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 […]
I first heard of Lantern City at a Phoenix Comicon a few years ago. It was a project supported by actor Bruce Boxleitner that was slated to become a TV series. With all the new and interesting sci-fi shows on various cable and streaming services, I’d expected it would be well on its way, but […]
With the proliferation of steampunk culture, it was inevitable that eventually there would be steampunk music. Of all the self-proclaimed “steampunk” groups (yes, there are several) Steam-Powered Giraffe is certainly the most famous. I haven’t seen them perform live, but I have enjoyed much of their work on-line. Steam-Powered Giraffe definitely has a memorable gimmick. […]
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 […]
The following is the long-awaited continuation of the origin story of the Clockwork Caballero, by Vaughn Treude. See part 1 and part 2, published earlier on Steampunk Desperado. The storm vanished as suddenly as it had appeared. The airship Carolina floated through clear skies high above the Arizona desert, its engines thrumming steadily. The Southern […]
Published in 2014, Owldance is perhaps a bit recent to be called a classic but in this case I’ll make an exception. The American setting of this steampunk novel by David Lee Summers makes it a delightful change from the usual settings in Victorian London, especially since it’s set in my own Southwest. The primary […]
Steampunk is a unique enough genre that we take notice when something fresh and new comes out. One of my recent discoveries is For Steam and Country: Book One of the Adventures of Baron von Monocle by Jon Delarroz. Like our own Ione D series, the book has a young, feisty female protagonist, Zaira von […]
