I was talking recently with my favorite coder—this would be my son, of course—who is smitten with the subject of…
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Read MoreI here submit to you the essential outline for Victorian science fantasy, a.k.a. steampunk fiction: Rob Higgs’ “Corkscrew”. ‘How, in…
Read MoreVictorians provide steampunk fiction with by far the greatest portion of its characters. This fact is no wonder, as theirs…
Read MoreIn this original steampunk trilogy, KW Jeter implements the propriety of the Victorian gentleman in his main character. George Dower…
Read MoreAlthough thirty-five years old now, the term steampunk remains well beyond the breadth of the average person’s lexicon to the…
Read MoreI attended my first writers conference in 2004. It was a weeklong affair that started on Monday with a battalion…
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