Kannan Feng, "Deviant Devices"
Sep. 18th, 2012 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsCarnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica is a collection of erotic short stories with steampunk settings.
Kannan Feng's "Deviant Devices" feels more like a set piece from Neal Stephenson's "neo-victorians" than a real steampunk story. All of the pieces in Carnal Machines involve someone being bound, thrusted, entwined, drained, or otherwise intermingled with a piece of hardware large enough to see yet mystical enough to do profound things to the human mind and body, and this one is no exception. It does have the benefit of having an interesting, voyeuristic trope to it, and you're never quite sure who is being pleased here.
Still, it's a good and arousing story that does its job. and at least on the sex part it delivers at a fever pitch for the duration.
Kannan Feng's "Deviant Devices" feels more like a set piece from Neal Stephenson's "neo-victorians" than a real steampunk story. All of the pieces in Carnal Machines involve someone being bound, thrusted, entwined, drained, or otherwise intermingled with a piece of hardware large enough to see yet mystical enough to do profound things to the human mind and body, and this one is no exception. It does have the benefit of having an interesting, voyeuristic trope to it, and you're never quite sure who is being pleased here.
Still, it's a good and arousing story that does its job. and at least on the sex part it delivers at a fever pitch for the duration.
