Steampunk Bible

[Graham Russell]

Most of us have seen the steampunk Shakespeare project going on lately. This got me thinking: Could something, like say, the Holy Bible be adapted into a steampunk form? I'd like to know what the community thinks about this, and if anyone would be interested in contributing to this.

[Lia Keyes]

I think anything, within reason, could be reinvented with a Steampunk perspective, but it's unlikely to sell well in America. Why not write original Steampunk stories with a moral purpose? Even use that grandiose Biblical language if you want. That you could do without appearing disrespectful.

[Ettrick]

I didn't think it would be disrespectful if done tastefully.  It could go awry though.  What about focusing just on the parables told.

 

Aesop's Fables?

Mother Goose?

Brothers Grimm?

[Peter Francis]

There's too many people looking for blasphemy when it's really not there for this to be a goer...the novelty you've got is that if you piss off enough people in the USA they'll buy this in droves just so they can burn it :)

[Graham Russell]

I like these ideas. Like you said, if it is done tastefully, it shouldn't be disrespectful. I think that whe writing something like this, the core theme and values should NOT be altered.

Ettrick said:

I didn't think it would be disrespectful if done tastefully.  It could go awry though.  What about focusing just on the parables told.

 

Aesop's Fables?

Mother Goose?

Brothers Grimm?

[Ettrick]

Yeah.  The Bible was published as graphic novel years ago.  It was not well received by many communities even though it was just the Bible in a different format.  "Give me my Bloody King James!" I think I heard one parishioner mutter in the bookstore.

 

That was really marketed to children though.  I don't see the Steampunkish crowd being particularly interested in such a work.  I would love it as a recently branded heretic.

 

But, oh, dear cousin Graham, now you've launched me on a new trajectory.  Why not do *abbreviated* versions of all the classics of literature around the world with a steampunk setting?  I could even see creating a world wherein every character is contemporaneous with all others.  They may not meet, but Sherlock Holmes knows about the monster which reportedly escaped from Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory.  That sort of thing.

[Jason]

It might be fun to see or work on.  I would especially enjoy seeing the parts about Noah's Ark.

[Xeno Gilder]

Personally I think the Bible has enough fiction in it already