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Book The Steampunk Gazette

Download or read book The Steampunk Gazette written by Thaddeus Tinker and published by B.E.S. Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the 1980s pop culture movement inspired by early Victorian science fiction that developed into an international lifestyle movement, having its own distinctive art, fashion, home decor, music, and social events.

Book The Steampunk Gazette

Download or read book The Steampunk Gazette written by Major Tinker and published by Fil Rouge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a fantasy fiction genre, steampunk has grown into a broad pop culture aesthetic with its own art, fashion, home decor, music and events. This title chronicles this burgeoning international subculture with an illustrated newspaper-style design that reflects the vintage aesthetic. It reports from the steampunk movement and includes photographs.

Book The Steampunk Bible

Download or read book The Steampunk Bible written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wonderful essays on everything steampunk, written by well-known names in the movement who are living steampunk every day” (Wired.com). Steampunk—a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture—is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells through its most recent expression in movies such as Sherlock Holmes. Its adherents celebrate the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated airships and robots. A burgeoning DIY community has brought a distinctive Victorian-fantasy style to their crafts and art. Steampunk evokes a sense of adventure and discovery, and embraces extinct technologies as a way of talking about the future. This ultimate manual will appeal to aficionados and novices alike as author Jeff VanderMeer takes the reader on a wild ride through the clockwork corridors of Steampunk history. Praise for The Steampunk Bible “An informed, informative and beautifully illustrated survey of the subject.” —The Financial Times “The Steampunk Bible is far and away the most intriguing catalog of all things steam yet written.” —The Austin Chronicle

Book Steaming Into a Victorian Future

Download or read book Steaming Into a Victorian Future written by Julie Anne Taddeo and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on--and interrelationship with--popular culture and the wider society.

Book Fashion and Its Multi Cultural Facets

Download or read book Fashion and Its Multi Cultural Facets written by Patricia Hunt-Hurst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. Fashion is multi-faceted in its inclusion of people, places, and products. How people dress and adorn themselves reflect their space, their time, and their innovators. This collection of essays reflects the changing world of fashion from historic topics of change, to new fashion places, to new media outlets for fashion communication, and to critical issues related to comfort, ethics, and innovation. The authors examine familiar names of fashion like Coco Chanel and Tim Walker and introduce us to new names like Ann Lowe, Tommaso Cecchi De’Rossi, and Warwick Freeman. The contributors to this collection represent a variety of places (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America) and share their observations, studies, and experiences from the perspective of their cultural backgrounds and disciplines.

Book The Steampunk Trilogy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Di Filippo
  • Publisher : Thunder's Mouth Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9781568580289
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Steampunk Trilogy written by Paul Di Filippo and published by Thunder's Mouth Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three stories are set in an offbeat and very alternative nineteenth century in which historical and fictional characters blend with hilarious results and include the titles, "Victoria," "Hottentots," and "Walt and Emily." IP.

Book Beyond the Cogs  A Steampunk Anthology

Download or read book Beyond the Cogs A Steampunk Anthology written by Elle Beaumont and published by Crescent Sea Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a world is reimagined... This anthology contains three impeccable steampunk stories. Ranging from the gritty tale of battling a creature who steals the souls of others, to dabbling in the taboo art of imbuing a human soul into an automaton, and even a man venturing back home only to discover he's been demonized. The Soulless Ones by C. Vonzale Lewis The Rogue of Vangard by Nicholas J. Evans Gossamer & Thorns by Elle Beaumont For those who love adventure in new worlds, gritty stories, and heart-wrenching tales, this collection is sure to resonate with you! KEYWORDS: fantasy romance, steampunk fantasy, steampunk romance, steampunk supernatural, paranormal, elle beaumont, c. vonzale lewis, nicholas j. evans, midnight tide publishing, anthologies, steampunk anthologies, steampunk collection, sci-fi fantasy

Book Caitlin R  Kiernan

Download or read book Caitlin R Kiernan written by James Goho and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caitlin R. Kiernan is at the forefront of contemporary gothic, weird and science fiction literature. She has written more than a dozen novels, over 250 short stories, many chapbooks, along with a large number of graphic works. For these Kiernan has won numerous awards. This first full-length look at Kiernan's body of work explores her fictional universe through critical literary lenses to show the depth of her contributions to modern genre literature. A prolific and creative writer, Kiernan's fictions bring to life our fears about the other, the unknown, and the future through stories that range widely across time and space. A sense of dark terror pervades her novels and stories. Yet Kiernan's fictional universe is not disengaged from reality. That is because she works within the long tradition of gothic fiction speaking to the gravest ethical, social and cultural issues. In her dark fiction, Kiernan illustrates the terror of the tyranny of the normal, the oppression of marginalized people, and the pervasive violence of our time. Her dystopian sf propels today's dangerous economic, social, political and environmental tendencies into the future. Kiernan's fiction portrays troubling truths about the current human condition.

Book Steampunk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann VanderMeer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781892391759
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Steampunk written by Ann VanderMeer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents stories about mechanistic golems, infernal machines, airships, alternative histories, other planets, and how the genre has influenced movies, television, comics, and the Internet.

Book Speculative Imperialisms

Download or read book Speculative Imperialisms written by Susana Loza and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times explores the(settler) colonial ideologies underpinning the monstrous imaginings of contemporary popular culture in the Britain and the US. Through a close examination of District 9, Avatar, Doctor Who, Planet of the Apes, and steampunk culture, Susana Loza illuminates the durability of (settler) colonialism and how it operates through two linked yet distinct forms of racial mimicry: monsterization and minstrelsy. Speculative Imperialisms contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that such racial simulations play in a putatively postracial and post-colonial era. It brings together the work on gender masquerade, racial minstrelsy, and postcolonial mimicry and puts it in dialogue with film, media, and cultural studies. This project draws upon the theoretical insights of Stuart Hall, Homi K. Bhabha, Edward Said, Philip Deloria, Michael Rogin, Eric Lott, Charles Mills, Falguni Sheth, Lorenzo Veracini, Adilifu Nama, Isiah Lavender III, Gwendolyn Foster, Marianna Torgovnick, Ann Laura Stoler, Anne McClintock, Eric Greene, Richard Dyer, and Ed Guerrero.

Book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Steampunk Handbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phoebe Darqueling
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-03-05
  • ISBN : 9781734729801
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Steampunk Handbook written by Phoebe Darqueling and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and lecturer Phoebe Darqueling has compiled and updated her best articles from The Steampunk Journal and beyond to surprise, inform, and delight Steampunk and Gaslamp Fantasy fans old and new. Find out more about the history of the genre, the cultural underpinnings that inspire it, and recommendations for books, television, and movies.

Book The Sunken

    Book Details:
  • Author : S C Green
  • Publisher : Grymm & Epic
  • Release : 2017-09-04
  • ISBN : 0473305577
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book The Sunken written by S C Green and published by Grymm & Epic. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “… one of the most original books I’ve ever read.” – I Heart Reading “One of my most enjoyable reads of this year, cracking along at high speed and using intriguing ideas to create a world that’s like a cracked mirror version of our own history.” – BookieMonster In the heart of London lies the Engine Ward, a district forged in coal and steam, where the great Engineering Sects vie for ultimate control of the country. For many, the Ward is a forbidding, desolate place, but for Nicholas Thorne, the Ward is a refuge. Deep within the bowels of the Ward, Nicholas can finally escape his strange affliction – the thoughts of animals that crowd his head. The shadows of his past hang over him, forcing him to remain hidden alongside the Stokers – a forgotten people who toil day and night to keep the boilers of the Ward constantly firing, so that the engine of progress may continue to hum. But rebellion is stirring within the ranks of The Stokers, led by Nicholas' childhood friend, the brilliant engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Forbidden to do the work that brings him his only joy, Brunel innovates in secret, his mind growing ever more twisted by the desire for knowledge. Battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings at the heart of this nightmarish alternative London. As men transform into flesh-eating monsters, Nicholas and Brunel seek a way to restore peace – will London's salvation come from a mechanical army, or on the backs of prehistoric beasts? The Sunken is the first book in the Engine Ward fantasy series by S C Green. For fans of China Mieville and Neal Stephenson who want to explore the clash of religion, technology, and bestiary in a city on the cusp of industrial revolution. metaphysical fantasy, dark fantasy, epic fantasy, grim dark, steampunk, science fiction, alternate history, Victorian, Georgian, London, dragons, dinosaurs, zombies, vampires, dystopian, gothic, historical fantasy

Book Gold Digger  251

Download or read book Gold Digger 251 written by Fred Perry and published by Antarctic Press. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious Hurt-Bot that tried to kill Gina and Brit' with mechanisms of the Death Trap Architect is still out for blood... so he gets himself a vampire. Springing (ex-)Queen Natasha from the "Superior Dungeon" magic penitentiary, he brings her to a realm where she can recharge on life energy and then do his bidding. But Natasha's got the need to feed, and she taps straight in the realm's lifestream, becoming ultra-powered! Gina's mystery mech foe may have bitten off more than he can chew!

Book Gold Digger  250

Download or read book Gold Digger 250 written by Fred Perry and published by Antarctic Press. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Sci-Fi Cosplay Credit Union is throwing a block party, with debt-reduction incentives to those who bring family members to join. Britanny therefore reluctantly invites Gina, despite knowing she'll never hear the end of it. But behind the scenes, someone is paying a visit to the SFCCU chief Ben Palpatine, and he's altering the deal for the sisters. For their sake, they should pray he doesn't alter it any further!

Book The Steampunk Adventures of Langdon St  Ives

Download or read book The Steampunk Adventures of Langdon St Ives written by James P. Blaylock and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this volume lie the complete Steampunk short stories of Professor Langdon St. Ives, Victorian adventurer, written by avowed Steampunk Legend, James P. Blaylock. St. Ives, traveler through time and space and an often misunderstood member of the Explorers Club and the Royal Society, has trodden the foggy London streets and Thames-side alleyways for decades, caught up in near-death adventures in pursuit of nefarious villains and obscure knowledge. In the pages of this chronicle, the intrepid Professor and his stalwart friends face down strange enemies and avert catastrophes that the world scarcely knows exist, finding themselves stalked through the idol-infested jungles of Borneo, set adrift in the starlit reaches of outer space, plunged into the infamous “barrel madness” that descended upon London in the late 18th century, and wandering in a past-and-future age when they stumble upon a time portal in the midst of ancient standing stones in the idyllic Kent countryside. World Fantasy Award winning author James Blaylock, one of the pioneers of the Steampunk genre along with Tim Powers and K.W. Jeter, has written more than 25 novels as well as scores of short stories, essays, and articles. His Steampunk novel Homunculus won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and his short story “The Ape-box Affair,” published in Unearth magazine in 1978, was the first contemporary Steampunk story published in the U.S. His recent Steampunk works include The Aylesford Skull, Beneath London, River’s Edge, and The Gobblin’ Society. Praise for James P. Blaylock: “A singular American fabulist.” —William Gibson “Blaylock is a magician!” —Michael Swanwick “Blaylock’s prose is so rich it literally sings!” —Charles de Lint “Blaylock is better than anyone else at showing us the magic that secretly animates our world...” —Tim Powers “While many recent novels have picked up the steampunk banner, this one fully delivers, offering action, farce, tender relationships, and prose full of genuine Victorian cadence and flavor.” —Publishers Weekly on The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs “St. Ives has to be one of the most fleshed out Victorian characters ever written, and I m sincerely hoping that Blaylock isn t finished with this scientist adventurer. The Aylesford Skull can easily stand alone without any knowledge of Blaylock s previous steampunk stories, but you’ll want to hunt down additional St. Ives tales, I’m for certain.” —Wired.com “Blaylock throws in all the furniture of the genre: derring-do and cliffhangers, a vivid portrayal of Victorian London, a gallery of grotesque characters and the obligatory airship, but the strength of the novel is his rendering of St Ives caught between his love of the chase and his commitment to family.” —The Guardian

Book A Modern Nerd s Guide to Steampunk

Download or read book A Modern Nerd s Guide to Steampunk written by Nicole Horning and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steampunk isn't easy to define. Is it a literary genre, a fashion style, or a way of life? For many people, it's all three. The world of steampunk combines the look of the steam-powered 19th century with the technology of the present or ideas about the future. This fun way to bring history and STEM topics together is popular with people of all ages, and this helpful guide gives young readers essential information about steampunk, from its roots to ways to dress like a steampunk character. Vibrant photographs, detailed graphic organizers, and informative sidebars enhance this exciting reading experience.