Victorian Era Fiction

[Nathan Dodge]

I wasn't sure where to post this, but:

I've been looking into reading some fiction, perhaps adventure, detectives (besides Sherlock Holmes) or even "graphic novels" set in and around the 1880s-1910 era. I've read the classics like Jules Verne and some H.G. Wells, but was wanting to look into some writing that isn't so well known and perhaps written recently. You know, things like The Wild, Wild West TV series and the 1982 Sam Waterston series, Q.E.D.. Your suggestions are eagerly awaited...Feel free to mention movies, too.

EDIT: Isn't this stuff called "Steampunk"?

 

[dhermann1]

Tom Swift!

Find some of the original Tom Swift books. They were written by various individuals under the name of Victor Appleton. I started out on Tom Swift Jr, in 1957, but then discovered the originals. Much fun. This is Steampunk back in the actual day.

 

[flat-top]

Gotham By Gaslight

http://www.amazon.com/Batman-Gaslig...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215438229&sr=1-1

 

[Charlie Noodles]

These two are fairly well known but perhaps 'King Solomon's Mines' and those Fantômas stories.

 

[Smithy]

"War of the Worlds" is a goodie and way ahead of its time.

Anything by Kipling is magic.

H. Rider Haggard obviously did some rip-roaring tales.

"Heart of Darkness" is brilliant

And I think it just misses out the Victorian era, but "The Wind in the Willows" is fantastic, I've loved it since a boy.

 

[Nathan Dodge]

Just a Follow Up...

Here are some titles recommended to me by those in the know:

"Infernal Devices: A Mad Victorian Fantasy" and "Morlock Night" by K. W. Jeter.

"A Nomad of the Time Streams", a trilogy by Michael Moorcock.

"The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

"The Light Ages", by Ian McLeod.

"Lord Tyger"
"The Adventure of the Peerless Peer"
"The Other Log of Phileas Fogg" by Philip Jose Farmer.

 

[ErinKathleen]

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

 

[Nathan Dodge]

HOMUNCULUS and LORD KELVIN'S MACHINE by James P. Blaylock

WHITECHAPEL GODS by S.M. Peters

THE SECRET FILES OF THE DIOGENES CLUB by Kim Newman

THE DIAMOND AGE: OR, A YOUNG LADY'S ILLUSTRATED PRIMER by Neal Stephenson

PERDIDO STREET STATION and THE SCAR and THE IRON COUNCIL by China Mieville

 

[Feng_Li]

It's not strictly Victorian, but it's still set in British India and still powered by steam, so I recommend S.M. Stirlings's The Peshawar Lancers.

Also not Victorian, but delightful: Girl Genius.

 

[Sunny]

Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White kept me up 'til 3 in the morning.

 

[Charlie Noodles]

Also not Victorian, but delightful: Girl Genius.

It might sound silly but I couldn't get passed the heads being out of proportion.

 

[blacklagoon]

Bram Stoker wrote a few good novels.

 

[Spiffy]

Hello!
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-Allen Moore

 

[Pip]

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.


Both excellent reads

Thanks to Spiffy for prompting the thought

 

[Fleur De Guerre]

I enjoyed The Roaring of the Labyrinth by Cleo Gray. It's part murder mystery and part fantasy novel, set in Victorian times.