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All right, ladies and gents. Those of you in the know, please recommend me some decent reading. I'm looking for the following genres, even better if it's mixed: Westerns (stop laughing.), Victorian/Edwardian, and Alternate History/Steampunk. I've already read Lansdale's steampunk stuff, and Gibson's The Difference Engine, so those are out, but if

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China Mieville - The Scar (Alternate world, but very Victorian/Edwardian in tone)

Charles Williams - Many Dimensions (Published in 1931, and I think you'll dig it)

Glen David Gould - Carter Beats The Devil (Fictionalize biography of turn of the century illusionist Carter, and a cracking read)

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell (alternate Napoleonic War-era england, with magic)

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I've heard good things about Mieville. At some point I'll have to pick him up.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell sounds vaguely familiar... Author?

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Hell, doesn't mean I've read 'em. :D