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pizzakarin
Posted 2015-03-30 9:18 AM (#9969 - in reply to #8465)
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Location: Austin, Tx		An update on my steampunk odyssey:

* It turns out that I don't mind airships if they are airbeasts (lesson from Leviathan)
* James P Blaylock is a brilliant writer, but not one for me. His books bog down my brain in ways I hadn't thought possible. (lesson from The Digging Leviathan and Homunculus)
* I prefer the themes of autonomy, oppression, and the nature of consciousness to the theme of natural vs mechanical. This is also something I like about transhumanist fiction and why I like Philip K Dick so much, so I think after the challenge I will use that as one of my criteria for determining if a steampunk book is up my alley. (lesson from The Alchemy of Stone)

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