{"id":2580,"date":"2010-11-29T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2010-11-29T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T21:43:12","slug":"steampunk-reprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/steampunk-reprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk Reprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/leviathan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2588\" title=\"leviathan\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/leviathan-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/leviathan-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/leviathan.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>On <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/whats-hot\/\">November 18 I discussed<\/a> whether steampunk was the next genre wave and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joffrehorlor.com\/\">Joff&#8217;s<\/a> comment included a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2010\/10\/the-hard-edge-of-empire.html\">link to a blogpost by Charles Stross<\/a>, critiquing the subgenre.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Leviathan<\/strong><\/em> author Scott Westerfeld riposted with the <a href=\"http:\/\/scottwesterfeld.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/genre-cooties\/\">following post<\/a> (interestingly titled &#8220;Genre Cooties!&#8221;):<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221; &#8230; But then I come home to discover that the internet got stupid while I was gone. And not just regular internet stupid about cats or politics, but stupid about steampunk!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Perhaps the prime example is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2010\/10\/the-hard-edge-of-empire.html\">this post<\/a> from the normally incisive Charles Stross, surely the most banal thing he\u2019s ever typed. I mean, pointing out that the Victorian era was imperialistic? Racist? Sexist? Had lousy labor laws and no class mobility? Like no one in the steampunk world was considering this?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> News flash: the online world of steampunk is constantly engaged in exactly those issues &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The rest of Westerfeld&#8217;s post is <a href=\"http:\/\/scottwesterfeld.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/genre-cooties\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think? Are you in Camp Stross or Camp Westerfeld? For steampunk or against? Or bivouacked somewhere in no-man&#8217;s-land?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 18 I discussed whether steampunk was the next genre wave and Joff&#8217;s comment included a link to a blogpost by Charles Stross, critiquing the subgenre. Leviathan author Scott Westerfeld riposted with the following post (interestingly titled &#8220;Genre Cooties!&#8221;): &#8221; &#8230; But then I come home to discover that the internet got stupid while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}