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Timeless by Gail Carriger
Someday, when it won't be an issue of spoilers, I'll be returning to this lovely book to do an analysis. But for the time being, I've posted a fanboy's tribute to the end of a great series at Tor.com...
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21 Prognostications for the Parasol Protectorate in the 21st century.
J.M. Frey and I at the Canadian National Steampunk Exhibition, April 2011.Photo by the awesome Lex Machina. The tribute to Gail Carriger continues! Thanks to the lovely J.M. Frey, she of the TARDIS...
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Fan art of Lady Maccon/Alexia Tarabotti
When I was a kid, I drew all the time. I won Most Promising Art Student in Junior High. I nearly did a degree in Fine Arts. And then life wore on, and while I've continued to dabble with my artistic...
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Steampunk Gilgamesh image by D. Emerson Evans
In December of 2011, D. Emerson Evans, a frequent visitor of Steampunk Scholar, sent these sample images of what my Steampunk Gilgamesh could look like as a comic. Evans was attempting to give the work...
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Cabin Control Nemo
Some years back, I saw the Cabin Control Nemo from Mezco toys in a speciality collector's shop. For whatever reason, I was stupid enough not to buy it on the spot. Luckily, I was able to track it down...
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Cover Reveal for The Friday Society
I've never done a cover reveal before, but Adrienne Kress is an up and coming author you need to pay attention to, and because she's Canadian, it likely means you won't. Don't understand that as a...
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Company of the Dead by David Kowalski
I've been a Titanic buff since I was in grade one: I remember the moment I first became aware of the Titanic, working my way through a sticker book of ships. It was back when you still had to lick the...
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Mission Update - Spring 2012
This mission update involves an apology, an explanation, and another apology.The first apology is for missing the past two weeks' posts. I still owe Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett a review of Frank...
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Harper Goff's Nautilus as the Genesis of Steampunk
I know I said I wouldn't be posting, but this section of the dissertation felt like a self-encapsulated post, so I'm sharing it with y'all. Sorry I didn't have time to include a works cited at the...
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The Final Journey
Okay, it's not really the final journey, but it is the last leg of the journey that started this blog. The blog will continue when I'm done writing my dissertation. But while I'm finishing it up, the...
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Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett
I recently tweeted that Paul Guinan and Anina Bennet's Boilerplate and Frank Reade books were among the finest examples of what I call steampunk detournement, and by extension, social retrofuturism....
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Steampunk Beaver vs. Arrogant Man on a Moose
The following are variants of a strip I submitted to the Dominion Dispatch last year. The image was also featured as last year's top bar. I couldn't decide on my favorite punchline, so I made several...
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The Great Canadian Steampunk Heist: Rush and Justin Bieber
Earlier this year, I was interviewed by USA Today for an article on Steampunk which referred to the "horror of the steampunk crowd" at Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber's appropriation of the...
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The Grey Griffins by Derek Benz and J. S. Lewis
Guest Post by Aaron Sikes, Managing Editor, Web for Doctor Fantastique's Show of WondersIn The Brimstone Key – The Clockwork Chronicles: Book 1, authors Derek Benz and J. S. Lewis team up for a fourth...
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Sherlock Holmes: The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B. Hanna
Guest Review by Avigayil Morris, getting us back on track with a look at other Holmes pastiches from Titan Books.I consider myself a Sherlockian, having eagerly devoured the entirety of the Sherlock...
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Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann
Many thanks to Professor Cayne Armand, who continues our run of guest reviews here at the blog, while I recover from the stress of finishing my dissertation and anticipate my oral defence on September...
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Ghosts of War by George Mann
Many thanks to Professor Cayne Armand, who closes this run of guest reviews, while I recover from the stress of finishing my dissertation and anticipate my oral defence on September 17 (the five year...
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Ten Books every Steampunk Scholar needs
I'm done. I'm finished. The mission has been completed. I'll tell you all about it soon enough, but for now, I'd like to share the last thing I wrote in the dissertation.One of the proposed revisions...
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The End of the Mission
I had hoped to be attending Steamcon IV this weekend, but my summer writing went better than I'd anticipated, and as many of you already know, the mission I began in 2008 is over. The end of the...
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Steampunk Poe and Steampunk Frankenstein
Many fans of steampunk are also fans of speculative literature from the Victorian and Edwardian periods as well. This has lead to confusing the two, with people claiming writers like Verne or Wells are...
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