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popmatters.com - 9/12/2008

The Second Coming of Steampunk: An Interview with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer < Books

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Jason B. Jones It’s fair to say that steampunk is enjoying an odd sort of second coming these days. Originally a literary movement that mashed cyberpunk-style themes with speculative rewritings of Victorian culture, steampunk is now equally a subculture devoted to repurposing mass-market ...

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blog.wired.com - 9/19/2008

Fast Ships, Black Sails

— blog.wired.com — Getting tired of the whole steampunk scene? Getting warmed up to the whole talking like a pirate thing? Ready to try out a new genre? Well, my friend, the fates have arranged upcoming reading material just for you. Just as... (more) Fast Ships, Black Sails

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fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com - 9/14/2008

PRESS RELEASE: Introducing Underland Press

— fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com — Specializing in fiction of the weird, the strange, the odd, and the unsettling, Underland Press is a brand new publishing company from former Dark Horse editor, Victoria Blake . Web 2.0 is doing more than threatening the position of big ... (more) PRESS RELEASE: Introducing Underland Press

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  Awesome! Awesome! Awesome interview, and this looks like an awesome book. It's true that I've only read novel-length steampunk fiction (Jules Verne; China Mieville), so I'm interested in seeing what short-form steampunk fiction even looks like.

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SF Tidbits for 9/12/08
SF Signal — Interviews and Profiles: @SciFi Wire: Warren Hammond (Ex-KOP). @The Living Dead website: Adam-Troy Castro. @Premium Hollywood: Naoko Mori (Torchwood). @PopMatters: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer on The Second Coming of Steampunk. [via Marooned] Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]: @Tor.com: "The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder" by Elizabeth Bear. @Feedbooks: "Rocket Ride! A Short Day's Journey into Space" ...

Recent VanderMeer News and Links
Ecstatic Days — ... a nonfiction book collaboration with a steampunker you might know, and several other interesting projects. As for Weird Tales, Ann recently turned in “the international issue” and she will also be appearing at the special Oct. 15th Weird Tales KGB bar reading in NYC (Jeff Ford, Karen Hueler, etc.) to do introductions and be her cool, wonderful self. Recent Reviews, Interviews, Etc. An interview with Ann and me about Steampunk just ran on PopMatters. Also, my review of Anathem by Stephenson appeared on ...

Lit and Blog News: WisCon Founder Interviewed, Horror Circa 1987, “Genius” Comic
Fantasy Magazine — ... The Jeanne Gomoll Interview, @ Strange Horizons Girl-Wonder.Org Teams with Cerise Magazine for Special Gaming/Comics Joint Issue Vote for New Comic Genius : “Words from the Center, Words from the Edge” Tells You Why Roundup of Recently-Free Fiction @ SF Signal Ellen Datlow’s 1987 Summation of the Horror Scene Posted, from First Year’s Best Collection Andrew Wheeler Thinks io9 Is “the David Itzkoff of the Internet” Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Interviewed at PopMatters on the Second Coming of Steampunk Print ...