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Steampunk'd (2010)

by Jean Rabe(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0756406439 (ISBN13: 9780756406431)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

DAW

review 1: I bought this on impulse. I like steampunk as a genre, I like how it is becoming more popular. Here is a collection of short stories, so it aught to be really good. I was both surprised and let down at the same time. Some of the stories in this book are masterly crafted, the action flows well, the imagry is amazing, but there are also stories that fall short. Really short. One even seems to use the ultimate weak author tool of 'Deus Ex Machina' to bring their story to a close. Out of all the stories in this book, there are maybe two to three that I would say I truely enjoyed and made me continue to turn pages as I read. The rest...well...at least they are SHORT stories. If you love the steampunk genre, pick this book up. Perhaps you will enjoy it more than I did. I mean, I... more gave this better than a half rating, so I did enjoy it more than average. Take it as you will.
review 2: Nice collection of short stories. The collection is well written, but I stretch to refer to it as "steampunk". That's probably just my perspective. The stories focus on good and proper story telling in a Victorian time-setting with enhanced technology...at least most of them do. (I'm not sure how the faeire or the whisperer story fir into the steam genre.) But they don't focus so much on the steam technology and how it affects people, societies, and civilizations. Maybe the overriding statement is that steam tech or solid tech, people stay the same? less

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