Can anyone recommend good Victorian fantasy / steampunk fiction?

[Kain Darkwind]

I'm looking for something along the lines of Penny Dreadful, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Sherlock Holmes, etc. It does not need to (and probably should not) contain team ups of famous literary characters though.

[Aaron Bitman]

It's technically pre-Victorian, taking place mostly from 1810-1811, but I can never pass up the opportunity to mention one of my all-time favorite fantasy novels, The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. I mentioned it on these boards time and time again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again.

I can't even think of anything to say about it, that I haven't already said any of those other 10 times.

[Kain Darkwind]

I dunno, I was thinking about reading it, but you don't really seem that excited.

[John Kretzer]

The Diabolical Ms. Hyde by Viola Carr is really good ( and the sequel is out by the end of this week).

[Imbicatus]

The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher is a very fun fantasy/steampunk mashup. The culture is Victorian, but it's set in a world where the surface is uninhabitable and people live in Spires, which are two mile wide incredibly tall structures built almost two thousand years ago whenever the surface went to hell.

It's got airship pirates, duels, goggles, and etheric crystals powering gauntlet blasters.

[Krensky]

Girl Genius.

The Difference Engine.

[Orthos]

Leviathan, Behemoth, and Goliath by Scott Westerfield.

Bio-airships and bio-weapons-armed Britain versus steampunk Germany in a rewritten World War 1. Also starring Nikola Tesla.

[thejeff]

Read The Anubis Gates, as mentioned above.

You might also be interested in Elizabeth Bear's New Amsterdam books. She's Detective Crown Inspector Abigail Irene Garrett, forensic sorcerer. He's Don Sebastien de Ulloa, known as "the great detective", not known as a vampire. They solve crimes. :)
Set just after the Victorian Era, in world with magic where the British Empire still holds the Colonies.

[SmiloDan]

The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack and its sequels by Mark Hodder feature Richard Burton and Algernon Swinburne in a steampunk London.

Soulless and its sequels by Gail Carriger is a comedy of manners featuring vampires and werewolves acting as secret agents for Queen Victoria in a steampunk London.

Boneshaker and its sequels by Cherie Priest is an alternate history steampunk Civil War on the brink of a zombie apocalypse in a walled off and "abandoned" Seattle.

EDIT:

Shadows over Baker Street is a series of short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes with a Cthuluesque pastiche. "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman is a particular favorite.

[I'm Hiding In Your Closet]

This isn't a book, but there's nothing quite like the computer game Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura for Industrial Revolution D&D. Try to get not just the CD, but the manual - in addition to all the indispensable information about the setting, it closes with a fully-functional banana-nut bread recipe (although in practice, it does need much more sugar than is listed)!

[Krensky]

I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:

This isn't a book, but there's nothing quite like the computer game Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura for Industrial Revolution D&D. Try to get not just the CD, but the manual - in addition to all the indispensable information about the setting, it closes with a fully-functional banana-nut bread recipe (although in practice, it does need much more sugar than is listed)!

And it's about the same price as a paperback!

[Imbicatus]

It's been a few years since I played it, time to give it a spin.