Steampunk

My Favorite Bit: Beth Cato Talks About THE CLOCKWORK CROWN

June 9, 2015 / Journal, My Favorite Bit / 1 Comment

Today Beth Cato joins us to talk about her new novel, The Clockwork Crown. Here is the publisher’s description: Narrowly surviving assassination and capture, Octavia Leander, a powerful magical healer, is on the run with handsome Alonzo Garrett, the Clockwork Dagger who forfeited his career with the Queen’s secret society of spies and killers—and possibly his […]

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The Kowal Portable Typewriter & Adding Machine #4

July 27, 2012 / Journal

You know how this sort of things goes. My keyboard was failing so I had to install a new one. Then, since the rest of my computer had been modified to be a sort of Art Deco steampunk, I needed to mod the new keyboard. And then it looked so shiny next to the rest

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My steampunk netbook is for sale!

October 3, 2011 / Journal, Writing / 7 Comments

I have an Asus EEE PC which I modded to be steampunk. I wrote swathes of Glamour in Glass on it while riding the subway in NYC and a bunch of other shorts. These days, I don’t need the little thing and it is sadly neglected. It wants to be with a new writer who

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My theory on the appeal of Steampunk as a writer

July 16, 2010 / Journal, Writing / 15 Comments

I have this theory about Steampunk’s appeal from a writer’s standpoint. Or at least, from my standpoint. I think there are two things working in concert. There’s the aspect of beautiful utility. Typewriters and the like used to be functional technology that was also built to be attractive. It gets me out of the black

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Steampunk theory

October 30, 2008 / Journal, Writing / 4 Comments

While I’m travelling… Steampunk. A subcategory of science-fiction or fantasy?Â Discuss.

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Podcast: Steampunk Panel at ReaderCon

August 1, 2008 / Journal / 1 Comment

The Steampunk Panel that I was on with Holly Black, Liz Gorinsky and Sarah Micklem is now available for your listening pleasure at the Steampunk Workshop.

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What Would a Steampunk Gibson Chair Look Like?

July 21, 2008 / Journal / 6 Comments

io9 covered our panel on steampunk design. One of the most interesting panels at this year’s Readercon was an exploration of the steampunk design movement, as it emerged into the mainstream with May’s New York Times Style article. Writer/puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal, YA fantasy novelist Holly Black, Tor editor Liz Gorinsky, and speculative fiction writer

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Page 123, Fifth sentence

June 15, 2008 / Journal / 3 Comments

Jayme Lynn Blaschke has tagged me with the page 123 meme. To participate, you grab the closest book, go to page 123, find the fifth sentence, and blog it. Then tag five people. So, the closest book is Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti, from Juno Books. “The rest of the evening’s guests were trickling into

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Modding my wireless keyboard

May 18, 2008 / Journal / 33 Comments

Sometimes, a girl needs a break from things she has to do and takes it by doing something she wants to do, which uses exactly the same skill sets as the things she’s taking a break from. For instance, I’ve been doing a lot of book binding and work with marbled papers for the show

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Antique Steam Pulley Driven Workshop with Lights

April 29, 2008 / Journal / 11 Comments

While looking for something else entirely, I stumbled upon this ebay auction for aAntique Steam Pulley Driven Workshop with Lights. Good heavens. It’s got a lathe, jig saw, drill… It’s like a steampunk Shopsmith, but it’s real.

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Steam-Bricks

January 30, 2008 / Journal / 3 Comments

In a moment of procrastination, I played Google Imager. One of the images was this one and it had the URL legosteampunk.blogspot.com. Sure enough, it’s a blog devoted to steampunk legos. It looks like it hasn’t been updated since last summer, but there’s some darn cool stuff on it.

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