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I've done a bit more editing on the steampunk generator. Thoughts?

http://magatsu.net/generators/steampunk-title/index.php

08 a Teapot Most Imperial

54 Emily Dickinson and the Tangled Gentleman

53 Royal Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Calcutta

95 1886: a Blushing Sourcebook

42 Mary Shelley's Amber Conspiracy

76 From 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to New Orleans

15 A Natural History of Cables

86 Her Majesty's Golem

102 My Lord's Vision and the Untitled Protocol

37 Prosthetic Princess

along with the usual specialty erotica titles

04 a Tsarina's Steaming Company

14 The Ministry of Little Kisses

03 a Girl and a Desire

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These are delightful. :3

Thanks! :D

Fagin of the Mountain

Uhhhhhh

Like Heidi, but... not like Heidi, no, not at all like Heidi

Anyway, just dropping by to suggest throwing in all the P G Wodehouse titles (I see Right Ho showing up, but the others not). I see Pellucidar showing up, but not other references to Burroughsiana (Synthetic Men of Mars, a shoo-in). Sword-and-planet stories are not explicitly steampunk, but I think they fit more comfortably here than with SF pulp; e.g., Radio stories, Swifties, etc. etc....

54 Jules Verne and the Celestial Killer

88 Her Infernal Gadget

95 1888: an Occult Anthology

70 Barmaid from San Francisco - Wandered in from 1950's pulp I think

103 The League of Wranglers

53 Crystal Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Kathmandu -- WHAT

30 Aberrant Elements

Yeah, the names and places in here are mostly what I remember off the top of my head, plus a quick google for "steampunk XXX".

Just added a bunch inspired by Wodehouse titles. I think I'll throw Jeeves in there as well.

53 Wild Eliza in New York
119 Carry On, Eliza: a Rummy Novella
42 Eleanor's Bewitching Fantasy
127 The Flaming Scoundrel and Other Romances
110 The Adventures of Aberrant Clifford
110 The Adventures of Automated Arabella
(Could there be a typo: Volcania for Volcanic. Some of the Volcania titles seem right (A Magnetron of Volcania) and others seem like Volcanic is really meant (Volcania Aladdin).)
127 The Improper Sorceress and Other Magazines
129 The Hot Policewomen of 1896
37 Raging Archaeologist
123 Leave It to Edgar Allan Poe: a Satanic Tome
06 a Steamy Memoir
89 His Blushing Antics
128 What Ho, Language?
55 Minnie and the Curious Machine
127 Those Three Prudent Sorceresses
120 Very Good, Edwin: a Bitter Autobiography
46 Inevitable Custard of the Lily Antarctic
55 Elizabeth Browning and the Strange Pneumatic Tube
08 a Grease Most Blazing
76 From Wonderland to Pellucidar
47 Raygun and Caravan
111 Ivor the Djinn (this really cracked me up)
102 My Lord's Cat and the Eastern Top Hat

A few more additional word suggestions:

Locomotive
Case of the... ?
Difference Engine

Governor
Automaton
Newspaperman
Cricketer
Vicar
Librarian
Fortune-hunter
Clubman

Professor Challenger
Burton
Captain Moran
Mlle Blanc-Sec
Charles Babbage
Ada Lovelace

Holiday
Excursion
Fortune
Club (you have League but I haven't seen Club)

Mesopotamia
the Sahara
the Gobi
Kilimanjaro
the Andes
the Amazon
Spitsbergen
Novaya Zembla
Kamchatka
Patagonia
Van Diemen's Land (yes, outdated, but evocative)
Vienna
Zenda
Strelsau
Barsoom
Library

First

Leave It to Jack The Ripper: an Unfortunate Compilation Yes. Yes, it is.

The Case of the Arctic Snow Globe: a Beau Brummel Legend

Anyway, I've put the ones above that weren't in there already in. I'd like to get some more non-European people and generic names in there as well: might as well fight creeping colonialism when possible.

Escape from the Haven

... a story about an adventurist unsatisfied with their privileged, protected life who runs away to enjoy some romantic, exciting violence, dirt and squalor.

subtitled "The Usual Gap Year" XD

Also,
99 What Ho, Etiquette?

70 Victorian from Atlantis ...actually an SGA fanfic.
54 Jack and the Ancient Heir ...this one too.

39 Steam! ...it's the punkiest!
97 Altered! ...Fido will never forgive that duplicitous veterinarian.
40 Collars! ...Fido's master joins the vet as a subject of his ire.

97 Greatest! ... a narcissist's memoir.

92 The Proposal Wars ...This grantwriting season, Dr. Jones will stop at nothing to get his project funded.
92 The Revenge Wars ...a sequel.

87 His Majesty's Child ... slipped in from the romance generator? or is it Mpreg?
86 Her Majesty's Countess ...FF historical romance

29 Sweet Policewomen ...probably porn.
37 Hot Diver ... definitely porn.

23 North Pole in the Tropics ...I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.

07 a Deadly Teapot Uncovering ...oh NO, not the DEADLY TEAPOT!!

54 Jules Verne and the Magnetic Tobacconist ... a lesser-known Monty Python sketch.

91 In the Strait of Drinking ...I'll take 'euphemisms for alcoholism for alcoholism' for $300, Alex.

91 In the Hall of Running ..."I said no running in the hall, Albert!" "But Ma!"

28 The Long Adventures of Prince Albert ...hur hur hur.

What is it about this book that reminds me of detective fiction?
30 Noir Elements

Where do lemurs come from?
68 From Lemuria

28 The Peerless Adventures of Mary Shelley

And now I want to read this!

I got that one too! I thought, indeed her adventures would have been better without peers.

It is running very well now, IMO. Also the mice have stopped popping up.

Thank you! I didn't remove the mice, but I did add a bunch of sciencey/steampunky/Victorianish nouns, so it's got a bigger pool to draw from.

At the (very high) risk of generic Orientalism and bad spelling:

Personages of rank; freestanding and not use them as modifiers (so, the Rani, not Rani Somename) if possible:
Rani
Rajah
Emir
Colonel - I think this is missing from the menu of possible ranks! "The Colonel" is an excellent generic character to add dubious military flair to anything.

Women travellers/adventurers:
Lady Grace Drummond
Lady Hester Stanhope
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Mary Kingsley
Gertrude Bell
Isabella Bird

Pulled from lists and indexes:
ibn Battutah (real traveler)
Hadji Baba (fictional traveler)
Khalil
Abdullah
Ahmed
Bashir
Omar
Haroun
Rashid
Selim
Salma
Zubaida
Ayesha
Fatima
Leila
Iman
Zaynab
Tahirih
Yasmin

Common Chinese surnames, generic:
Zhang or Chang
Li
Wang
Chen
Cho

Drawing names from a much wider cultural pool might be difficult to keep harmonious, rank-wise; e.g. you don't want it to generate Rani Gertrude Bell. I have no background in non-English adventure fiction, which is where these should be sourced…

Thank you!

I have three lists, name.txt and role,txt and role-pl.txt (plural). I've put:

the Rani
the Rajah
the Emir

into the name.txt file, which means they will be treated as if they were personal names and things like "Rani Gertrude Bell" shouldn't show up. Of course we might end up with "Captain the Rani" which may have it's own set of issues, but we'll see what happens and can put code in to fix those cases.

Aaaand we've got the specialty erotica again.

A Steamy Diplomat of Leisure

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