Steamdrunk
Paul Tobin (pre-steampunk version, before installation of the ocular steam-laser) So… what IS the deal with steampunk, anyway? Why has it become so popular? So many fantasy books incorporate elements...
View ArticleWith great power…
The last few days I’ve been pondering what I could write on this week’s theme of Steampunk, about which I know very little but would like to learn more. Fortunately, a brief dalliance with Google...
View ArticleOk, I admit it, I really want a Steampunk outfit
Bradley P. Beaulieu So why haven’t I gotten one yet? Equal parts laziness and pickiness. I was the same way with my Ren Faire outfit. I didn’t want to get one just to get one and look like a doof. I...
View ArticleSteampunk=Engineers + Goth + Brown
First, I’d like to apologize for this blog being late. I’m a Tuesday person, and this should have been up before now. I have two excuses: first, I had the first reading/signing for my novel FAUSTUS...
View ArticleJust Because it’s Cool…
Steampunk is cool because . . . 5. The birth-pangs of Industrialization sacrificed the lives of millions of workers in the service of the machinery of capitalism; mill workers, coal miners, piece...
View ArticleSteam it Up, Steamy Steamerson
I’m late to the Steampunk party. Not even fashionably late, but couldn’t find anything to wear for ages, changed my outfit twelve times like a teenage girl, got in a fight with my wife over who forget...
View ArticleMusings Upon the Steampunk Æsthetic
Steampunk is, I believe, a reaction to the last 80 years of industrial design. Machines used to be self explanatory, to an extent. You could look at something chugging away, and see how the various...
View ArticleThe Great Unmasking
I said last week that I would reveal my true name today, the writer behind T. Aaron Payton and The Constantine Affliction, and if you’ll dim the lights and start the drumroll and prime the fireworks…...
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