- What happens in your short story? (Provide a paragraph-long synopsis that quickly tells us the beginning, middle, and end.)
- What are all the elements of Steampunk that are present in your short story? (I.e. list all the different Steampunky things that are present; e.g. Steam-powered robots, a ray gun, an airship, etc.) How did each of these play into the plot?
- In addition to Steampunk, what other genres would this story fall under? (E.g. romance, horror, time travel, comedy, road trip, drama, etc.)
- How interesting were the characters in your story? What did or did not make them interesting? How interesting was the plot? What did or did not make it interesting?
- Overall, would you recommend that others in the class read this story? Why or why not?
Then, after you have made your comment, read the comments left by other class members and reply to at least one of them. In your reply, list any reactions you have to what they wrote or questions you have. Your reply can also be at the bottom of the comments session and be a general reaction to all of the posts where you point out any trends you are seeing.
NOTE: I know that some of these stories have unusual vocabulary. This is often because the people in the Victorian era used words we don't normally use today or because the stories refer to lots of historical events or trends that we are not familiar with. If you struggle to comprehend the reading, please try the following strategies:
- Circle words you don’t know as you read. Guess what they mean based on context and write that next to them. If you can’t guess, then use a dictionary to look it up.
- Next to each paragraph or page, write a very basic summary of what is happening.
- Guess what will happen next and then read to see if that happens.
- Read the questions on the blog that you supposed to answer and read to answer those questions. As you go, mark the answers to questions as you find them (for example, you can circle all the Steampunk elements you see and put a box around all the indications of other Genres that you see.)
- Read outloud in a group of two in an edit bay and help each other. If you do this, both class members who read together need to post a comment below.
My story was about an inventor who built a machine to talk to dead people. Through the machine he meets a knight who asks a favor of him. The favor is to destroy an evil demon. So the inventor builds another machine and captures the demon. The knight then has an epic battle with the evil spirit and destroys it. Happy ending.
ReplyDeleteAll the machines and the fact that aether was the energy source made it very Steam Punk.
It is also an action and has a little bit of the horror genre in it as well.
It was really intense and intriguing. Sense the story was so short though the characters were kinda flat but it was still a good read.
I would recommend it. It is a perfect example of the technology used in the steam punk universe.
The dark class is about an inventor that builds a machine that would materialize his dead parents. His purpose for this was for him to apologize to them for something he had done.
ReplyDeleteDuring this a dead Templar knight asks for his aid, to help him slay an evil man that killed him and many others trapping their souls in limbo.
The machinery in the store is very very steam punk. Gears, coils, they even use aether. The whole 9's.
It is a fantasy adventure story at heart.
With the amount of writing there was the characters were pretty interesting with what little you did know. The story line got pretty hectic when things got going, not what I'm use to but it was interesting.
Despite some cheesey dialogue, I would recommend this story. The imagery of the machines was very vivid and it's a good example of steam punk being able to fit into almost anything.
- Allen
I read "The Atherton Manor" and found it was a great read.
ReplyDeleteIt was about a man named Josepth Caldwell, a scientist, who goes to the Atherton manor. when he gets there he talks with the brother of the owner, a Fredrick Atherton. he then Proceeds to tell Fredrick a bout a wireless telegraph that will, hopefully, contact those In the great beyond. Fredrick then tells him about all the gruesome deaths in the house and tells Josepth to reconsider staying in the manor. he disregards the stories and stays anyway and ends up getting up in deeper then he should, resulting in his untimely death.
One of the most steampunky part of the story is how the wireless telegraph is described such as Dura-core capacitor, electromagnetic coils. The machine play into the plot by letting him slightly communicate with the dead.
this short story would also fall under Horror.
Josepth Caldwell was a rather interesting character because his motivation for building this machine, as well as getting into science, is because wife died which made his reason for making this machine believable. the plot was rather interesting in a weird way, at some points it was rather flat and followed some obvious platitudes but at other point they were really plot twisty.
I would recommend this story to people because even if it was bland in some parts, I found it rather interesting and seemed like a fun idea to play around with.
My story was about a mad scientist who made a man out of dead bodies and gears and steam. He grew up in romania as a normal life until his father died. so they moved and his mother became a whore and he began to hate whores and society in general. but he really wanted to be a scientist. so he began making arms for people who lost there legs in the war but his mom and the other whores always broke them. So when his mom died he started grave digging criminals and useing their bodys to make a killing machine. there was lighting one day and it sparked his creations body to life. He made it into a killing machine and murdered 9 people over 2 years. the body died and he put him in the river.
ReplyDeleteThre are steam powered Humans and Cows and Legs and a de humidifier.
It would also fall under horror
i thought my charactors were interesting because they changed over events and he had alot of feelings and opinions.
Yes it was so easy to read and i really liked it.
How did he make a killing machine? What does it mean that he started grave digging criminals?
DeleteHe got bodies and cut them up and stuck them together with gears and steam powered contraptions. and he told him, i quote "your a beautiful work of art, thats what you are. your the perfect killing machine, and tommorrow night you will demonstate it."
DeleteHe took bodies from the ground where they were buried.
My story is about an inventor who gets invited to work in city/camp. He hears a legend about a local house of horrors and decides to investigate. Captain Samjack, the bad guy, takes him and a woman hostage. The inventor and the woman escape and bring down the evil man and his camp.
ReplyDeleteAll of the machines are either powered by steam or clockwork.
It is a steampunk horror. With tons of action and a little romance.
I liked it. I couldn't put it down. It was a bit on the long side though.
I would recommend it to all of you. It is a great example of steampunk.
It was called Captain Samjack's Terror Emporium.
Deletehow did they bring down the camp?
DeleteHow much romance?
What type of machines did they have?
They had giant robots. There was a love interest, but not too much romance. You'll have to read it yourself to find out how they escaped. That's all, if not more, than I can tell you,
DeleteWhats the moral of your story
DeleteJosh wants us to enter the group discussion so I can't answer your question.
DeleteThe Cutpurse From Mulberry Bend
ReplyDeleteMy story was a Wild Wild West Steampunk, about a small town pocket picketer being approached from a high-educated young female. After saving his life, he teaches her how to pocket a national hero. At the end the girl detonates a bomb she created killing herself and the General.
Isabella (the girl) herself is particularly clocked work from an explosion. They also introduce a ray of weaponry that are rifles and grenade launchers.
This story would also be categorized as action without a doubt, perhaps thriller as well.
I felt Isabella had a strong background which made her more interesting, and you know why she did the things she had done. But for Sheamus (pocket picker) I felt his role was a little down played. He could of introduced more in my opinion.
I'm not sure how many other Wild Wild West stories people are reading but this story has a big twist that you'd never suspect. It also gives off the vibe of questioning "what if" you'll understand when you finish the story
I read Brown Coes Full Steam ahead. Its about a dog named brown working with his owner to find a ghost that died on a ship. I really liked reading everything from the dogs view. The way the dog explained the smell and how happy he would get if he had a steak. Its also cool that the dog is a ghost hunter
ReplyDeleteA steampunk story about a dog sounds like it would be interesting. How did a dog go about ghost hunting?
DeleteSounds like a fun read, did it happen to mention exactly what time in the wild wild west it was set in or was it and ambiguous time period piece? and umm, isn't the term Pickpocket, not pocket picker?
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DeleteToday, the Sun Sets In The East.
ReplyDeleteThis story was about a American cowboy bounty hunter in china, named Humming Bird. He goes after a man named Tiger. He boards an airship and sees a samurai. They become 'silent' friends when they get off of the airship because it's obvious that they have the same destination. They find the man they're looking for, dead and hung up on an x. Robots then come out and attack them. They destroy the robots and Humming bird discovers that the man he was traveling with is actually Tiger. The Tiger that he thought was dead was actually a robot. Tiger agrees to go back with Humming Bird because he will just break out again. They become good friends.
Some of the steampunk elements in this story was the airship, robots, and hummingbird had a mechanical arm.
I wasn't fond of the story or the characters. I didn't feel like they were very dynamic. I wouldn't recommend this story.
Souls of steams (read by me and nalani)
ReplyDeleteOur story had steam punk, fantasy and film noir elements.
Our main character was a middle aged women who was a witch and what we gathered she is a P.I. She is friends with the police force. she has a crash on the main cop.
the elements of steam punk : goggles, top hats, steam powered guns, airships, gears, factories, the clothing, metal beast,
the elements of film noir : cops, P.I, city based, dark and gloomy.
the elements of fantasy : magic, human oras.
Our her way home from the police station she runs into a nine foot metal creature who is robbing a bank. It doesn't confront her it just runs off. while this was going on they have had a few robbers and things being steeled. also a few random and weird murders have come up. Both the same amount. she didn't tell anyone about the creature but for a old family friend. she sends for her friend whose up state. she goes out this time armed and ready. she ends up shooting the mental thing in the head. but before she does that she sees a human ora. she doesn't understand so she puts a spell over it to hide it so her friend can see what hell it is.
when she gets home and is going over her thoughts and drawling a picture of the metal beast, her friend shows up out od nowhere. they talk over the facts and talk about what it really is. its called a gullom. he seems be to be like her but she doesn't ask. he seems to know that shes a witch but doesn't say anything about it. her friend leaves and she shows her crush the creature....he seems to know that she was a witch. he starts to put facts together to figure out what the hell is going on. she examines the body to know how to it works.
so she goes out looking for another and ends up shooting another to find out that the things that were stolen were in that metal thing. then her friend starts acting weird. when she takes her friend to see the bodies of the dead things her cop crush goes missing. her friend ended up being the bad guy and killing her crush and traping his soul in a metal thing. she kills both of them.
please read the story. its a great story.
Sounds super sick, Do you think a film of said story would be something somebody could pull off? Or is it too precious and shouldn't be touched.
Deletesorry if its alittle quick and undetailed its been a few days. sorry
ReplyDeleteSo Of Souls and Steam is amazing! Everyone should read it! It's very Noiry Fantasy Steampunk. The title kind of says it. I can't say anything without spoiling it.. sooo.. JUST GO READ IT.
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