We are pleased to announce the five winners of a signed copy of our steampunk novel Miss Ione D. and the Mayan Marvel. They are Jodi from Georgia, Lindsay from Pennsylvania, Rachel from Oklahoma, Amanda from Virginia and Christine from California. Congratulations to all of you and please leave us a review on Amazon when […]
* Cheers for Count Zeppelin This year marks the 110-year anniversary of aviation pioneer Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin founding his airship company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. This came on the heels of the destruction of one of his early airship prototypes (LZ-4) in a storm when it was moored at Echterdingen. Despite this incident, the German public […]
This 2006 movie by Christopher Nolan, is set in late nineteenth century England. The movie is based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Christopher Priest. It’s not steampunk in the traditional sense, but it appears in this list because of the appearance of Nikola Tesla (played by the late David Bowie) and […]
* A tip of the hat to the great Sam Cooke. If I’m not mistaken, this is my grandfather Otto Treude circa 1904. In those days, moms put all babies in dresses, both male and female. To be successful, works of historical fiction, or in a quasi-historical genre, need to have an air of […]
(With a shout out to Steve Miller.) 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 had a lasting influence on other genres, especially science fiction. Though despised by sci fi purists, […]
This is a friendly reminder to those who haven’t yet signed up for our latest Goodreads giveaway. The prizes are five signed copies of our first Ione D steampunk adventure, “Miss Ione D and the Mayan Marvel.” If you’re not already a member, Arlys and I urge you to go to Goodreads.com and sign up. […]
Probably one of the purest steampunk entries in our list of classics, Steamboy is a 2004 anime film written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, who also wrote and directed Akira, and produced by Sunrise. It takes place in England in the 1860’s. The titular protagonist is a boy named Ray Steam (the Japanese seem fond […]
