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SOURCES used in creating this Book Link brochure:“Best Steampunk Books (851 Books).” Best Steampunk Books (851 Books).

Accessed October 26, 2016. http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/618.Best_Steampunk_Books.

“Cyberpunk, Steampunk and Now Stitchpunk? Your Guide to 11 Sci-fi Punks.” Blastr. 2012. Accessed October 26, 2016. http://www.blastr.com/2009/09/guide_to_sci_fi_punks.php.

“Cyberpunk Derivatives.” Wikipedia. Accessed October 26, 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives.

“List of Steampunk Anime and Manga.” Steampunk Wiki. Accessed October 26, 2016. http://steampunk.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_steampunk_anime_and_manga.

“Punk Punk - TV Tropes.” TV Tropes. Accessed October 26, 2016. http://tvtropes .org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunkPunk.

Cover photo: “LuftFlotte Steampunk” by stephane, used under CC BY / Cropped from original.

Steampunk

A BOOK LINK GUIDE

Intro to Steampunk

Steampunk is a fascinating subgenre of the cyberpunk genre. Arguably, it’s the most popular subgenre. Steampunk in its truest form is more punk than steam. The steam aspect of steampunk comes from the advance of steam technology during the Victorian Era. Punk derives from the 70s and 80s punk movements that pushed for defiance of social and political norms. True punk art, be it music, literature, motion picture, or otherwise will always have a political or social agenda. Likewise, most steampunk will carry strong themes of defiance and an anti-establishment ideology.

Steampunk Series

♦ The Infernal Devices / Cassandra Clare ♦ His Dark Materials / Philip Pullman ♦ Leviathan / Scott Westerfeld ♦ The Clockwork Century / Cherie Priest ♦ Bas-Lag / China Miéville ♦ Parasol Protectorate / Gail Carriger ♦ Incarceron / Catherine Fisher ♦ Steampunk Chronicles / Kady Cross ♦ Matt Cruse / Kenneth Oppel ♦ The Hungry City Chronicles / Philip Reeve

Non-Fiction Titles

♦ Steampunk: The Art of Victorian Futurism / Jay Strongman

♦ Steampunk Jewelry / Spurgeon Vaughn Ratcliffe

♦ Steampunk: Back to the Future With the New Victorians / Paul Roland ♦ How to Draw Steampunk / Bob Berr,

Joey Marsocci & Allison DeBlasio

♦ Steampunk Your Wardrobe / Dr. Grymm with Barbe Saint John

♦ Steampunk Emporium / Jema Hewitt

♦ Steampunk LEGO / Guy Himber

♦ The Steampunk Adventurer’s Guide / Thomas Willeford

♦ The Steampunk Bible / Jeff VanderMeer with S.J. Chambers

Recent Titles

♦ The Aeronaut’s Windlass / Jim Butcher

♦ Updraft / Fran Wilde ♦ The Last Days of New Paris /

China Miéville ♦ Beauty and the Clockwork

Beast / Nancy Campbell Allen ♦ Everfair / Nisi Shawl

Graphic Novels/Manga

♦ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

♦ Full Metal Alchemist ♦ Avatar : The Last Airbender ♦ D.Gray-man

Honorary Steampunk Classics

Books that inspired the steampunk movement. ♦ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea /

Jules Verne ♦ The Time Machine / H.G. Wells ♦ Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Steampunk

illustrated edition) / Mary Shelley ♦ Poe (Steampunk illustrated edition) /

Edgar Allen Poe

Short Story Collections

♦ Steampunk / Ann VanderMeer and Joe R. Lansdale ♦ Mammoth Book of Steampunk ♦ Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories ♦ Steampunk Prime: A Vintage Steampunk Reader ♦ Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances