(Part 2) Top products from r/steampunk

Anti Ice by Stephan Baxter is awesome (19th century England gets its hands on antimatter), as is his The Time Ships which is basically a sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.

I really enjoyed Lindsay Buroker's Flash Gold series about an inventor in the Yukon, and Michael Coorlim's And They Called Her Spider was also quite fun (an assassin is on the loose in London).

Finally, I'll hock my own steampunk short story, To Rescue General Gordon which is about 3 British soldiers who steal an airship to rescue General Charles "Chinese" Gordon in the Sudan.

Writing stories is a bit like a steam locomotive: it works best when the boiler is riveted shut.

In other words, be careful how much you talk about a story before you actually write it, or you may lose momentum.

That said, sounds like you have an interesting premise. Good luck, and remember: bird by bird! (If that makes no sense, you need to read this book.)

Girl Genius is a little whimsical/fantastical to draw direct inspiration from, but it captures the spirit like none other.

Also, Gotham by Gaslight was fun.

There's a PDF scan of The Arrival on Scribd.com or you can buy it on Amazon.

Super cool: The Spare Parts Puppet Theater in Australia adapted it as a stage show.

>The story involves magic and the mages being hunted.

sounds similar to the parasol protectorate, a series of magic-vs-steampunky types.

Read a bunch, figure out what works for you, ask specific questions about what you're looking for (see corrupt reverend's query).

If you'd like to mix some more advanced tech with steampunk-y themes, google dieselpunk.

The diagrams alone were enough to make me wince! I recently ordered Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery and am very much looking forward to reading all about how horrific medical procedures were through the 1800s.

Thanks for sharing another great article.

"What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England"

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It's a reference book of all the mundane info you need to write a living, breathing world. You need to know the rules before you cnasteampunk them.

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This review describes it nicely: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R15YUTEEGOWF7V/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0671882368

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https://www.amazon.com/Austen-Charles-Dickens-Whist-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0671882368

A quick google brought up this.. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Edge-Chronicles-10-Immortals/dp/0552551287
Hope you find what your looking for

Along with some of the comments, this is starting to sound like Leviathan.

This novel. It really lays down a lot of common themes and ideas before any of the more conventional alternatives.

They are 20 bucks on amazon with 2 day delivery.

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The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook.
[goodreads] (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7864587-the-iron-duke?from_search=true)
[amazon] (https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Duke-Seas-Book/dp/0425244261)

Reminds me of:

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Still have my copy from childhood.

Reminds me of Are You My Mother?

"You are a snort!"

Im reading Steampunk'D right now but it's a collection of 14 Steampunk short stories.

I recomend the Lady Mechanika comics. It's published once a month.

Reminds me of the rise of the iron moon by stephen hunt

Not bad. Sometimes I had trouble getting a clear picture of scenes he was describing (might have been my own fault) but overall it kept me engaged. He can be fairly brutal to his characters but I felt it added a bit of grittiness that made things a little more believable. First book is called "Mainspring"

Agatha H. and the Airship City by Phil & Kaja Foglio, or any of their "Girl Genius" Graphic Novels.

Mainspring, Escapement, and Pinion by Jay Lake

The Short story "Zeppelin City" by Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick.

The Clockwork Century series by Cherie Priest, set during the American Civil War as opposed to Victorian London: Boneshaker, Dreadnought , Ganymede, and Clementine.

Well, English language literature is generally going to focus on English language cultures (an aspect which http://beyondvictoriana.com/ often dissects), but there's a few English language options out there that I'm aware of. These are by no means a complete list, just a sampling of what's out there, although some had to be sampled harder for than others.

First off, There's plenty of Steampunk works that have no basis in Earth's geography. The Grand Ellipse, the Half-Made World series, or the Bas-Lag series, for example, feature exceedingly disparate world building with hints of influence drawn from a variety of cultures.

Other novels may have travel perspectives, wherein a traditional relatable English adventurer visits the far flung vistas and locales; e.g. Escape from Xanadu, or Behemoth & Goliath for example)

Other books may be set in other European Cultures

• Pasquale's Angel - set in a Da Vinci engineered Industrial Revolution in Florence
  
• Going back to Verne, of course, we have to remember he was writing in French and his characters were assembled from many cultures- Captain Nemo was originally Indian, despite his portrayal in film.
  
  As far as Asia goes:
  
  
• Peshawar Lancers - this features an Indian/British merging of the cultures, after Europe is destroyed in a meteor strike.
  
• Steampowered Globe
  
• Lotus War
  
  Really, because of the language barrier and the fact that literature is ALL language, multicultural steampunk I think more often bridges the gap in the form of movies,video games, and other visual arts.
  That being said, if you're not looking for English language literature, there's plenty more people writing books in their native language.