June Books 14) The Steampunk Bible, by Jeff VanderMeer with S.J. Chambers et al.

[nwhyte]

This is perhaps the single most beautiful book in the Hugo Voter Packet, with lavish illustrations of the very visual subculture which it describes. I must admit it also turned around my own opinion on steampunk - I had a lot of sympathy with Marigold's father on Questionable Content, but VanderMeer and his fellow contributors have convinced me

Comments

[chilperic]

It isn't any more pleasant reading the dead-tree versin, I am afraid. It is a messily produced book, however superficially gorgeous it is...

[nwhyte]

That's a shame. It's not much good having lovely and interesting material if you present it in a way that is actually unpleasant for the reader to experience.