Monday, October 26, 2009

History as Fantasy

As a steampunk fan, I adore the caricature map of Europe 1914 in Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and Keith Thompson.

...with Ottoman Empire, one of the Clanker Powers, as a "teetering automaton, collapsing under the weight of a paranoid and ungainly spying network that gazes at Europe through many lenses and spy glasses..."

Priceless.
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