{"id":7243,"date":"2009-10-14T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=7243"},"modified":"2024-05-29T22:40:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T03:40:32","slug":"reverse-engineering-the-steampunk-novel-with-style-cherie-priest-and-boneshaker-geekdad-wired-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2009\/10\/14\/reverse-engineering-the-steampunk-novel-with-style-cherie-priest-and-boneshaker-geekdad-wired-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverse-Engineering the Steampunk Novel with Style: Cherie Priest and Boneshaker | GeekDad | Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been pretty sedentary in my fiction reading, I’ll admit. But I really need some new writers. Turtledove’s latest series haven’t quite grabbed me. Ferrigno ended his Assassin<\/em> series more than a bit predictably. King finished the Dark Tower<\/em> books and nothing since has satisfies. Clancy wrote himself into a corner with the Jack Ryan books years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gibson is into modern mysteries and hasn’t found his old touch. Stephenson is getting more and more involved with his created worlds that he’s frankly getting hard to follow. Stirling’s Emberverse<\/em> is about all I can follow, though I still have my Star Wars books and the latest is – literally – a scream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, along with my GeekDad recommendations and Stacy’s work (hi!) I picked up Boneshaker<\/em> and boy am I glad I did. Here’s the review<\/a> from GeekDad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fun take on alternate history and a well written book to boot. Hell, the ivory pages and brown text just screams “Read me! I’m different!”. Pick it up and thank me later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For a free sneak peek into the steampunk world by the same author, check out Tanglefoot<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been pretty sedentary in my fiction reading, I’ll admit. But I really need some new writers. Turtledove’s latest series haven’t quite grabbed me. Ferrigno ended his Assassin series more than a bit predictably. King finished the Dark Tower books and nothing since has satisfies. Clancy wrote himself into a corner with the Jack Ryan books years ago. Gibson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7244,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243\/revisions\/7244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}