Which silkpunk novels would you recommend?

[eclipse]

I’ve read the

Grace of Kings, it didn’t blow me away

The tea master and the detective, again didn’t impress me

Green Bone saga , quite like this one

Have got the Black tides of Heaven by J.Y Yang on my Tbr list

[ScarletBea]

*what* is 'silkpunk'??

From some of your names it looks to be books set in an alternative Asia (instead of the usual alternative Europe), is that it?
Seems a strange name to call...

[S. K. Inkslinger]

Lol, silkpunk.  As suggestions goes, I'd tossed you my novel, "When Crows Cawed".

[eclipse]

*what* is 'silkpunk'??

From some of your names it looks to be books set in an alternative Asia (instead of the usual alternative Europe), is that it?
Seems a strange name to call...

 https://io9.gizmodo.com/author-ken-liu-explains-silkpunk-to-us-1717812714/amp

[ScarletBea]

Thanks, I get it now.
And I haven't read any book in this genre.

[cupiscent]

I was going to link that article as well, hah.

Having heard Ken Liu talk a lot at the Melbourne convention this year (where he was a Guest of Honour) I am newly interested in going back to the Grace of Kings / Dandelion Dynasty world. But the books are just so massive! I won't do it for Sanderson, and I'm not sure I can persuade myself to do it for Liu either, even if he's an amazing renaissance man.

I'm very much looking forward to getting into the Tensorate series. So many books, so little time.

Jade Bone feels less "silkpunk" and more... urban fantasy? Gangster wuxia? But hey, labels are mutable, so why not!

[eclipse]

I’m not strict with my labels 

The throne of the five winds looks interesting but 750 page count ....

[cupiscent]

Gosh yes, I'm looking forward to Throne of Five Winds (even at that page count - Priory of the Orange Tree was big too but SO worth it).

Though seeing the comparisons to K Arsenault Rivera in the description of ToFW made me wonder... why not include The Tiger's Daughter et al in silkpunk? And I guess the answer is because Asian as that setting it, the books are clearly fantasy, straight fantasy, no technology/sci-fi blurring. (Ditto Elizabeth Bear's Mongolian / central Asian fantasies.) So the silkpunk needs a bit of that "steampunk but Asian not Victorian" element to it.

[Elfy]

I was going to link that article as well, hah.

Having heard Ken Liu talk a lot at the Melbourne convention this year (where he was a Guest of Honour) I am newly interested in going back to the Grace of Kings / Dandelion Dynasty world. But the books are just so massive! I won't do it for Sanderson, and I'm not sure I can persuade myself to do it for Liu either, even if he's an amazing renaissance man.

I'm very much looking forward to getting into the Tensorate series. So many books, so little time.

Jade Bone feels less "silkpunk" and more... urban fantasy? Gangster wuxia? But hey, labels are mutable, so why not!

I’m reading Jade War the 2nd book of the Green Bone series and it’s closer to how @cupiscent describes it than how ‘silkpunk’ is supposedly described.

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Gosh yes, I'm looking forward to Throne of Five Winds (even at that page count - Priory of the Orange Tree was big too but SO worth it).

I’m loving Throne of Five Winds thank you for mentioning this title , I love the court intrigues and I’m in love with Lady Komor.

There’s no magic  or military battles  in this book so not everyone will like it.

[isos81]

There’s no magic

That ended it up for me

[eclipse]

There’s no magic

That ended it up for me

Thought I best mention that hehe. Who needs complex magic systems over plots and character development  😛

[cupiscent]

I’m loving Throne of Five Winds thank you for mentioning this title , I love the court intrigues and I’m in love with Lady Komor.

There’s no magic  or military battles  in this book so not everyone will like it.

Court intrigues? Awesome ladies? No battles? This sounds so much like my sort of thing that I might just have to go buy it.

[Peat]

I was going to link that article as well, hah.

Having heard Ken Liu talk a lot at the Melbourne convention this year (where he was a Guest of Honour) I am newly interested in going back to the Grace of Kings / Dandelion Dynasty world. But the books are just so massive! I won't do it for Sanderson, and I'm not sure I can persuade myself to do it for Liu either, even if he's an amazing renaissance man.

I'm very much looking forward to getting into the Tensorate series. So many books, so little time.

Jade Bone feels less "silkpunk" and more... urban fantasy? Gangster wuxia? But hey, labels are mutable, so why not!

I’m reading Jade War the 2nd book of the Green Bone series and it’s closer to how @cupiscent describes it than how ‘silkpunk’ is supposedly described.

I will third this - unless Silkpunk is used for generic vaguely Eastern Asian vaguely technological, I don't think Green Bones is.

That said, that's about how well used all other X-punk labels are used, not to mention that most X-punk genres are poorly named to begin with due to being about as punk as a Shell PR meeting, so why the devil not.

Using the loose definition, Jay Kristoff's Stormdancer series is vaguely in the right place. But not that great anyway.

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I’m loving Throne of Five Winds thank you for mentioning this title , I love the court intrigues and I’m in love with Lady Komor.

There’s no magic  or military battles  in this book so not everyone will like it.

Court intrigues? Awesome ladies? No battles? This sounds so much like my sort of thing that I might just have to go buy it.

I see you enjoying this one @cupiscent