In the popular mythology of vampires, these undead creatures are difficult to kill, but it isn’t impossible. A wooden stake through the heart will do it. Sometimes the barest touch of a ray of sunlight will reduce them to ashes or even make them explode. If you want to get Old School, you can immerse [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Steampunk’
Book Review: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar
Genre: Steampunk, Alternate History
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Angry Robot
Publication Date: January 7, 2010
ISBN-10: 0007346581
ISBN-13: 978-0007346585
Author Website: Lavie Tidhar
In The Bookman, up and coming international author Lavie Tidhar weaves a steampunk tale steeped in the literature of the period.
The story follows Orphan, a young lad with the condition his name implies, who works at a little bookshop [...]
Short Film: Heartless, The Story of the Tin Man
Heartless: The Story of the Tinman from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo.
[Via Tor.com]
Book Review: Not Less Than Gods by Kage Baker
Genre: Steampunk
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition
Publication Date: March 16, 2010
ISBN-10: 0765318911
ISBN-13: 978-0765318916
Author Website: Kage Baker
Not Less than Gods was presented to this reviewer as a novel which would easily allow me to learn more about Kage Baker’s greatest creation ,The Company, and at the same time, be easily navigable for any reader not [...]
The Dream of Perpetual Motion…
…is a recently published novel by Dexter Palmer. Though I haven’t read this literary steampunk, it does look interesting, but of even more interest to readers of this blog might be the really awesome art inspired by the book, this cool steampunk screensaver for free download, an interesting backstory to the writing of the novel, [...]
In Which I Define Steampunk
I’m no expert, but apparently I’m knowledgeable enough that Ana and Thea of The Book Smugglers thought that they would ask me to define steampunk as I understand it. I said:
To me, steampunk is a subgenre of alternate history in which technological progress diverged and developed along mechanized lines rather than digital. In steampunk, computers [...]
TV Review: Riese the Series “Fragments”
Having collapsed outside the city wall in episode one, Riese awakens in the town hospital with a server wound. Not to be deterred, Riese climbs out of bed, only to see an odd sight. The entire town is having babies at once! Though Riese says nothing, it is clear that she is uneasy, and that [...]
@Tor.com: Riese the Series
My latest post at Tor.com highlights a new professional webseries beginning November 2 that has a steampunk flair and a well-known cast.
