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Books / Re: Steam punk research reading list
« on: January 31, 2011, 02:03:23 AM »@Bookstore Guy - I'm about 2/3 of the way through the book. (I'm reading quite slowly because I've been really busy. lol.) I decided to visit your blog to read your review on it. I find much of it very true. Maybe when I'm done with and think back to it I'll find the characters as boring as you describe. For now I kind of like the mystery of them and want to know what happens to them, but your review discourages me I won't learn much more than I already know.
Overall I'm enjoying the book, but it seems more of a leper-colony book to me than a steam punk novel. I have liked what steam punk elements have been talked about, but I wish there were more and they played a bigger part in the story.
EDIT - I forgot to mention something I was going to mention. In most steam punk I've seen it's all about just after the invention of steam punk technology and not too advanced. I want to try and write maybe a few short stories in that premise, but the novel itself I want to take it beyond. In way that asks, "What if steam kept going for a hundred years or two?" and "How would steam based technology evolve?" The short stories I'll write will focus on the advancements made in different parts of that 100 years or so, so that I can have some form of basis for the way things happened. Maybe I'll give up on this and write in a classic steam punk fashion. I don't know. I have a good basic storyline. (I think.) I need a few more side plots than what I have to give more insight to what's going on for a reader.