meaning to get into it (really!), especially after looking at sites such as Steampunk Workshop<\/a> and Kit Stolen<\/a>\u2019s site (and oh, isn\u2019t he<\/em> a beautiful man; you know I had to make a character out of him).<\/p>\n

But this limits me because to me, steampunk is eye candy, as in goods: Pretty clothes and pretty things and gorgeous textures–all DIY. I mean, really. Look at this stuff. It begs caressment.<\/p>\n

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And oh, various steampunk keyboards are for sale at Datamancer<\/a>, FYI.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019ve been reading a short story by Eva Gale, which is post-apocalyptic for one and steampunk for two (steam engines? of course it is). The story is from Phaze anthology Fantasy IV<\/em><\/a> and is called \u201cScorpion\u2019s Orchid.\u201d And now my appetite for steampunk fiction is whet and I want more, but SF\/F is a foreign land to me. Obviously, I\u2019m going to take suggestions<\/a> off of Steampunk Workshop\u2019s site, but help me out here, folks. Good steampunk (with or without utopian\/dystopian elements) suggestions being solicited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read a lot of Neal Stephenson\u2019s stuff and the only thing he\u2019s written that I cautiously suspect might possibly could be classified steampunk is Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady\u2019s Illustrated Primer, but I still don\u2019t know if that makes it steampunk because it\u2019s set in the future with Victorian aesthetics instead of in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[567,584,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craftsmanship","category-culture","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17241,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/17241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}