Steampunk is edging up into the realm of deriving stories from true Steam settings (i.e. a future derived from an initial Steam realm), and I couldn't be happier, because I've been trying my hand at it, unsuccessfully to date because I'm surprisingly having trouble working within the strict constraints of Victorian society (would've thought that a Liberal Prude such as myself would slip right in). This way, my social vision can more fully take root (women in stronger roles/positions, true racial equality, et cetera).
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:21:47 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are almost done reading the submissions for their second steampunk anthology, which will focus much more on stories from the past decade as opposed to classic tales. And they're noticing some big changes in the make-up of steampunk lit. Writes Jeff VanderMeer: The biggest change is that a subgenre in which very few women wrote now features a plethora of women-as Ann and I had suspected, and stated in various interviews at the time-and thus many more female contributors to this second volume. The greater variety of setting and situation, though, is pretty even across gender. This anthology is also situated at the cusp of much more robust participation in this subgenre internationally and multi-culturally... Indeed, Steampunk Version 2.0 seems to have reached its peak–without that infusion of new perspectives, it's likely to eat itself rather rapidly. [Ecstatic Days] Send an email to Charlie Jane Anders, the author of this post, at charliej...@io9.com. E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514) Database version: 6.14390 http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/
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