Blog Archive
October 2009
Sat Oct 31
Thanks To All At Once, and To Each One
by Tor.com
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Jeweled Spider Brooch
by Torie Atkinson
The Steampunk Cold War, Part Four: Alliances of Convenience, or “Autocracy is like democracy if you say it in Russian”
by GD Falksen
Steampunk anime: Steamboy
by Eugene Myers
Fri Oct 30
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Steampunk Keyhole Plate Pendant
by Torie Atkinson
An Interview with Scott Westerfeld on Barking Spiders, Steampunk, and All Things Leviathan
by Joe Monti
LotR re-read: Two Towers IV.5, “The Window on the West”
by Kate Nepveu
Told In The Dark: Ghost Stories
by Helen Stringer
Return to the Written Word
by Jaymee Goh
The Steampunk Cold War, Part Three: The Dreadnought Arms Race, or “Kaiser Wilhelm gets a boat”
by GD Falksen
Wallpaper giveaway: H.M.S. Stubbington
by Irene Gallo
Star Trek Re-Watch: “Catspaw” (Halloween Edition)
by Eugene Myers
Was Poe Steampunk?
by S.J. Chambers
Story Psych: What Makes a Good Story (Part 2)
by Megan Crewe
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 51 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Thu Oct 29
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Jay Lake’s Mainspring and Escapement
by Torie Atkinson
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Sweet Libertine Set of Eyeshadows
by Torie Atkinson
A Moment for My DIY Peers
by Jaymee Goh
Wallpaper giveaway: Gregory Manchess
by Irene Gallo
On Becoming a Hungry Ghost
by Ying Compestine
Just slightly ahead of our time
by Edward M. Lerner
Making the Tor.com Steampunk Month letterpress poster
by Irene Gallo
The Steampunk Cold War, Part Two: The Great Game, or “the British are still in Afghanistan”
by GD Falksen
It’s the Great Pumpkin, And It’s Going to Eat You
by Megan Messinger
How to Convert an Ordinary Suit Coat into a Tail Coat
by Evelyn Kriete
JC Hutchins’s SF novel 7th Son: Descent serialized, Part 3
by Tor.com
Ray Bradbury: “A Theatre Inside My Head”
by Tor.com
Hating Fairyland: Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
by Mari Ness
King of an Endless Sky, Part 12
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Wed Oct 28
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Antique Watchwork Swarovski Crystal Pendant
by Torie Atkinson
Bioshock: Social Sci-Fi in a Steampunk Veneer?
by David Pucik
The Brooklyn Indie Market goes Steampunk
by Genevieve Valentine
The Gathering Storm Launch Party (with pictures!)
by Richard Fife
The Steampunk Cold War, Part One: The Pax Europaea, or “Tommy’s got my bank account, Ivan’s got the bomb”
by GD Falksen
No catastrophes here: William Tenn’s Of Men and Monsters
by Jo Walton
With this Steam-Powered Prosthetic Arm, I Could Be As Strong as… A Normal Person
by Jaymee Goh
Can Dirigibles Slouch Along? Can They Saunter?
by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
Joe Hill’s Locke & Key Volume 2: Head Games
by Mark Graham
Steampunk Blogging: tit-tat for a giveaway!
by Torie Atkinson
Steampunk Blogging, aka Tit-Tat
by GD Falksen
Gogglicious: A Steamcon Report
by Jason Henninger
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 50 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Tue Oct 27
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Stephen Hunt’s The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves
by Torie Atkinson
Steampunk Month Giveaway: $40 Gift Certificate to Retroscope Fashions
by Torie Atkinson
Ghosts to My Rescue
by Ying Compestine
Gathering Storm Release Party
by Megan Messinger
Asimov’s Editorial Staff Talk Magazine Business on The Sofanauts
by Pablo Defendini
Story Psych: A Semi-Scientific Look at What Makes a Good Story
by Megan Crewe
Wallpaper giveaway: Jon Foster and Boneshaker
by Irene Gallo
Art and life and fairytales: Steven Brust’s The Sun the Moon and the Stars
by Jo Walton
Star Trek Re-Watch: “The Doomsday Machine”
by Eugene Myers and Torie Atkinson
The Roundtable of DOO- I mean, of Race and Steampunk
by Jaymee Goh
J.C. Hutchins’ 7th Son: Descent Available for download
by Tor.com
The Eye of the World ebook cover with David Grove
by Irene Gallo
The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread!
by Leigh Butler
Mon Oct 26
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Socks from Sock Dreams!
by Torie Atkinson
The Steampunk Bible Wants You!
by Pablo Defendini
Ancient Rockets: Waxworks
by Kage Baker
Playing Human in Octavia Butler’s Imago
by Erika Nelson
Experiments in Comics with Sydney Padua
by Jaymee Goh
Speed Weed Comes Clean: Steampunk and NCIS: Los Angeles
by Jeff VanderMeer
Spacing out
by Edward M. Lerner
The Identical Twin Paradox: Robert A. Heinlein’s Time For the Stars
by Jo Walton
Steampunk Wardrobe Customizations for the Lazy, the Poor, or the Crafty
by Cherie Priest
That Ghostly Appeal
by Megan Crewe
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 49 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Sun Oct 25
A New Car With Some Old-Fashioned Hardware
by Megan Messinger
Sat Oct 24
Airing China’s Dirty Laundry
by Ying Compestine
Fri Oct 23
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Chet Phillips’ Steampunk Monkey Cards
by Torie Atkinson
New Lit! About Sir Thomas Riley
by Jaymee Goh
The Evil Dead Shall Rise: Blackest Night #3 Review
by Anthony Schiavino
Naked Girls Reading
by Steven Padnick
The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Advance Review
by Leigh Butler
Crafting the Continuum Bracelet: A DIY How-To
by Chrononaut Mercantile
Aunts in Space: Elizabeth Moon’s Serrano series
by Jo Walton
Tor.com Announces the Steampunk Month Photo Contest!
by Liz Gorinsky
Steampunk Month Photo Contest Official Rules
by Tor.com
Review: Astro Boy
by Eugene Myers
Living Poe Girl, Part IV: The Young Girl of the Valley
by S.J. Chambers
The Education of a Speculative Fiction Fan (and Writer)
by Megan Crewe
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 48 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Thu Oct 22
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Kage Baker’s The Women of Nell Gwynne’s
by Torie Atkinson
Pretending to be a Teacher
by Ying Compestine
The future of the Commonwealth: Nevil Shute’s In the Wet
by Jo Walton
Wallpaper giveaway: Thom Tenery
by Irene Gallo
Ray Bradbury: “They’re All Graphic Novels”
by Tor.com
Following Your Inner Chicken: Ozma of Oz
by Mari Ness
King of an Endless Sky, Part 11
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Wed Oct 21
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Modded Book Locket Necklace
by Torie Atkinson
JC Hutchins’ SF novel 7th Son: Descent serialized, Part 2
by Tor.com
Everybody Line Up!: Berít New York
by Jaymee Goh
Steampunk Needs a Shot ofWait for ItRomance
by Heather Massey
Intelligence, algorithms, and anthropomorphism
by Edward M. Lerner
Review: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
by Ava Jarvis
Calling Down the Storm
by Lou Anders
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 47 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Tue Oct 20
Steampunk Month Giveaway: James Blaylock’s The Ebb Tide
by Torie Atkinson
Fury, Absurdity, Sorcery: Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
by Jon Evans
Grave Digging
by Helen Stringer
All Ages Adventure: Adventure Comics #3
by Anthony Schiavino
Stalinism vs champagne at the opera: Constantine Fitzgibbon’s When the Kissing Had To Stop
by Jo Walton
Fahrenheit 451: The Graphic Novel, Part 5 (Excerpt)
by Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton
Steampunk Month Wallpaper Giveaway: Eric Freitas
by Irene Gallo
The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday
by GD Falksen
Mon Oct 19
Halloween craft ideas: cheap and easy like me
by Jason Henninger
An apology to David Malki
by Tor.com
Ancient Rockets: Usher Falls, Twice
by Kage Baker
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Lord of Chaos, Part 31
by Leigh Butler
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Jeweled Windup Bird Ring
by Torie Atkinson
Review: Where the Wild Things Are
by Bridget McGovern
Cog Ex Machina
by Lou Anders
A Game of Thrones Cast (Nearly) Complete!
by Genevieve Valentine
There is Totally Punk in Steampunk
by Jaymee Goh
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 46 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Sun Oct 18
Joe Schreiber’s Death Troopers and No Doors, No Windows—two books in one day
by Mark Graham
Fri Oct 16
Tropes and Mundanity
by Edward M. Lerner
LotR re-read: Two Towers IV.4, “Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit”
by Kate Nepveu
An Ode to Lady Ada
by Jaymee Goh
Two New Magazines in One Day?
by John Klima
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Lord of Chaos, Part 30
by Leigh Butler
New Science Fiction Magazine: Lightspeed
by John Klima
Living Poe Girl, Part III: Metaphysical Motherhood
by S.J. Chambers
The Revolution Will Not be Telegraphed: The Sociopolitical side of Steampunk
by Joshua Pfeiffer
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 45 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Thu Oct 15
Lovelace and Babbage at the Museum of the History of Science
by Sydney Padua
Makers Tile Game, 6×6 iteration now live
by Pablo Defendini
Elvish Songs, Howard Shore, and the Best Creative Process Ever
by Genevieve Valentine
Letters from Abroad: Recommendations
by Keith McGowan
Ray Bradbury Meets Mr. Electrico
by Tor.com
Oz Revolts! – The Marvelous Land of Oz
by Mari Ness
King of an Endless Sky, Part 10
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Wed Oct 14
Who reads cosy catastrophes?
by Jo Walton
How to steam up your old goth wardrobe
by Cherie Priest
History of a Universe
by Anthony Schiavino
Exploring DC’s Wednesday ComicsWrapup
by Lenny Bailes
Nanotech IS distinguishable from magic
by Edward M. Lerner
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Lord of Chaos, Part 29
by Leigh Butler
Living the Vita Steampunk: Whisper Merlot
by Jaymee Goh
The Steampunk Office
by GD Falksen
JC Hutchins’s SF novel 7th Son: Descent serialized, Part 1
by Tor.com
Letters from Abroad: Two More Hugely Influential Fantasy Authors
by Keith McGowan
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 44 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Tue Oct 13
Steampunk has taken over Oxford
by Evelyn Kriete
Steampunk goes viral: Riese the Webseries
by John Ottinger III
A way the world ends: John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes
by Jo Walton
Tor.com’s Steampunk Meetup
by Tor.com
Fahrenheit 451 Index
by Tor.com
Fahrenheit 451: The Graphic Novel, Part 4 (Excerpt)
by Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton
Save Our Zines Day
by John Klima
Drums in the Deep: The Fellowship of the Ring at Radio City
by Genevieve Valentine
An Interview with James Ng
by Jaymee Goh
Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan
by Megan Messinger
Mon Oct 12
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Lord of Chaos, Part 28
by Leigh Butler
A Few of My Favorite Things: Top Steampunk Media
by Joshua Pfeiffer
Negotiating Difference in Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites
by Erika Nelson
Lies on Toast: The Fantasy of Mad Men
by James Enge
Princesses and cats: Kij Johnson’s Fudoki
by Jo Walton
Ancient Rockets: Strong & Silent, Day 5
by Kage Baker
All this stuff totally happened (except for how it didn’t)
by Cherie Priest
The art of Leviathan, Part Two: An interview with Keith Thompson
by Irene Gallo
In An Alternate World, I Could be “Cosmic Goddess”
by Jaymee Goh
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 43 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Sun Oct 11
Steampunk Plot Bunnies for Adoption
by Jaymee Goh
Aliens Among Us: Pauline Gedge’s The Twelfth Transforming
by Pamela Sargent
Fri Oct 9
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Lord of Chaos, Part 27
by Leigh Butler
Lonely and special: Zenna Henderson’s Ingathering
by Jo Walton
Berkeley Breathed’s first novel: Flawed Dogs
by Mark Graham
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker
by Torie Atkinson
Letters from Abroad: Illustrator Yoko Tanaka
by Keith McGowan
No Elitism Please, We’re Steampunk
by Jaymee Goh
Living Poe Girl, Part II: An Alchemical Marriage
by S.J. Chambers
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 42 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Thu Oct 8
Michael Chabon: We’re All Amateurs Here
by Joshua Starr
Steampunk Gaming: Getting in the Mood
by David Pucik
Letters from Abroad: Doctor Who?
by Keith McGowan
Where the saints never tread: Criminal #1 Review
by Anthony Schiavino
The Past (and Future) of Steampunk Music.
by Joshua Pfeiffer
Ray Bradbury’s Lifelong Love Affair With Comics
by Tor.com
Fabulous Journeys: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by Mari Ness
King of an Endless Sky, Part 9
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Wed Oct 7
Steampunk 101
by GD Falksen
Hauntingly Familiar: Haunt #1 Review
by Anthony Schiavino
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Lord of Chaos, Part 26
by Leigh Butler
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Filigree Clockwork Ring
by Torie Atkinson
J.C. Hutchins Interview
by Mur Lafferty
Four Reasons to Watch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
by Genevieve Valentine
No Pitching of the Preciousness: C.J. Cherryh’s Chanur’s Legacy
by Jo Walton
Materializing for the first time
by Edward M. Lerner
Prescription: Zombies
by Cherie Priest
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 41 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Tue Oct 6
Announcing Discounts on the Tor.com Store for Steampunk Month!
by Pablo Defendini
The art of Leviathan, part 1: An interview with Scott Westerfeld
by Irene Gallo
Steampunk as Subculture
by Jaymee Goh
Letters from Abroad: The Golden Compass & The Ruby in the Smoke
by Keith McGowan
Fahrenheit 451: The Graphic Novel, Part 3 (Excerpt)
by Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton
LotR re-read: Two Towers IV.3, “The Black Gate Is Closed”
by Kate Nepveu
Zeppelin City
by Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn
Mon Oct 5
Treachery to species: C.J. Cherryh’s Chanur Trilogy
by Jo Walton
Terry Brooks goes back to Landover
by Mark Graham
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Lord of Chaos, Part 25
by Leigh Butler
What’s the Soundtrack of Steampunk?
by Brian Slattery
Ancient Rockets: Strong & Silent, Day 4
by Kage Baker
A Superb Space Opera: Cecelia Holland’s Floating Worlds
by Pamela Sargent
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 40 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Fri Oct 2
Living Poe Girl, Part I: Objects of Desire
by S.J. Chambers
The Post-Modernity of Steampunk
by Jaymee Goh
Resurrecting Halloween
by Jason Henninger
Across the Stargate Universe
by Megan Messinger
Hello and Good Morning (Technically. Here in West Coast Time)
by Cherie Priest
Dark Agent of Fear
by Anthony Schiavino
Letters from Abroad: READ THAT BOOK, OR ELSE?
by Keith McGowan
And the Antisocial Shall Inherit the Zombieland
by Dayle McClintock
Cory Doctorow’s Makers, Part 39 (of 81)
by Cory Doctorow
Thu Oct 1
Introducing Guest Blogger Keith McGowan
by Megan Messinger
How Stubby, the Tor.com rocket, became the H.M.S. Stubbington
by Irene Gallo
Move Over Hawkwind: Here Comes Age of Misrule!
by Lou Anders
George Mann’s The Affinity Bridge Giveaway!
by Torie Atkinson
Has Anybody Seen the Bridge? George Mann’s The Affinity Bridge
by Lou Anders
The Uneasy Alliance of Light
by Anthony Schiavino
Interview with Steamcon Vice Chair Diana Vick
by Jason Henninger
Steampunk Month on Tor.com
by Liz Gorinsky
King of an Endless Sky, Part 8
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon