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Let’s Try This Again, Shall We? (A Soft Reboot)
It’s wild to me to think that it’s been over 15 years since I started this blog. It feels weird just writing the word ‘blog.’ Who blogs anymore? Everyone who writes is on Substack or Ghost these days....
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Steampunk FAQ (I wrote a book)
It's already been three months since the launch of my first book, Steampunk FAQ. What a ride it's been, from getting a cold-call email from Robert Lecker in December of 2015 asking if I'd be interested...
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A Decade of Steampunk with Steampunk Scholar
It's been 10 years (and one week) since I started this blog. When Steampunk Scholar went live in 2008, I was busy finishing up two term papers: one on Captain Nemo which would go on to become my first...
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Mortal Engines
I saw award-winning fantasy author Tim Powers speak at the first Steamcon steampunk convention in 2009, where he was asked about the then-forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 4, a film adaptation of...
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I Am Writing A BOOK.
When I was in grade four or five, I sent a letter to a writing college. I'd been subscribing to Writer's Digest (no, for real) for a few months, and had been dreaming of going to one of the writing...
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The Rise of Ransom City by Felix Gilman
William Blake once wrote these lines on the power of imagination to perceive the world: "The Sun's Light when he unfolds it / Depends on the Organ that beholds it." Felix Gilman told me that Blake's...
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Clockwork Lives by Kevin J Anderson and Neil Peart
One of my great frustrations in my final year of studying steampunk was that, although I had Rush's Clockwork Angels to keep me company as I finished writing my dissertation, I never got around to...
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Swecon 2014: Steampunk Festivalen
This post is part of Steampunk Hands Around the World, 2016.In 2008, the website Gizmodo announced that "steampunk is dead." This was a bit of a disappointment to me, given that I was just starting my...
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Top 5 Steampunk Reads of 2015
It's back! After a long hiatus, I'm finally reading steampunk again in earnest, motivated primarily by the first book on the list this year. Mark Hodder's Burton and Swinburne series restored my faith...
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The Greyfriar: Book 1 of the Vampire Empire by Clay & Susan Griffith
Here it is, Halloween, the anniversary of when the Steampunk Scholar was born, at Steamcon, one of the first (if not the first) big steampunk conventions in North America. It was two months later that...
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Spotlight on J.M. Frey, author of the forthcoming Skylark Saga!
Reuts Publishing announced this morning that they've signed a three-book deal with science-fiction/fantasy author J.M. Frey (rhymes with Sci-Fi!), for the Skylark Saga, with the first book due out in...
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Mainspring Reconsidered - in memory of Jay Lake
Jay Lake made me famous. Well, as famous as any academic working on steampunk can ever be, but it was when I posted my review of Lake's steampunk novel Mainspring that I saw my visitors shoot from the...
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Murdoch Mysteries (Guest Post)
The following is a guest post by an ardent fan of Murdoch Mysteries who wishes to remain anonymous. Once you read the opening paragraph, you'll know why. As a Canadian citizen, I can run the risk of...
View ArticleAuf Wiedersehn to the Steampunk Scholar
As I mentioned in previous posts, posts I've now deleted, the past few months have been a time of soul-searching for me. Did I want to keep being just the Steampunk Scholar? Steampunk has been very...
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Interviews, Interviews, Museums!
As I hurtle toward the end of this momentous semester, with graduation looming next week and a hydra-like stack of papers to be graded, I take a moment to do what sitcoms used to when they didn't have...
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Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
By the end of writing my dissertation, I had grown to hate steampunk. I couldn't read it, I didn't want to discuss it, and even thinking about it was abhorrent to me. It's apparently a common allergic...
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Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
According to Wikipedia, Apocalyptic Literature refers to that strain of religious revelation in Jewish and Christian scriptures; etymologically, the word apocalypse means "to reveal," and not all...
View ArticleThe New Mission: The Award Winners
The past few months have been a time of soul-searching for me. Did I want to keep being just the Steampunk Scholar? Steampunk has been very good to me: I've never had to want for an academic publishing...
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Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey
The Encyclopedia of Science Fictiondefines Space Opera as "colourful action-adventure stories of interplanetary or interstellar conflict." Space Opera concerns Big Events, action done on a big scale....
View ArticleThe New Mission: The Speculative Scholar
This past week, I finished Seth Grahame-Smith's Unholy Night, an irreverent take on the Gospel of Matthew's Nativity Narrative that was one part Conan the Barbarian, one part Spartacus (the gory sword...
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