What Kinds of Dieselpunk Novels Actually Exist Now?

The idea of Dieselpunk very much interests me.  But in point of fact, I have not yet read any dieselpunk novels.  I have instead been doing a little net surfing to see if any might catch my fancy, and so far I am not optimistic.

I know better than to pass judgement on books I have not read.  But since life is short and books are long as the saying goes (and writing my own work takes considerable time because I am not a fast writer) I like to scout things out sometimes just to see if they are likely reads for me.

So far (enlighten me please, if you know better) what I have found discussed on the net in terms of dieselpunk fiction seems to belong to one of the following categories:

-- The What if Hitler had won WWII category
-- The SS/Hitler/Wehrmacht etc. meets Dracula (or some kind of occult force) category
-- The young adult fiction about kids in planes category

Again, I don't want to disparage any of these books.  But the above topics just don't interest me.  Does Dieselpunk go in any other directions?

PRAGMATISM

Pragmatic is
the cynic's word
for practical

Not: how to get from
A to B, but
how to tell yourself
B is impossible

Not:
short term pain
for long term gain
but
short term pain
again and again

Cynic -- you
are bored and tired
You
are boring and tiring

Get
the flying hell
out of our way

SOCIALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE

"Socialism with a human face"?  Of course socialism, if it is genuine, will have a human face.  And its humanity will be much more than skin deep.  But what does this phrase imply?  I think it implies that we can take for granted that capitalism already has a human face.  But capitalism has, in fact, only a human mask.  Capitalism has probably been the most successful of all ideologies in making human masks.

HOWARD ZINN

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic.  It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.  If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.  If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

"And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future.  The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

HOWARD ZINN

THE BULLY

screams bloody murder when you take his club from him.  But that is less because he fears you will turn it against him, as because simply to LOSE his club is to be beaten by it, as far as he is concerned.  In his imagination his club is himself, so he thinks you have taken his very soul.  Perhaps this sort of delusion helps to explain why "the worst are filled with passionate insensity," as Yeats put it.