Punk Fiction discussion

Hello, Punks...

We don't have an "official" bookshelf for the group yet, so I'd like to get your opinions on the classic examples of ~punk fiction.

I'm going to add some easy options right now, but let me know what you consider the best of the best, in any of the ~punk sub-categories.

On my profile, I have a list of books I've classified as Steampunk (or similar genres). Should I post a list of those here or what should I do?

No an exhaustive list, but which ones are the cream of your crop?

I'd be particularly interested to hear suggestions for the even-more niche genres that I've listed here - Biopunk, Nanopunk, the various "notpunks", etc...

Yes elf please! I'm so ignorant of the genre and i have maybe read three or four punk books ( I do know that steampunk is what i prefer) and I just want more so help a brother out!

A lot of them I have yet to read, but I can tell they're punk from the descriptions. I've personally been more into the historical stuff as I've only recently decided that Urban Fantasy is not something to fear.

Oh yeah the older the setting the better! Maybe I should read some rock punk lol ok so what book would you recommend?

Well, there's Cold Magic by Kate Elliot. It has its own entire alternate history. It's not an entirely traditional Steampunk setting, but it's still interesting.

There's also The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent. It's kind of a more futuristic punk novel, but it's been too long since I last read it to fully remember which one it was.

Those would be the more interesting ones that I have read. I still need to read most of the ones on my list. I got my mother a couple alternate history books for her birthday, but I have no clue if they're any good.

I'll try them thank you!!!

You're welcome!

I'm gonna be headed to the bookstore in the next day or so and I'm picking up leviathan any comments on that series??

I haven't actually read it, to be honest.

What about you Andrew? What do you think of it? Or anyone in the group

I picked up six-gun tarot instead lol

Cool then.

I've not read Leviathan myself. I've peeped into Six-Gun Tarot on Amazon though, and it looks okay at first glance.

It's good so far. This book opens up and hits the ground running

That's cool. What's it about?

Well it starts off with a boy about to die in the desert with his horse promise. Then he meets a coyote who is the deputy of a town and it has this man hating assassin chick. The sheriff is awesome and can't die. Also this book puts it's own spin on how God created earth and that was pretty neat'o

Cool!

I've added two Dieselpunk novels by Bard Constantine. I highly recommend his fiction. For those of us who are authors, Bard's mastery of retrofuturism is near perfection and his imagery is terrific.

Here are my reviews:
Silent Empire
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Troubleshooter
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Thanks Charles I'll check him out.

Thanks for that, Charles. There's also a dedicated Dieselpunk thread here - fancy posting the links there as well? That way someone looking for Dieselpunk in particular is going to come right to them.

I'm reading BArd's books too and really enjoying them. So far, he's the author I personally prefer :-)

Andrew wrote: "I'm gonna be headed to the bookstore in the next day or so and I'm picking up leviathan any comments on that series??"

I read the first book and loved it. I thought the world was fantastic, and the alternate world setting really clever and well thought out. It's a really fun and easy read, I read through it in a day and a half. The characters felt quite young though, almost more MG than YA. Didn't bother me though.

I got my copy on the kindle and I wished I'd bought a physical copy, the illustrations inside looked really nice but the kindle probably didn't do them justice.

Let me know what you think Andrew once you've read it!

Thanks Celine! But it's going to be a while before I get to it now lol

Yeah I saw that you went for Six-Gun Tarot in the end. I was a little slow on the uptake, or a little fast on the reply button! ;)

What's Six-Gun Tarot like? Worth a read?

Haha let's go with fast on the draw! Yeah it's really good! I was suffering through Stephen kings it and a John Grisham book before this and was dying for a story to spark the old imagination machine. Six-gun tarot does this for me. It has everything it promised plus a good twist near the end! It opens up fast paced then slows down for a bit but it builds into something pretty great

Have to say I loved IT, until the end bit when they're fighting the spider. I found that a bit long, but otherwise I read it pretty quickly, despite the doorstop size.

I might have to check out Six-Gun Tarot then. I have to say the title and cover are intriguing!

Yeah it was great until the end but aren't all of his books like that lol please do read it I wouldn't mind talking about it when it's done. I'm trying to take my time with it though

Cool, will let you know when I get around to it, need to finish my current book first (Tale of Two Cities)

Who is the author?

Dickens. I do love his books although they take me a little more time than modern stuff

I thought that was the one lol that's the great thing about e-books old stuff is free lol

Does anyone else not like to Finnish books sometimes so they can make up there own ending?

Reading a book to the end and then not getting to finish it? That strikes me as the fate I'll suffer forever in hell...

It depends on the book I suppose. Iv only ever done it with Stephen king books. I love his books there a great read through the whole thing but I hate his endings so I Finnish them for myself now so I can keep my love for my hero lol

There hasn't been much activity from you guys lately!!!

I've noticed.

Elf! My good friend!! How are you?

I'm alright, and you?

Good. neck deep in the merkabah rider series new favorite book. What are you reading lately?

Andrew what are you writing right now?

Cool. Reading? Not much. . . school and roleplay are kind of what I've been doing with most of my time. Had to read One Amazing Thing and A Modest Proposal for English.

Oh :/ I can't remember the last time I wasn't reading something lol my girlfriend jokes that I'm gonna read us out of house and home lol

Oh. . .I have a bunch of books myself. Actually, I'm looking into figuring out if there's a way I could get a third full-sized bookcase. I just haven't been reading as much lately.

Is there a steam punk musketeers novel?

There isn't one I know of, but I'm hardly an expert on the field!

Oh I thought you were the leading expert lol

Nope, just a passing enthusiast, me.

A quick googling tells me that the 2011 movie of T3M was a steampunky reimagining of the story, but I've not seen it (Paul W. S. Anderson's not my favourite director really; I quite liked Event Horizon and his first film Shopping wasn't terrible for what it was, but everything else makes my knuckles ache).

I know you've mentioned this before, but I have the weirdest feeling someone else has raised this notion to me too. It could be that this is an idea whose time has come!

Andrew we should collaborate on such a story!