Last weekend, juggling a whole slew of commitments, I careened through space and time, miraculously arriving without a moment to spare at AnomalyCon, Denver’s premiere steampunk and alternate history convention. The other time travelers in attendance sported top hats, bustles, corsets, and aviator goggles, and they all looked fantastic. I had serious costume envy. After […]
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Stories, Steampunk and Surreal
For a long time, I’ve been meaning to read Karen Russell’s short story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. But somehow, every time I reached for it, a novel of some sort got in my way. I love short fiction, but it seems I have to be in a certain mood to […]
Anomaly Con
Despite keeping busy with our little puppy, we managed to attend AnomalyCon in Denver, where I got a chance to a.) pose with a giant TARDIS and b.) meet Nebula nominee Genevieve Valentine, whose dark steampunk circus fantasy Mechanique is exquisitely crafted, brilliantly non-linear, and unbearably happy/sad.
House on the Rock
Most visitors to The House on the Rock fixate on its star attraction, the World’s Largest Carousel, which features prominently in Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods. It’s a pretty awe-inspiring carousel, I have to say. But the really special thing about The House on the Rock is Alex Jordan’s imaginative collection of industrial salvage, which […]
Steampunk
This week, Tachyon Publications released Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s great new anthology of all things steampunk, which has a wealth of Victorian gadgets and devices, as well as fine stories by Jay Lake, Paul Filippo, and Ian R. MacLeod. The editors’ introductions are relatively concise, obviously meant to be descriptive rather than scholarly. For the […]