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Carregando... Steampunk Cthulhu: Mythos Terror in the Age of Steam (Chaosium Fiction #6054)de Brian M. Sammons (Editor), Glynn Owen Barrass (Editor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A collection of eclectic short stories mainly based around the combination of the Cthulhu Mythos with Sreampunk. Liking both genres, I thought that this was going to be a winner. Indeed there are some classics in here, but then there is some awful padding and some average run of the mill work as well. I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say that it's thrilling and the message I'd give is one of inconsistency. This is a holiday read rather than he start of a brand new sub genre, I feel. ( ) A solid collection of Lovecraftian steampunk. I didn't find anything here that I actively disliked; a few felt rather weak to me, but all of them had elements I enjoyed. Unfortunately, I did feel it could have done with another editing pass, and in particular "Fall of an Empire" was badly in need of proofing. Despite the common association of steampunk with pulp and adventure, there was a good range of genres here: adventure stories, Gothicesque encounters, and disturbing revelations, even a romance. Some focus on action, some on language, some on mood and atmosphere. There's only two whose status in the collection is a bit tenuous, and one of those was good enough that I don't care. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieCall of Cthulhu Fiction (6054)
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." So said H.P. Lovecraft in the first chapter of his most famous story, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926). This is also the perfect introduction to Steampunk Cthulhu, for within these stories mankind has indeed voyaged too far, and scientific innovations have opened terrifying vistas of reality, with insanity and worse as the only reward. The Steampunk genre has always incorporated elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror and alternative history, and certainly the Cthulhu Mythos has not been a stranger to Steampunk. But until now there has never been a Steampunk Cthulhu collection, so here are 18 tales unbound from the tethers of mere airships, goggles, clockwork, and tightly bound corsets; stories of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and alternative realities tainted with the Lovecraftian and the Cthulhu Mythos. Here you will discover Victorian Britain, the Wild West era United States, and many other varied locations filled with anachronistic and sometimes alien technology, airships, submersibles and Babbage engines. But the Victorian era here is not only one of innovation and exploration, but of destruction and dread. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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