drupagliassotti @ March 25, 2009 # One Comment
“Did either of you know she looked into a book? A glass book?” “Not at all,” answered Svenson. “Are you sure?” “She said nothing,” muttered Chang. “But when would she have?” admitted Svenson. [...] “The point is that my glass book was empty,” said Elöise, “its intent being to take my memories. But Miss Temple [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
From the e-journal Neo-Victorian Studies: SPECIAL ISSUE Steampunk, Science, and (Neo)Victorian Technologies Neo-Victorian Studies invites papers and/or abstracts for a 2009 special issue on neo-Victorianism’s engagement with science and new/old technologies, especially as articulated through the genre of Steampunk. As a lifestyle, aesthetic and literary movement, Steampunk can be both the act of modding your [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 17, 2009 # One Comment
The registration for Yaoi-Con 2009 is now open; the con will be held Oct. 30-Nov. 1. The fee is $40 before May 31, and you must be 18 or older to attend. It looks like the hotel information hasn’t been finalized on the site yet, but my assumption is that it will again be in [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The rain beyond the porch roof sang and pattered and sighed. Electric lamps on the dam blazed all night, every night, but here, with the temple and half the scholarium buildings between, the rain stole all the light. Passageways and cloistered yards were filled with falling sparks, while the buildings were only an absence, a [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This has absolutely nothing to do with writing, editing, or steampunk. It just made me laugh.
drupagliassotti @ March 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
My university is on spring break this week, and while grading midterms and preparing The Harrow for its upcoming 12-month hiatus have been my most pressing concerns, I’ve also been able to spend time working on my Clockwork Heart sequel, Obstruction Currents. If you take a look at the counter over on the right side [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
“To the great distress of my only available relative, I have been thrust into the company of two men at the very border — if that — of respectability. This morning we were strangers. In this instant all three of us are without sanctuary. What I want — in fact demand — is that we [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 8, 2009 # No Comment Yet
“What is socially peripheral may be symbolically central.” — Stallybrass & White, Politics and Poetics of Transgression A call to steampunk: 1913, Vienna: “Some ladies appeared as balance sheets, displaying voluptuous debits curving from slender credits. Others came as inflated collateral: faux enhancements amplified the bust or upholstered the posterior. As for the gentlemen, thin [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Iona Baciu sent me a link to the latest issue of EgoPHobia, an online cultural journal published in Romania. Issue 19/20 is dedicated to steampunk as an artistic movement and includes articles (in French, English, and Romanian) about Israeli blacksmith Uri Hofi, steampunk art at Burning Man 2008, French sculptor Pierre Matter — I love [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A few readers have asked me what other books I might recommend that are like Clockwork Heart. The novel that instantly leaps to mind is Paula Volsky’s richly textured The Grand Ellipse (2000). Although it’s primarily gaslamp fantasy, I think fans of steampunk, fantasy, and romance will appreciate it: the main characters possess very Victorian [...]