Steampunk Anthology review in LA Times.
Category Archives: Steampunk
Gibson in the News
His blog has gone quiet, which is always a good sign! Most likely taking a much needed little vacation, but he usually blogs while “in between” — perhaps Lady Muse have visited him! Anyway, he’s now all doctored up — honorary degree conferred! I like one of the headlines, “Now he’s the Doctor of Cyberspace!” Plus some steampunk musings at an LA Times’ Blog. Huh, I thought the VanderMeers’ Steampunk anthology was out already, pretty sure it’s on my shelf at home having just scored it? I could be wrong, big bag of books from a trip into SF last week! Maybe that was the post-cyberpunk anthology?
Steampunk Fashion
The NY Times has an article on the Steampunk Culture, which alludes to the fashionable sense of the movement. They’re not all scary like the Goths! And I quote, “Steampunk isn’t all dark and spooky. It’s elegant and beautiful.” I’d have to agree with that given the fabulous steampunk devices popping up!
The Definitive Steampunk Anthology
Solaris Press in publishing Extraordinary Engines: The definitive Steampunk Anthology. Extraordinary Engines is a brand new anthology of all-original stories from some of the genre’s foremost writers. Read More about it here.
Steampunk Motorcycles
Wow this is a pretty amazing collection of steampunk motorcycles… I have always wanted a Trike myself.
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Steampunk Interview
One of my favorite blogs is Gizmodo. They have an excellent interview with Rich Nagy who is the “top creator of custom Steampunk objects” around today. Check it out.
Steampunk Magazine
Um, wow, I blew out this whole comment! Oh well, google this!!!
Rayguns and Steampunk
What with the gift giving season fast approaching, I thought it prudent to mention this delicious site I just found via my Google Alerts: Dr Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators and Other Marvelous Contraptions! Just what everyone wants I know — a $700 raygun! Wow! (And yes, the category should have scare quotes around “toys.”) From that site, I was then led to a steampunk site: Brass Goggles. What’s my Google Alert alerting me to you ask?
The Age of Steampunk
Found via BoingBoing, an article in The Boston Globe with a gallery of steampunk objects. An interesting observation is part of the article wherein it talks about the preservation of objects, taking modern day appliances and rendering them as steampunk items to increase the desire to save them, to make them museum pieces. Interesting. I have often noted to anyone that will listen that nobody will wait hours in a line to see a hundred-year-old Web site (ok ok, who knows, that’ll be in about 85 years?) — but people often wait in long, long lines to view texts like James Joyce’s Ulysses on Bloomsday. I got to see Ben Franklin’s folio of his hand written Autobiography at the Huntington last year….
A Fistful of Steampunk!
Interesting site, A Fistful of Games, has a write-up of playing a steampunk board game, or a modified rule set of another game to encompass steampunk elements. Or something. OK. I didn’t really read it all the way through, but I intend to. So I’m bloggin it here to remind me!
Anywho — we’ve really enjoyed playing the full-fledged WoW boardgame, though I don’t recall ever really finishing a game. We just don’t have the full weekend to play like we did in our youth with D&D. But I like the “quick” start up time of these very advanced and complicated board games and am facinated by them. Not sure my kids are up for playing them, but in a few more years, perhaps, perhaps.