Book Cover Smackdown! ‘Spellbound’ vs. ‘The Heir of Night’ vs. ‘Wild Cards I’
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 [...]
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REVIEW: The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer
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 [...]
Free Fiction: ‘The Hambleton Affair’ by George Mann (A Sir Maurice Newbury Story)
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: The Osiris Ritual by George Mann
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 [...]
TOC: Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded
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 [...]
Trailer: The Marionette Unit
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 [...]
[GUEST POST] Lavie Tidhar Asks ‘What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Steampunk?’
[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 [...]
SF Tidbits for 10/13/09
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: [...]
SF Tidbits for 10/10/09
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: [...]
SF Tidbits for 10/7/09
Interviews and Profiles: Irene Gallo interviews Scott Westerfeld about the art of Leviathan, his latest book, a steampunk adventure. Jon Armstrong interviews David Anthony [...]
SF Tidbits for 10/3/09
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 [...]
SF Tidbits for 10/2/09
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: [...]
SF Tidbits for 9/25/09
David Louis Edelman previews Geosynchron, book 3 of the Jump 225 Trilogy. Interviews and Profiles: @Talking with Tim: Dan Abnett (Triumff). @Whatever: Paolo Bacigalupi, [...]
SF Tidbits for 9/15/09
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 [...]
VIDEO: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Steampunk
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 [...]
SF Tidbits for 9/7/09
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. [...]
SF Tidbits for 9/5/09
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 [...]
SF Tidbits for 9/2/09
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 [...]
SF Tidbits for 8/28/09
Interviews & Profiles: Fantasy Book Critic interviews Gary Gibson (Nova War). The Future Awaits interviews Tobias Buckell. Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden on ebooks, [...]
SF Tidbits for 8/24/09
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 [...]
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