Having focused on steampunk for the last few years, I was astonished that I hadn’t run into this book before. Homunculus was published in 1986 before steampunk became all the rage in the 2000’s. It won the Phillip K. Dick award for best original paperback in 1988. Many steampunk books are modern-style novels that happen […]
When you’ve got lemons, the saying goes, make lemonade. Or if you’ve got a two-hour daily commute, make it enjoyable with audiobooks. Recently I’ve been doing audiobooks at a rate of one every week or so. Once again I found myself on Audible searching for another steampunk novel. Kathleen McClure’s Soldier of Fortune: A […]
Neil Gaiman is one of those people who has earned my profound jealousy. His creative talents have given him success in a multiplicity of areas: fantasy, children’s books, and comics among them. I’ve recently gone on an audiobook kick to occupy my time on my long commute to and from my day job. Gaiman’s Neverwhere […]
Must steampunk be set in some alternate history? Or can it involve peoples and places that never were? Though I prefer the historical sort, this “steampunk fantasy” can be enjoyable as well. It gives the writer more freedom, but with that comes the responsibility to create an interesting and believable world. Will the result be […]
