I agree with Brittney, there should be a way to vote to remove books from a given list. If I'm looking for more books like The Black Lung Captain, or The Horns of Ruin, or Boneshaker, then I'm not going to find this list too helpful. There are a LOT of books out there, the whole goal of lists like this one and of library curation in general is to help potential readers make sense of it all. It's a great book, it won the Nebula for its year and tied for the Hugo, but that doesn't make it steampunk. The technology of the setting is fairly low because it represents a world-after-the-oil-is-gone, but it's still a science fiction setting with extremely high levels of bio-tech and gene manipulation. The Windup Girl is pure Hard Science Fiction. I loved the book, but I don't think it belongs on this list. Stardust catches my eye, that one is a Fantasy, pure and simple, no "steampunk" about it in my opinion. That having been said however, there are still some books I see on this list that shouldn't be here. It doesn't require England, it doesn't require the gears and clockwork or the Victorian (or even Edwardian) era(s). Well, the definition of "Steampunk" that I've always preferred is: "Yesterday's Tomorrow".
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