Hope you’re ready! It’s time for another Book Cover Smackdown! Here are the contenders… Your Mission (should you choose to accept it): Tell us which cover [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: It’s both steampunk and Literary. Take that, steampunk naysayers! MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: The story of how mild-mannered Harold became trapped aboard [...]
If you’re not familiar with George Mann’s Newbury and Hobbes stories, you should be. They combine the mystery of Sherlock Holmes and the flavor of steampunk. The [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: Another satisfying outing for Newbury and Hobbes. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Newbury and Hobbes take on cases involving bizarre murders, rogue agents and [...]
Mentioned in passing a few days ago, merits more attention. Jeff VanderMeer has posted the table of contents for his and Ann VanderMeer’s upcoming anthology Steampunk [...]
I’m a fan of the steampunk sub-genre, in all its forms. However, steampunk has been poorly served by the movies that have dabbled in it. Maybe The Marionette Unit will [...]
[Lavie Tidhar is the author of The Bookman, released this week in the UK, and the forthcoming sequel Camera Obscura. Other books include the linked-story collection [...]
Interviews and Profiles: @PopCultureShock: Mike Mignola Talks About 15 Years of Hellboy, B.P.R.D. & More | @Tor.com: Artist Keith Thompson. @Agony Column Podcast: [...]
Jo Walton reviews Zenna Henderson’s Ingathering. Interviews and Profiles: Eoin Colfer on writing a sequel to Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide. @Big Dumb Object: [...]
Interviews and Profiles: Irene Gallo interviews Scott Westerfeld about the art of Leviathan, his latest book, a steampunk adventure. Jon Armstrong interviews David Anthony [...]
Cool news! Scott Westerfeld‘s Midnighters is coming to NBC. The story “revolves around a group of people born at the stroke of midnight who have access to the [...]
Interviews and Profiles: @ A Dribble of Ink: Jesse Bullington (The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart). The Big Idea: Mindy Klasky. @SF Site: Mark Chadbourn. @Omnivoracious: [...]
David Louis Edelman previews Geosynchron, book 3 of the Jump 225 Trilogy. Interviews and Profiles: @Talking with Tim: Dan Abnett (Triumff). @Whatever: Paolo Bacigalupi, [...]
Adam Roberts reviews Sam Merwin, Jr.’s sexy time travel classic, The Time Shifters. Ack! That painful prose reminds me of Pel Torro! Interviews & Profiles:[some [...]
From YouTube: Jake Von Slatt invites us into the alternate universe of Steampunk. As leading figures in the Boston arts community, members of Steampunk combine the power of [...]
The Examiner lists Top 10 SciFi/Fantasy movies coming this Fall. Included is the premise for the new Rambo film, which involves technologically-enhanced soldiers. [...]
Interviews & Profiles: Over at her wonderful blog, Sci-Fi Fan Letter, Jessica Strider interviews Freda Warrington, author of Elfland. The latest episode of The Sofanauts [...]
Interviews & Profiles: John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Malinda Lo, author of Ash. Agony Column podcast-interviews Peter S. Beagle, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael [...]
Interviews & Profiles: Fantasy Book Critic interviews Gary Gibson (Nova War). The Future Awaits interviews Tobias Buckell. Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden on ebooks, [...]
File 770 has photos from Ray Bradbury’s 89th Birthday Party. Michael Moorcock traces the roots of atmospheric steampunk in his Guardian review of The Manual of [...]