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"What is steampunk?" asks the jacket blurb header, and it's a reasonable question that has kept plenty of fans and pundits busy since the style's recent renaissance. Like any other genre definition, it's going to be contentious (has anyone actually settled on a satisfactory definition of science ...
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Adam Whitehead over at The Wertzone has an
impressive list (with cover art in most cases) of...
54 upcoming 2009 releases. A great many on his list are books I either own and enjoyed or I want to read in the near future. However, there were a few books ...
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Steampunk edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer - SF Books
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Steampunk edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer - “What is steampunk?” asks the jacket blurb header, and it’s a reasonable question that has kept plenty of fans and pundits busy since the style’s recent renaissance. Like any other …
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... There’s also just now this review of Steampunk on SF Site, which Paul Raven liked conditionally, having issues with the variety contained therein. I have no issues with those issues (in fact, there’s some interesting stuff there for further discussion)–negative, positive, and indifferent reviews only bother me when they have factual errors in them or ascribe motivations to the participants that are false or speculative–but we did not include the Blaylock just to include it, as he indicates, and the comment I made on the SH comments thread does ...
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A reader reacts to Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon thb | Audible ] — Not so much with the liking of the book. SF Site reviews Steampunk — With some good words for my story "The God-Clown Is Near." Don't miss the caption contest here: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]. Usual rules apply. bravado111 on writing and selling a novel for the first time Where Police Work Has ...
Friday No-photo Blogging: Resolution
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... Well rust my bucket - the Steampunk review is finally up at SF Site! Crivens! ...
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Torque Control —
... and Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Elizabeth Hand reviews Best American Fantasy 2008, Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca and The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
Andy Duncan on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Paul Kincaid on Multireal by David Louis Edelman
Jonathan McCalmont reviews Flood by Stephen Baxter
Paul Raven on the VanderMeer Steampunk anthology
Graham Sleight on Other Worlds, Better ...
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