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Steampunk's pleasant, but Mad Victorian Fantasy rules the waves.
— Sep 08, 2019 10:03PM
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K.W. Jeter's absolute hatred of Steampunk is a warning: He never claimed to own Steampunk, but he never wanted it to go into this monstrous direction, and his strange, compelling, horrifying giant robot-like, human-controlled cosplay machines, having sex, is a powerful metaphor for the destruction of his vision by politics.
I love K.W. Jeter, but I understand that I need to help carry on his legacy of dreams.
— Sep 14, 2020 01:29AM
I love K.W. Jeter, but I understand that I need to help carry on his legacy of dreams.
Jeff Mach
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Brilliant Steampunk before Steampunk existed; but now it's time to move on to Villainpunk.
— Mar 30, 2020 11:23PM
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....maybe this is the time to come out and say it:
I still think this is the second-best Steampunk novel ever written, and I think "The Diamond Age", which I'd consider to be the best, is in a genre all its own, not quite competition.
But...
It's impossible to un-read "Fiendish Schemes", or un-know that, somewhere along the line, K.W. Jeter was going to really, really start to hate what Steampunk became.
— Aug 02, 2019 11:33PM
I still think this is the second-best Steampunk novel ever written, and I think "The Diamond Age", which I'd consider to be the best, is in a genre all its own, not quite competition.
But...
It's impossible to un-read "Fiendish Schemes", or un-know that, somewhere along the line, K.W. Jeter was going to really, really start to hate what Steampunk became.
