Its publication marks a significant, self-conscious moment in the history of the movement. 'It's hard to imagine how VanderMeer and Chambers could have put together a stronger collection. The Steampunk Bible is far and away the most intriguing catalog of all things steam yet written. Praise for The Steampunk Bible: The Steampunk Bible is an informed, informative and beautifully illustrated survey of the subject. This ultimate manual will appeal to aficionados and novices alike as author Jeff VanderMeer takes the reader on a wild ride through the clockwork corridors of Steampunk history. Steampunk evokes a sense of adventure and discovery, and embraces extinct technologies as a way of talking about the future. A burgeoning DIY community has brought a distinctive Victorian-fantasy style to their crafts and art. Its adherents celebrate the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated airships and robots.

Wells through its most recent expression in movies such as Sherlock Holmes. Chambers is an independent Poe scholar focusing on his importance to genre literature like Steampunk. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of Jules Verne and H. Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning author and coeditor of a bestselling anthology of Steampunk literature.

See the isfdb links for these details.Steampunk-a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture-is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. Most reprinted authors: Jeffrey Ford, Tanith Lee, and Zitkala-èa (5 each, the last with a quintet of related tales in Classic Fantasy), then William Gibson and Michael Moorcock (4 each).Ĭontents are taken from isfdb, omitting many details about translators, original titles, and forms of the authors' names. The Big Book of Science Fiction especially includes a lengthy introduction re-evaluating the concept of SF, as well as a substantial introduction to each story assessing the author's history and significance to the field. Thus the early volumes include essays and roundtables to discuss the origins of steampunk or the meaning of 'new weird,' while later anthologies, like the two Big Books (a third is forthcoming), range across world literature for unfamiliar examples of their genres, some stories translated into English for the first time. The increasingly ambitious anthologies of the VanderMeers - all but one of these titles are edited by both Ann and Jeff VanderMeer - explore interstitial genres and the far reaches of traditional genres.

Steampunk by Jeff VanderMeer