Dreampunk! discussion

Hello, I want to suggest A Tale for the Time Being to be added to the bookshelf. It is a beautiful read, and I think it really it fits the genre. it is not outrageously dreamlike, but deals instead with the subtler infiltration of dreams and reality.

Sounds good! Adding...

I would like to suggest China Mieville's novel 'The Last Days Of New Paris', and Grant Morrisons 'Doom Patrol' comic.

Okay, those look like pretty good fits for the group. Added! I've been meaning to read China Mieville for years now. Any suggestions for a first read?

I would suggest 'Perdidio Street Station' for novels and 'Details' (in his collection 'Looking For Jake' but also anthologised elsewhere) for short fiction.

Is there a list posted I’m not seeing? If not that would be great! My suggestions are The Golem and the Jinni, The Name of the Wind, almost every book by Haruki Murakami, The Year of The Flood, The Dream of Perpetual Motion, Popco and other Scarlett Thomas books, The Windup Girl, several Banan Yoshimoto books, Never Let Me Go, The Gargoyle, The Shadow of the Wind, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, The Shadow of the Wind, The Night Circus, Lovely Bones, Station Eleven, I 2nd A Tale for the Time Being like someone else said.

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Wow, thanks for all those! I'll have to go through them later, busy moving at the moment. Over on the right side of the group page, there is a "Bookshelf" link with a lot of good stuff to read, not all 100% dreampunk, but relevant anyway: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Hi, thought I'd introduce myself here since there's no introduction thread lol. Name's DJ, I'm a fairly avid reader/writer, and I was sifting through a bunch of groups for anything on the fringe that would catch my eye, and so I discovered this small "dreampunk" community. The concept appeals to me a lot--the elements it describes are ones I find myself returning to constantly in literature.

Is this group going to be doing any consistent readings in the future? Right now it just seems like a place to discuss the genre (although there hasn't been activity since March, sadly). I'd love to stick around and have some discussions, turns out I'm more familiar with this genre than I thought.

The Turn of the Screw, I think, would do well to be included on the bookshelf.

D.J. wrote: "Hi, thought I'd introduce myself here since there's no introduction thread lol. Name's DJ, I'm a fairly avid reader/writer, and I was sifting through a bunch of groups for anything on the fringe th..."

Welcome, DJ! The Facebook group I created around the same time is a bit more active than this one so far, but let's change that, shall we? I was just thinking of really focusing in on some "core curriculum" for this fledgling genre, but I don't want to scare people off.

Right now, I'm in the middle of both Dreams Underfoot, by Charles De Lint, and the Sandman series, by Neil Gaiman. These are absolutely required reading if you're interested in dreampunk (which is why it's shameful that it took me so long to get to them). Some people say the term "dreampunk" has to refer to sci-fi, not fantasy, but I don't find that distinction helpful. Anything about dreams is about psychology, hence science. Boom, boundary obliterated.

As for an "Introductions" thread, it doesn't take any special permissions to create one, does it? I hope it's just shyness holding people back, not some technical restriction.

Ah I see, I've been meaning to check out Sandman for a long while. I had started Gaiman's Black Orchid a year or so ago but wasn't able to keep up with it because of school, and ended up returning it to the library :[

Dreams Underfoot sounds promising, I'll do my best to get around to that soon.

Hm, yeah, that's a good argument against those who say dreampunk doesn't have a place in fantasy. Especially considering Alice in Wonderland is, from what I've read, a good proto-example of the genre. And oops, yeah, when I took another look at the "more topics" page, I did see the very tiny "create new topic" option.

Wow! A group that picks up on some vibe I've picked up in a number of books that I really like! I am a Murakami fan through and through.

I'd like to recommend a couple of books.

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin [btw the audio book is INCREDIBLE]
Luminarium by Alex Shakar
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern [Also good in audio]
Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui

Also possibly:
An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim [The summary doesn't do it justice. Dystopian fractured alt future created by a global pandemic and a couple caught in between due to time travel. Quiet, and messed up]
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

I can't believe it took me so long to notice this feature, but... please check out the Dreampunk list I just put together, and add you own votes (up to 100 books).

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...