I understand what he means:

[jrittenhouse]

My brains fry sometimes when people run the same plot / setting over and over again and call it Fresh! New! Alternate History when it’s Done To Freaking Death.  Like, say the American Civil War, or World War II - or in more recent times, taking sub-sub-genres (steampunk, undead stuff, dragons and fantasy stuff) and proclaiming THAT as Alternate

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[seawasp]

My evaluation of the reaction was "Oh god, now I can't get it out of my head" or "now I'm doomed, I must participate".

[jrittenhouse]

That's a fair possibility. I don't hate Steampunk, by the way, but Endless Repetition kind of drains me of the will to Read. I really enjoy Burroughs and Verne, but endless pastiches of same will bore the ever loving stuffing out of me.

[crankyoldgoat]

if I thought you'd read it, I'd send you a copy of one of my novels (one done and been through two editors now).

but, then, afer that, you'd probably want to self terminate.

[jrittenhouse]

If it's something really new, I'll have more patience with it, promise.

[crankyoldgoat]

if you want to see it, drop me an address to my LJ private messages and I'll send you a PDF.

You'll have to decide if it is really new or if I've just found an odd way of playing with the standard cliches.

how often have you seen the heroine also be the villan?

(we're not talking jekyl & hyde, either).

[jrittenhouse]

Oh, my email address is pretty public: jim at memnison dot com

[wcg]

This reinforces my notion that Steampunk is more of a community than it is a genre. It also underscores my choice of only reading one Steampunk novel to date -- The Difference Engine.

[jrittenhouse]

I read that one - long before this all got going - and thought that the concepts were interesting, but that I had a lot of problems with the murkier parts of the plot, and especially the ending.

[jrittenhouse]

Sounds like Mere yelling to me about EAAAERRRWIIIIGSSSS!!

[dalecoz]

That reminds me: I've got to get around to writing up a couple of cyberpunk concepts. Hopefully they won't make your brain explode.

[jrittenhouse]

OMG - well, I trust to your inventive lil' brain. *grits teeth*