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Steampunk
Steampunk
Steampunk brings steam-age machinery, speculative technology and historical or alternate settings together. Its imaginative world extends from fiction to art, costume and design.
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February 2013
ReviewBooks
The Affair Of The Chalk Cliffs (A Langdon St. Ives Adventure) by James P. Blaylock (book review).
James P. Blaylock is widely credited with being one of the progenitors of modern literary steampunk. As a sub-genre of Science Fiction, steampunk…
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Retromancer by Robert Rankin (book review)
(pub: Gollancz. 366 page enlarged paperback. Price: £12.99. ISBN: 978-0-575-08497-1 pub: Gollancz. 341 page hardback. Price: £14.99. ISBN: 978-0-575-07872-7) check out websites: www.orionbooks.co.uk…
January 2013
ReviewBooks
The Aylesford Skull (A Langdon St. Ives novel) by James P. Blaylock (book review).
Langdon St. Ives has moved with his family to the tranquil village of Aylesford hoping to leave his past and enemies behind him.…
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Monster of the Sky.
Is Monster of the Sky a follow-up to the most excellent novel The Court of the Air? Nope, but it is kinda steampunk,…
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IBM supercomputer analysis says steampunk is a trend to watch.
You can use supercomputers for many things, but this has to be one of the coolest – by using their supercomputer to monitor…
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The Wheel (of steampunk-y-ness).
This whimsical, visually imaginative short steampunk movie concerns a dutiful young man, fated to maintain a large wheel that balances the entire steampunk…
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Da Vinci’s Demons… TV does Renaissance-punk.
Here’s an interesting looking TV series from the creators of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Da Vinci’s Demons, which recasts Leonardo da Vinci in…
December 2012
ReviewBooks
The Immortality Engine (A Newbury and Hobbes Investigation book 3) by George Mann (book review).
If you hunger for more stories about the indomitable Sherlock Holmes but can’t get a regular fix, you might want try another dynamic…
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Jon Magnificent’s ‘Ray Gun’.
It’s Thursday… is that steampunk music Thursday? Why, yes, so here, for the Victorian Spacemen among you, is our refined listening choice, Jon…
November 2012
ReviewBooks
The Arcanum by Thomas Wheeler (book review).
London, September 1919. The story, ‘The Arcanum’, unfolds with a death. At first it seems to be a normal accident which kills Konstantin…
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Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost (book review)
Imagine that the British Empire never faded but expanded into space taking it’s Victorian attitudes with it. Isambard Smith is a product of…