Dieselpunk Reads discussion

Have you read a novel that you would classify as dieselpunk? Please add it to the bookshelf. I've only read a couple and I'd like to read more! I made some subcategories so you can sort the books and tell at a glance a little of what they are about. Let's collect as many as we can and see if we can't build dieselpunk into a genre that is more than steampunk's little-known cousin. :)

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Awesome, thanks for contributing!

I've just added Scott Westerfeld's 'LEVIATHAN' trilogy, which I found wonderful, quite apart from its splendid illustrations. Though also claimed by Steampunk, (like all Dieselpunk!) I think it's Twentieth Century setting and internal combustion make it more Dieselpunk. In any case, I never cease to marvel at the irony that the first true airship only flew in 1901, after Queen Victoria's death, and was not steam powered, so Steampunk's main icon is in fact anachronistic. Hands off our airships, Steampunk!
J. T. Shea

That one is already on my list. I liked the Uglies books, so I expect I'll like this trilogy too.

I've added Kenneth Oppel's 'AIRBORN' YA trilogy. It slightly resembles the 'LEVIATHAN' trilogy, though Canadian author Oppel wrote his earlier and each book tells a separate story with only the main characters carrying on through all three, unlike 'LEVIATHAN'S' single ongoing story.

Oppel has a very good website.

J. T. Shea

There wasn't anything listed as currently reading, so I added a couple of my recently found faves!

Cool! I'll definitely check them out!

Good, Amber. I see it's nearly a YEAR since I even commented on this thread. I have read a number of good Dieselpunk novels since then and will add them soon.

JTS

Hey, I don't understand how can I add books to the 'currently reading'. I'm reading Sophia's book and woudl like to add it.

I think what you do is to go into add books, search for The City Darkens, then you click edit, and open chose shelf and put it on currently reading instead of read. Well, I think this is the way to do it, but maybe I'm wrong.

just found this and without reading not sure how close it fits the 'dieselpunk' moniker, but have a feeling those here would like it even if it turns out to not fit in the definition well.

Factory Town by Jon Bassoff - setting is described as "Factory Town, a post-industrial wasteland of abandoned buildings, crumbling asphalt, deadly characters, hidden secrets and unspeakable depravity" and reviewers are calling it surreal, noir, and horror.

I hope to read it sometime and will review it when I do

Thanks for posting, Byron! The book certainly sounds interesting, even, as you said, if it isn't pure dieselpunk.

I read the Scott Westerfeld trilogy and enjoyed it very much.