Remember the short lived TV series "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne" from 2000? That was a pretty cool show from back when SciFi, Showtime and others were always giving us cool new scifi. Steampunk personified...
----- Original Message ----- From: "B Smith" <daikaij...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:41:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade I feel the same way you do. I like the concepts but most of the stuff I've read never grabs me. I really tried to get into Cherie Priest's Boneshaker but something about it didn't click for me. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...> wrote: > > I have yet to get into Steampunk stories, but I am really enjoying the > general concept of it and the clothing. I love the idea of an alternate > reality using such devices. Can you imagine how different the world would be > if we had such things as mechanical televisions? > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Martin Baxter > <truthseeker...@...>wrote: > > > > > > > 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...@... > > 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 > > peakâ€"without that infusion of new perspectives, it's likely to eat itself > > rather rapidly. > > [Ecstatic Days< > > http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2010/02/16/steampunk-reading-almost-done/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ecstaticdays+%28Ecstatic+Days%29&utm_content=Google+Reader > > > > > ] > > > > Send an email to Charlie Jane Anders, the author of this post, at > > charliej...@...<charliej...@...?subject= > > http://io9.com/5473434/how-steampunk-literature-has-changed-in-the-past-decade > > >. > > > > > > > > > > [image: Click here to find out more!]< > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v8/3945/0/0/*/p;44306;0-0;0;23538270;3454-728/90;0/0/0;;%7Eokv=;ptile=3;sz=728x90;%7Eaopt=2/1/ff/0;%7Esscs=? > > > > > > > [image: track] > > > > > > > > > > * > > > > E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514) > > Database version: 6.14390 > > http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ < > > http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ > > > * > > > > ------------------------------ > > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up > > now. < http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >
