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Warp-CrowJul 30, 2004 3:00am
Time for some activity in this group. What about steampunk recommendations? I'd recommend Last Exile and Trigun for anime lovers. I know of only one really good Hollywood steampunk movie, Back to the Future 3, but feel free to correct me on that. In video games, I personally loved Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (PC) and Chrono Trigger (SNES). As for books, I'm in need of recommendations here as I really haven't explored it much. I liked The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, which is set in the future but I would consider it steampunk nonetheless.
landamJul 13, 2005 8:10pm
As far as books go, I'd recommend Perdido Street Station by China Mieville.
JC68HC11DLLJul 13, 2005 8:24pm
Only one really good steampunk movie??? What about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Time Machine, Wild, Wild West (lol)... I'm not sure whether Brazil qualifies, maybe not. Harry Potter, yeah kinda. Then there's Chronicles of Riddick, clearly science fiction set in the future, but had throwbacks to the past such as the armor worn by characters in the movie, very gothic, although not necessarily steampunk. I'm sure there's more I just can't think of at the moment.

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MrPopoJul 14, 2005 7:36am
3: I think you're really reaching with Chronicles of Riddick and ...um Harry Potter. I'd consider steampunk to be anachronistic victorian alternate history. Chronicles of Riddick was bad sci-fi set in the future. Harry potter is almost pure fantasy.

I do agree with you on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Time Machine and Wild, Wild West. Even though Wild, wild west was set in the old west its close enough.
landamJul 14, 2005 8:13am
City of Lost Children loosely fits the bill (at least in visual terms), though there are a lot of fantasy elements. Here is Wikipedia's list of movies under the "steampunk" entry.

3: I hated League of Extraordinary Gentleman, but mostly because the graphic novel was so good and I had high expectations.

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MrPopoJul 14, 2005 10:09am
5: I agree with you on League of Extraordinary Gentleman, but not many graphic novels make the jump cleanly from print to big screen. Take Constantine, I loved the comic books and when I heard they were making the movie I thought it couldn't be done. But I made the assumption that they were going to try to do a good job. My mistake. It was terrible. But maybe my expectations were too high.

SoDaAug 2, 2005 8:09am
Sin City & Hellboy are graphic novels, who to mine humble opinion were pretty good movies.
This is due the entanglement of the creators with the movie makers.

FolkersJan 19, 2006 3:12am
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! by Harry Harrison is a good Steampunk book.


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