Books Quote by N. K. Jemisin

Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and…

— Paul Di Filippo

With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and…

— Michael Dirda

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

— Anonymous

There was a whole sequence of concept art about a 'Fable' set in a kind of steampunk Victoriana age.

— Peter Molyneux

“Victorian novels come to us, that is, poised between questions of outer and inner, public and private life; they tend to contrast and nally…

— Hilary Schor

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm…

— Jennifer Egan

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe,…

— Philip Reeve

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

— Sal Khan

I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read…

— Joan Didion

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature…

— Eleanor Catton

“Length, I want to suggest, has a peculiar significance for the reader of a Victorian novel and especially so if we are concerned with…

— Ian Gregor