/lit/ - Literature

>>14863179
Elric of Melnibone series

>>11795540

>tfw no novel about orc factory workers fighting for union rights

>>10598180

>orks as proletarians

So basically Arcanum is the Watchmen of fantasy instead of ASOIAF.

>>10442277

My favorite subversion of elves is Acranum's portrayal of elves as a Luddite aristocratic ruling class that got BTFO by the industrial revolution.

I wish someone would write a novel like Arcanum.

>>9250001

I honestly think Arcanum is one of the only fictional works to get steampunk "right."

Tolkien wrote fantasy books that idealized nature and rural life and resisted industrialization.

Arcanum had a setting where a traditional, magical fantasy world had to deal with the emergence of a science fiction/Victorian/industrial society and gets to explore both sides of the issue.

Basically, I think the best use of steampunk is to explore the dichotomies of traditionalism vs. modernism and fantasy vs. science fiction.

Of course, 99.99999999% of all steampunk stories in any medium are terrible. China Mieville's Bas Lag trilogy, Arcanum, and Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle are about the only worthwhile things in the genre.

Arcanum, a video game, takes Tolkien/D&D archetypes and has them deal with real issues of an industrial revolution.

Are there any fantasy books that try to do that using the information age instead?