Steampunk Essentials
The following list was compiled from suggestions by members of the Steampunk Forum. It is intended to provide a list of the written and visual materials that the members considered inspiring, amusing or representative of the Victorian Romantic Adventure, or early science fiction. The list also includes are growing number of newer materials that have the look and feel of Steampunk material. We hope these books and films will provide an insight into the genre, and those of us who appreciate it. We welcome suggestions and intend to update this listing periodically.
For ease of access, we have provided links to free e-book versions of the reading materials, where available. We have also provided ISBN references for materials that are currently published in paper form and are not available for download, except for the cases of graphic materials, continuing series and some speciality books.
Film and television listings are referenced to the Internet Movie Database which will provide the reader with detailed information on these productions.
Period Books
Literature Sites Worth Visiting:

 

H.G. Wells:

 

Verne:

 

London:

 

Doyle:

The Sherlock Holmes Canon

 

Wilde:

 

R.S. Stevenson

 

Stoker, Bram

 

Shelley, Mary

 

Kerruish

 

Kipling, R.

 

Haggard, H. Rider

 

Collins, W.

  • The Moonstone

 

Poe, E.

  • His complete works

 

Contemporary Books

 

Baxter, Stephen

  • Anti-Ice ISBN-10: 0061054216 ISBN-13: 978-0061054211

 

Lansdale, Joseph

  • Zeppelins West ISBN-10: 193108100X ISBN-13: 978-1931081009

 

Drake, David / Flint, Eric:

  • The General Series

 

Turtledove, H., and Dreyfuss, R.

  • The Two Georges ISBN-10: 0812544595 ISBN-13: 978-0812544596
  • Guns for the South ISBN-10: 0345413660 ISBN-13: 978-0345413666

 

Judson Theodore

  • Fitzpatrick’s War ISBN-10: 0756401968

 

Stirling, S.M

  • The Peshawar Lancers ISBN-10: 0451458737 ISBN-13: 978-0451458735

 

Forstchen, William

  • The Lost Regiment Series

 

Gibson, W. & Sterling

  • The Difference Engine ISBN-10: 055329461X ISBN-13: 978-0553294613

 

Hambly, Barbara

  • Those Who Hunt by Night ISBN-10: 0345361326 ISBN-13: 978-0345361325
  • Travelling with the Dead ISBN-10: 0345407407 ISBN-13: 978-0345407405

 

Moorcock, M.

  • A Nomad of the Time Stream Series

 

Snicket, L.

  • The Series of Unfortunate Events books

 

Reeve, Philip

"Everything he ever wrote"

 

Newman, K.

  • Anno Dracula ISBN-10: 038072345X ISBN-13: 978-0380723454
  • Bloody Red Baron ISBN-10: 0786702524 ISBN-13: 978-0786702527

 

Melville, C.

  • Perdido St. Station ISBN-10: 0345459407 ISBN-13: 978-0345459404

 

Fraser, G.M.

  • The Flashman Series

 

Harrison, H.

  • A Transatlantic Tunnel Hurrah! ISBN-10: 0812515919 ISBN-13: 978-0812515916

 

Wooding, C.

  • The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray ISBN-10: 0439598516 ISBN-13: 978-0439598514

 

Non Science-Fiction Period Classics

 

Wren, P.C.

  • Beau Geste

 

Mundy, T.

  • King of the Khyber Rifles
  • The Yasmini series, et al

 

Mason

  • The Four Feathers

 

Hope

  • The Prisoner of Zenda

 

Roark

  • The Wake of the Red Witch

 

Crichton

  • The Great Train Robbery

 

Dickens, C.

  • Bleak House

 

Bettman, Otto

  • The Good Old Days – They Were Terrible!

 

Larsen, Eric

  • Issac’s Storm
  • The Devil in the White City
  • Thunderstruck

 

Tuchman, Barbara

  • The Proud Tower: A portrait of the world before the war

 

Lord, W.

  • A Night to Remember

 

Pool, D.

  • What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew ISBN-10: 0671882368

 

James, L.

  • Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India ISBN-10: 0312263821

ISBN-13: 978-0312263829

 

 

Standage, T.

  • The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth

Century 's On-line Pioneers ISBN-10: 0802716040 ISBN-13: 978-0802716040

 

Botting, D.

  • Dr Eckener's Dream Machine ISBN-10: 0805064591 ISBN-13: 978-0805064599

Comics

 

  • League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  • Girl Genius
  • Je Suis Legion
  • Ruse
  • Five Fists of Science
  • Gotham by Gaslight

 Reference

 

  • Basic Steam Locomotive Maintenance - D.C Buell
  • Fundamentals of the Steam Locomotive - 1949
  • Steam Locomotive Inspection - (current 49 CFR 230 gov't regs)
  • The Steam Locomotive - Ralph P. Johnson, M.E.
  • Costs of Running Steam Locomotives - 1921
  • Strength of Materials, Steam Boiler Design - C.B Lindstrom
  • Simple and Compound Steam Engines (1906)
  • Steam Engine Design (1983)
  • Non-condensing high pressure steam engines - S.Roper
  • Ashley Book of Knots
  • Manual of Seamanship for Boys and Seamen of the Royal Navy (1904)
  • Traditions of the Navy - Cedric Windas
  • The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor - Darcy Lever (1885)
  • 1800 Mechanical Movements and Devices – 1911
  • The Secrets of Rusty Things - Michael DeMeng

 

Film

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Television

 

 


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