I wanted to like this steampunky-themed book of short-stories, but it tried too hard at cleverness and told essentially uninteresting stories. The text does not deliver on what the fascinating illustrations promise. I gave it 78 pages, 18 beyond my minimum 50, and gave it up.
5/6 - This book is wacky. And I mean WACKY with a capital W!! It's like a 'choose your own adventure' books crossed with a non-fiction full of footnotes. Every paragraph or so I'm flicking to the contents to find the page number for the correct section that further describes the occult item that was...
Rating: 4/5Summary: Overview of the Steampunk culture with a look at its history and current (pre-2011) state.Review: Grab a cup of tea while enjoying The Steampunk Bible, a beautifully illustrated guide to the Steampunk culture. The art was chosen wonderfully (except for one image that is located o...
The Steampunk Bible is a small book but ambitious and packed with information which truly fit its name. I think I became more than a newbie reading this. Densely illustrated with a lot of side notes and more side references to pique you along but sometimes the content wash off me. There was a preval...
I don't really see the point to this short. Was this written for a certain theme? Without knowing it, the short falls flat because there's seemingly no plot, very little in the way of characterisation, no world building, no message... it's a little bit of dialogue, then 'oh, that thing I saw earlier...
I'm not plugged into the Steampunk community enough to know if this is a good overview of things or not, but from an outsider's perspective it certainly seems to be. VenderMeer covers the history of Steampunk, art, literature, fashion, music, creations, cons, film and TV. The pictures are absolut...
This was interesting. I liked how it's work of fiction, but read like it was based on fact. I got this mainly for the Carrie Vaughn and Cherie Priest stories and (in my biased opinion) they were also the best.
How do you describe a book so strange and unique it defies genre? The Cabinet of Curiosities is like no other book. Probably closest to steampunk, that doesn't even begin to describe it. The illegitimate child of Monty Python and Umberto Eco. Full of contributions from dozens of artists and auth...
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