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Steampunk Scholar: Steampunk in Canada - Guest Post by Lee Ann Farruga
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Jul 1, 2011. Steampunk in Canada - Guest Post by Lee Ann Farruga. I remember the first time I got an email from Lee Ann Farruga, informing me of her website,. The most notable. Second, because it's Canada Day, and Lee Ann just let me have the day off. Happy Canada Day, everyone! Steampunks in Canada are a special group of people. Canadians in general stand out from the rest of the world with our friendly disposition, unique sense of style, and pride in being Canadian. We are a country of adventurers.
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Steampunk Scholar: Best Steampunk
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This list was compiled with two criteria, based on my full list of steampunk books. Most are "Very High" or "High" according to my "steampunk factor" assessment, which simply means that these books have all three. Of the qualities I've identified in steampunk books, film, art, and fashion: technofantasy, neo-Victorianism, and retrofuturism. Effectively though, these are all my faves from my reading in the last five years. The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives. By James P. Blaylock. Other Top Ten Lists:.
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Steampunk Scholar: Secondary Sources
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Scholarly sources - google is adequate for finding the countless web articles written by Joe Steampunk. Blaylock, James P. "James P. Blaylock: Impractical Machines." Locus 691 (64.4, April 2010): 6, 57-58. Bullen, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth Parsons. "Dystopian Visions of Global Capitalism: Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines. And MT. Anderson's Feed. Children's Literature in Education. 201 [229] (2007): 18. Lawrence Phillips, ed. New York: Rodopi, (2007): 61-84. 2:2 (Winter 2009/10): 18-42. Hendrix, Howard. ...
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Steampunk Scholar: A History of Steampunk, by Cory Gross
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Aug 27, 2010. A History of Steampunk, by Cory Gross. The following "guest post" by Cory Gross was originally posted at Cory's site,. Voyages Extraordinaires, and in a different form in. Steampunk Magazine #2. In wanting to establish some distance from the steampunk scene, Cory removed the posts from his blog, which meant that there was no longer a searchable, hypertext version of the document. I know many folks who come by. In which martians successfully decimate the capital of the British Empire until t...
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Steampunk Scholar: December 2013
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Dec 27, 2013. Top 5 Steampunk Reads of 2013. This year was a tough one for steampunk. While precious few steampunk writers continue to produce quality work, from Gail Carriger's manga editions of The Parasol Protectorate. And her new Finishing School. Series, Cherie Priest's ongoing Clockwork Century. Of which I am two books behind - I have no doubt Fiddlehead. Would have been on this list given how much I enjoy Priest's books), and Mark Hodder with Burton and Swinburne. Nemo: Heart of Ice. By Alan Moore...
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Steampunk Scholar: May 2014
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May 7, 2014. 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 angering the evil overlords of International Syndication Deals without reprisal. My anonymous contributor, an American citizen, cannot. I realize in saying this that many of you will assume that I've struck a persona to blog about. Curse of the Lost Pharaoh. How d...
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Steampunk Scholar: Mainspring Reconsidered - in memory of Jay Lake
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Jun 13, 2014. 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 tens to the hundreds, and then over a thousand. Back then, I was still in my old-school book-review blogger mode, and I assessed Mainspring. I felt badly about the post, so I promptly followed up my review of Mainspring. My prof hated it, mostl...
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Steampunk Scholar: October 2013
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Oct 19, 2013. Fall Roundup - Kinslayer, Clockwork Canary, Charmed Vengeance, Sauder Diaries, and Luminous Chaos. Sorry I've been so quiet this past month and a half, everyone. It's been a busy start-of-term, with provincial budget cuts leading to class-size increases, which results in more grading for me! I've been wending my way through several steampunk reads, and I have a few brief words to say about those until I get a full post done up on each:. By Any Other Name: The Sauder Diaries, Book 1. Valtat'...
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Steampunk Scholar: Steampunk Aesthetic
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This post was originally published here, as " Defining Steampunk as an Aesthetic. I've had the idea that steampunk should be viewed as an aesthetic since I went to Steam Powered. In Sunnyvale in fall of '08. It seemed self-evident to me. Jeff Vandermeer confirmed the idea. It appeared I was onto something. Initially, I bought into a number of ideas about steampunk I have since concluded are misconceptions: steampunk is. Science fiction, steampunk is. Alternate history, steampunk isn't. I was under the im...
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Steampunk Scholar: Howl's Moving Castle: Hayao Miyazaki, dir.
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Jun 2, 2010. Howl's Moving Castle: Hayao Miyazaki, dir. I had trouble writing this post, because I can summarize my thoughts on Hayao Miyazaki's animated version of Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle. In one sentence: it's a steampunked fairy tale. The film is proof the steampunk is an aesthetic. That can be applied to just about any narrative. However, since that isn't necessarily as self-evident as I might wish, I'll elaborate. In Fantasy Fiction into Film,. I had wondered the same thing througho...
