The steampunk genre has been captured via the written word for decades.  Here, you may discuss all steampunk-related fiction.

More than ten decades.  Surely we would include Saki's "When William Came", which tells the story of the fall of the British Empire from the point of view of an ethnologist who missed the fall because he was busy investigating the lives of a remote tribe in Siberia.

There are others of the era from 1890 to 1910, many of which were collected together by Michael Moorcock in the anthology "Before Armageddon", which he edited back in the 1970s.  They include several tales of different World War ones, written before it happened, ranging from G T Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking", which tells of the conquest of England by a joint French-Russian force to a thing called "When the New Zealander Comes" (by some obvious pseudonym that I shall treat as 'anonymous' published in Strand Magazine in 1911) which tells of an archeologist visiting the ruins of Europe.

And of course, then there are some of Moorcock's own stories, Particularly "The Warlord of the Air", "The Land Leviathan" and "The Steel Tsar" - which are the most obviously steampunk novels, although things like "The Ice Schooner", the 'Captain Bastable' stories and even 'Count Brass' probably fit into the genre if we push hard enough.

This Wiki contains a Literature list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steampunk_works

More Books: http://etheremporium.pbworks.c...Steampunk-Essentials
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:41, Sun 20 Feb 2011.

I was wondering if anyone hear would be interested in editing/proofing/beta reading my novel once I get it cleaned up and the way I like it? I'm in a critique group but they obviously don't grasp the concept of steampunk because they keep pointing out historical inaccuracies, even after I've told them steampunk makes it basically an alternate history.

edited to add: It starts out briefly in England and then comes to America and is a romance. So steampunk Western romance.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:43, Sun 04 Dec 2011.

Sounds interesting though i myself am new to the whole steampunk stuff.

Well I'm in a critique group but I don't think the people doing them truly understand that steampunk is an alternate history, and thus they keep telling me my history is off and that nothing I have laid out will work. Even when I pointed out that it's an alternate history.

Well i suck at history so you're safe from me on that front ;-)

Heh. Except for things that really stand out, I do too.

It has to be really standing out if you want me to notice. I managed to ditch history clas real soon as F was my favorite grade.

I only took American history...I would have enjoyed some other history but I feared getting the god awful teacher again that I couldn't hear sitting in the back of the class. But somehow, even if I had, I don't think I would ever have learned that at no time before the 20th century that a single woman in England would wear nothing but pastels. And that lace wasn't abundant. I always thought lace making was an ancient art.

Teachers are such good motivators ;-)