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“It’s an incredibly fun book that’s doing a lot. It checks a lot of the boxes that we would normally associate with steampunk. We’ve got the street urchin, the waif, in the character of Creeper. When people were trying to break down ‘punk’ and what it meant, they said, it needs to be somebody who’s pushing against the system. I still think that’s not really what K.W. Jeter meant, and this compound word doesn’t mean those individual things… But there was an expectation that you would have characters like this. You see them in Etiquette and Espionage down on the lower deck, but they’re not the main character; and you see the one character in Leviathan, the young woman masquerading as a boy who comes from a family that is of lower means. But she’s not a Dickensian street urchin or orphan. P Djèlí Clark gives us Creeper the street urchin, and that’s a steampunk type.” Read more...
Mike Perschon, Literary Scholar
