Review: Great steampunk story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 21, 2011
The problem with most steampunk is that authors simply add steampunk elements to stories written in other genres.  The trick is to write a story that could not exist outside the steam.Clockwork Fagin is such a story.  Cory Doctorow has paid homage to Dickens and the human consequences of the Industrial Revolution by setting his story in a boiler driven universe and allowing his orphans to have some outrageous fun. I won't spoil the story for anyone, but it's delightful. Rich in clockwork, sly humor and Dickens allusions, Clockwork Fagin is nearly perfect.If the rest of the stories in the Steampunk! anthology are as good as this one, it's one to collect.