Articles related to "Steampunk"



Elements of Steampunk Style
Steampunk or Steam Punk styles use cogs, gears, copper, brass, dirigibles, penny-farthings, maps, sextants, medical equipment, barometers, telescopes and more!
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Steampunk Home Decorating Ideas
The neo-Victorian steampunk aesthetic can be applied to interior design as well as clothing and accessories. These principles can form the basis of a steampunk home.
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Steampunk Music in the UK
With the UK's first steampunk festival just days away, has the UK finally found its own sound?
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Variations and Sub-Genres of Steampunk
Steampunk itself is an offshoot of cyberpunk. A number of subcategories and alternatives names for steampunk exist, as well as related "-punk" subcultures.
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An Introduction to Steampunk
Steampunk is a sub-genre of historical science fiction and fantasy in which the inventions of the future are created using the technologies of the Victorian era.
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Steampunk Christmas Decoration Ideas
Victorian Christmases were lavish, sumptuous affairs. Use the principles of Victorian Christmas decorating and add a steampunk twist for a uniquely beautiful home.
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Clockwork Heart - Book Review
In a city where people are divided into castes, and those of lower status are forbidden from even looking into the faces of those of higher, the icarii are an anomaly.
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Ideas for Decorating a Victorian Naturalist Room
Victorian naturalist decorating is based on the 18th-century obsession with observing, cataloguing and categorising nature. Steampunk adds retro-futuristic elements.
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Ideas for Decorating a Steampunk Bathroom
Bathrooms are fun places to express a steampunk aesthetic, and the small space lends itself to Victorian crowded home decorating principles.
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DVD Review: The Next Doctor (BBC)
Every year, it's a BBC tradition to do a Doctor Who Christmas special. Last year's "The Next Doctor" has to be one of the best of the lot. Now it's on DVD domestically.
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Havemercy – Debut Novel Book Review
In this novel by two talented newcomers, war, mechanical dragons, and powerful sorcery serve as a backdrop to a beautifully written, intensely character-driven work.
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The Varied Fashions of the Gothic Subculture
Though the gothic subculture sprang largely from musical movements, the goth look is nearly as important, and can be just as variable as the music.
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Review of Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi
Book One: The Stonekeeper by the Daisy Kutter, Flight, and Copper artist is a four-star work of children's literature in graphic novel form.
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The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse
Taking a cue from Douglas Adams, Rankin writes the absurd to illuminate the absurd in our own society through the psychedelic use of living toys and nursery rhymes.
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Review: The Amazing Screw On Head
The Amazing Screw On Head gleefully sends up the steampunk genre, but less-than-stellar animation keeps it from being an unqualified success.
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Doomsday Book
Review of the Science Fiction novel Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis.
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Brent Bukowski's Flow: Sculpture on Ecology
Brent Bukowski's latest mixed media sculptural installation, 'Flow', in his 3-part series tracking human impact with the planet's ecology, details the water cycle.
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Creative Fantasy Campaign & Scenario Creation
One of the most enjoyable things a dungeon master or game master can do is to invent their own game campaigns and scenarios for their respective players to enjoy.
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High Moon a Winning Mix of Westerns, Werewolves
Writer David Gallaher plumbed the depths of history and legend to craft his award-winning web comic, High Moon, mixing lassos and lycanthropy, cowboys and curses.
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Perdido Street Station
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke and British Fantasy Awards, Perdido Street Station burst upon the SF world in 2000, making China Mieville an almost overnight success.
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The Alternative Party
The Alternative Party will gather together 1,000 computer hobbyists to enjoy art, music, workshops and retro computers. The theme of this year's party is steampunk.
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Tobias Buckell Talks
Robert Sawyer calls Tobias Buckell "a dazzling new voice" while Cory Doctorow uses the phrase "an exciting new writer". The first third of his new book Crystal Rain is available for free online at http://www.crystal-rain.com - for the rest you'll have to check at your local bookstore.
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Movie Review: Shane Acker's 9
A scrappy band of sentient rag dolls struggle to survive and to redeem mankind in this animated short turned feature-length film.
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Space Program and Science Fiction
NASA inspired millions to reach for the stars. Many did, and in so doing, changed Science Fiction.
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Asimov's SF September 2008
SF's leading magazine presents William Barton, Mary Rosenblum, Ian Creasey, Will McIntosh, alternate history from Stephen Baxter and a Silurian Tale from Stephen Utley.
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Doctor Who Series 2 Overview
An overview of the second series, starring David Tennant and Billie Piper, which came with massive expectations, that were not always met.
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Interzone 210
Interzone is celebrating it's 25th anniversary - again. And rightly so; they have plenty to celebrate. The magazine has groomed a whole generation of British writers.
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Movie Review: 9
Focus Features/Relativity Media's 9, starring Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer and Jennifer Connelly, is a strong debut from writer/director Shane Acker. 8/10.
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Silverheart
A city at the heart of the Multiverse is familiar territory to Michael Moorcock's readers, but is now the setting to a novel by the creators of Elric and Wraeththu.
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Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum
Child-friendly gallery celebrates key figure in 20th century pop culture, creator of Astro Boy, Kimba, Unico and a host of other characters. Essential stop in Japan!
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Brenda Cooper Interview
In the first part in a series of short interviews with prominent sf/speculative authors, Suite101 recently fired away some questions to writer and futurist Brenda Cooper.
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Dragoncon Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to many of the questions posed by first-time attendees of the huge convention in Atlanta over Labor Day. From "What do people do there?" to "What do I wear?"
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Film Review: 9
Every year the film market is saturated with animated movies. In a genre that is getting somewhat stale, does 9 provide a fresh outlook or just more of the same?
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Movie Review: Edison & Leo
Perfect Circle Productions' Edison & Leo is a spectacular achievement for stop-motion, but isn't a very good film. 6/10.
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Steve Berman
Steve Berman's independent publishing house Lethe Press is fast becoming a leader amongst speculative and GLBT fiction.
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The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction
Solaris Books begins a continuing series of SF anthologies with stories from Stephen Baxter, Peter F. Hamilton, Neal Asher, Eric Brown, Jay Lake, Keith Brooke, and more.
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New Trends in Publishing
Pär South, publisher and founder of Stick Raven Press talks about publishing today. Children's publishing is moving quickly and Stick Raven is poised to move with it.
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Vancouver International Fireworks Safety & Fun
Every summer, Vancouver BC hosts a fabulous International Fireworks Competition, but here are a few suggestions for making the experience a safe and pleasant one.
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South Park | Summer of Sam | Wild Wild West | and More
Reviews of <i>Run Lola Run</i>, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Summer of Sam, This is My Father, and Wild Wild West.
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