
The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar
Yesterday we looked at one of the founding steampunk novel; today we turn to a newer work. The Bookman is the first book in a new series by Lavie Tidhar. The book’s official page offers this teaser: When the woman he loves dies at the hands of the mysterious Bookman, young poet Orphan will do...

Homunculus by James P. Blaylock
Homonculus was one of founding books of the steampunk genre, it won the Philip K. Dick Award, and it was one of the books that made me fall in love with the genre many years ago. Here’s Wikipedia’s plot summary: A dirigible with a dead pilot has been passing over Victorian London in a decaying...