One of the great things about the Internet is the opportunity to experience shows and movies from around the world. A few years ago, my son Lowell introduced Arlys and me to Japanese animation (anime) and we became serious fans. These shows are not cartoons in the American sense. Many are aimed at adults with […]
The Western genre, so popular in my youth, has fallen out of favor in recent years. It survives mainly in “shoot ’em up” video games like Red Dead Redemption. Yet it has a lasting influence on other genres, especially science fiction. Though despised by sci-fi purists, so-called space westerns have attracted legions of fans. When […]
Cover art by Kyle Dunbar. The e-book edition of Centrifugal Force is one of those we’ll be putting on sale for the Black Friday-Cyber Monday shopping holiday. This was my first book, published in 2012, and was not steampunk, but near-future speculative fiction. In it, I ask the following question: assuming that America continues its […]
Our judgemental dog Hati is here to inform you of an upcoming special on all our e-book titles currently on Amazon, effective from Black Friday 2017 through Cyber Monday. All novels and short stories by Vaughn Treude and/or Holloway will be priced 99 cents for the electronic edition. If you haven’t read these fine works […]
This weekend, Saturday and Sunday I’ll be at the Phoenix Comicon Fan-Fest at the Convention Center at 100 N. 3rd Street in downtown Phoenix. I’ll be bringing copies of our steampunk books Fidelio’s Automata and Professor Ione D. and the Mayan Marvel, as well as my first book Centrifugal Force. I’ll be in the Exhibition […]
Cherie Priest’s 2009 book Boneshaker is an exciting alternate history tale that takes place in nineteenth-century Seattle. In this timeline, the war between the Union and Confederacy continues into the 1880’s. The Pacific Northwest has remained a backwater, and Seattle itself suffered a peculiar cataclysm. Inventor Leviticus Blue creates an “Incredible Bone-shaking Drill Engine,” which […]
The young adult novel Leviathan, published in 2009, is a good entry point for anyone interested in trying out the steampunk genre. It’s a great fit for the steampunk aesthetic, full of gadgets and amazing inventions that never were. The setting is in Europe, a few years past the Victorian Era in the nineteen-teens just […]
