Boy are you lucky. I was going to talk about rats in the barn and the coop today. But it will have to wait. Instead, Charlie Stross posted something worth reading...about the overabundance of Steampunk these days. And while I think Steampunk is fine, there's a wee bit too much of it about. I'm glutted with it. And Charlie makes some really good points about how a lot of the work glamorizes a truly dismal time in history when people died miserably, in poverty, and very young. It wasn't all tea and Empire back then.
So go read Charlie's post with kind thoughts you might not otherwise have had. Because the alternative was :::shudder::: rats.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/10/the-hard-edge-of-empire.html
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So go read Charlie's post with kind thoughts you might not otherwise have had. Because the alternative was :::shudder::: rats.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/10/the-hard-edge-of-empire.html
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I don't read steampunk, mostly because I find it is too . . . er . .. twee. Which is not really the right word, but it's all that comes to mind right now.
I know that Dickens was haunted for the rest of his life by his experiences in the blacking factory as a child worker.
Though I have to say—when the steampunkish-flavoured story captures the times in a more accurate light—glimpses of it in Pullman and Hunt that I've seen—it has a lot to offer.