On My Book Radar: Steampunk, the anthology edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
A couple of months ago, I wrote briefly about Steampunk. Since then, I have been looking out for anything related to the genre/artists/movement – it so fascinates and delights me. This book came out months ago, but it is just now on my radar. I cannot wait to read this. Here is the entire review. Here is an excerpt:
The VanderMeers’s anthologies seem to be establishing a new landmark for the oughts with their mixture of fiction and non-fiction pieces. After not only publishing articles in The New Weird, they also published (for the first time in an SF anthology, as far as I know) a web discussion list thread in order to get their readers more acquainted with their experiences during its compilation.
The same applies to their new and much-awaited anthology, Steampunk. The anthology begins and ends with short articles on steampunk arcana.
It sounds marvelous AND included in this anthology is writing by Michael Chabon, who you all know is a favorite-favorite and Neal Stephenson, who’s writing floors me and makes me feel stupid, but in a good way. (Someday… in a remote location, in the deep of winter, when I have found the perfect tea and I’m completely snowed in and I have nothing to do but blissfully read for a few months in a comfy chair by a fireplace… I will finish Quicksilver. I swear. It’s the kind of book that deserves complete attention in perfect conditions for reading it, and seeing that it’s unlikely I will ever make an ocean crossing at the turn of the century, I will continue to cling to my deep winter-snowed in-perfect tea fantasy.)
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Note to Self: Read more writing by and anthologies edited by the VanderMeers.
And for the second time in a couple of days, the voice of Rossi is in my head. He told me to read Jeff VanderMeer ages ago.
Errr… Note to Self: Listen to Matt Rossi more often.
