drupagliassotti @ November 25, 2009 # 2 Comments
Multiple recent surveys suggest that about 60 percent of young Japanese men — in their 20s and early 30s — identify themselves as herbivores. Their Sex and the City is a television show called Otomen, or Girly Guys. The lead character is a martial arts expert, the manliest guy in the whole school. But his [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
My dark-steampunk story “The Manufactory” is now available at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, in an issue with an absolutely gorgeous airship cover that I’m lusting after. I have shamelessly purloined a snippet of the cover as the illo to this post, for which I apologize to artist Myke Amend. Go visit his site to see some [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 15, 2009 # 2 Comments
Wicked Gentlemen Ginn Hale 2007, Blind Eye Books Wicked Gentlemen is a dark and lush gaslamp fantasy set in the Victorianesque city of Crowncross, where the Covenant of Redemption brought Ashmedai, Sariel, and Satanel up from hell to experience baptism and the Great Conversion. Now the demonic offspring of hell’s great princes, the Prodigals, dwell [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I just ran across this interesting Victorian house on wheels over at the Neverwas Times and thought it had a number of interesting steampunk implications … with an emphasis on the political punk. The image called to my mind China Mieveille’s novel Iron Council, in which a perpetual train becomes the base for a nomadic [...]