Episode 082 - Steampunk

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This month we’re reading Steampunk! We talk about the history of the genre, umbrella fights, boring white men, colonialization, graphic novel adaptations, werewolf sex, good vs bad worldbuilding, and Matthew made a spreadsheet and did some math (of course…).

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Discussed This Month

• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
• Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
• Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter
• The Difference Engine by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
• Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction edited by Dominik Parisien
• Soulless by Gail Carriger
• Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 1 by Gail Carriger and Rem

Other Steampunk (or “Steampunk”) Books We’ve Read (or tried to…)

• Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio
• The Glass Scientists by Sabrina Cotugno
• Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
• The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng
• • Discussed in Episode 014 - Historical Fantasy
• Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
• Everfair by Nisi Shawl
• Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke
• Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
• • Discussed in Episode 013 - Spies and Espionage
• Bronze Gods by A.A. Aguirre
• The Stowaway Debutante by Rebecca Diem
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann
• • “If I wanted to read Batman fanfiction, I could probably find better fic on the Internet for free.” - Goodreads review
• The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
• The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Other Media We Mention

• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Chap hop
• • Fighting Trousers - Professor Elemental
• The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang
• Rat Queens
• The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

Links, Articles, and Things

• S.S. Librarianship
• Aether (classical element)
• Timeline of *Punk fiction subgenres
• Fantasy of manners
• Sad Puppies
• Bakka-Phoenix Books - Sci-Fi/Fantasy bookstore in Toronto
• Gaslamp fantasy
• Intro to Speculative Fiction by People of Color
• Atrocities in the Congo Free State

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 20th we’ll be discussing The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin.

Then on Tuesday, September 3rd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of politics.