[Continuing this blog's lockdown theme of ‘books I would actually write, if only I had the time’, here are four SFnalisations of Dickens that, quite genuinely, it would be a pleasure to make real: the full Dickensian prose treatment, gnarly Dickensian characters and all the tastiest steampunky trimmings.]
A steampunk David Copperplate?
ReplyDeleteJules Verne's "David Copper Ville-de-Futur".
DeleteThat I ought to do this occured to me, only belatedly. Only goes to show.
ReplyDeleteIn absolute seriousness: I would one hundred percent support a kickstarter or indiegogo to raise funds for you to write one or more of these books, and I bet a lot of other people would too.
ReplyDeleteI'm semi-seriously considering it, I can tell you.
DeleteOliver Twisted Metal?
ReplyDeleteNicholas Nickel-plated?
ReplyDeleteDombey and Sun?
A Tale of Two Planets?
Good! Though I might go with A Tale of Two ETs myself ...
DeleteYou don't have to choose--you could write a book which contains the opening chapters of each of the above titles. A SteamDickens "best of" sampler, so to speak.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the Dickens steampunk equivalent of Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler...