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Various and Fun: Heiresses of Russ 2012, edited by Connie Wilkins and Steve...
The second installment of Lethe Press’s newest series venture, Heiresses of Russ, has recently been released. As with the previous volume, the year’s guest editor (this time around, Connie Wilkins) has...
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James Ng Art Prints Sweepstakes!
In this sweepstakes we have the artwork of James Ng! James Ng (pronounced Ing) is a fast rising young artist currently residing in Hong Kong. Recently out of art school, James already has so many...
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Crystal Herbalists & Zombie-Fighting Exorcists: The Newest Work of James Ng
Four years ago, James Ng was a digital artist with an interesting project that caught the eye of the steampunk community. His “Imperial Steamworks” series recreated an alternate world where the Qing...
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The Feel-Good Movie of the Season: Disney’s Looper
We can’t get enough Looper here at Tor.com. We love it! We hate it! And now there’s a Disney version. More accurately, the folks at Screen Junkies have made a trailer for a Disney version. And it’s...
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Clockwork Angels Signed Sweepstakes!
We’ve got a copy of Kevin J. Anderson’s Clockwork Angels for one of you! An incredible collaboration between Anderson and the band Rush, Clockwork Angels tells a steampunk story like no other – all you...
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Rockin’ That Steampunk
In a world lit only by fireLong train of flares under piercing stars.I stand watching the steamliners roll by.That’s the first stanza of “Caravan,” the opening track of Clockwork Angels, the new album...
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The Secret of Miles on Revolution “No Quarter”
Welcome back post-apoc fans to this week’s recap of NBC’s Revolution! In this week’s episode, we discover just how the militia came to be the way it is, how Mark Pellegrino (Lost, Supernatural, Grimm)...
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Think of the Children! Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist is a chilling tale of adolescence and loneliness, of anxiety and celebrity, of misplaced idolatry, cultish devotion, and unmitigated obsession. The story opens as...
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Morning Roundup: Daniel Radcliffe Sprouts Horns for Horns
The Mary Sue said they wouldn’t make a joke about Daniel Radcliffe being horny, but we think we might, but later, when you don’t expect it. Daniel Radcliffe has horns now. Daniel Radcliffe. This...
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Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution Sweepstakes!
After reading Ann VanderMeer's fabulous introduction, you're probably itching to get your hands on a copy of Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. We anticipated your need, and happen to have three...
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Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution (Excerpt)
We've got the introduction to Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, edited by Ann VanderMeer, out on December 1 from Tachyon Publications:Playfully mashing up the romantic elegance of the Victorian era...
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You Know What? The Casual Vacancy Is Totally Readable
I’ll never forget working at a bookstore in 1999 when the midnight release for Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire went down. At that time, I hadn’t read any of the books and was arrogantly confident...
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Make Something Wicked by Greg Manchess Your Wallpaper in Anticipation of...
Halloween is a perfect time to celebrate all of the hidden creatures and formless things that we otherwise can only touch through stories. (And if we’re particularly unlucky, those things that find us...
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As Beautiful as the Fey: Magic and Romance in Tina Connolly’s Ironskin
I was actually already through two-thirds of Tina Connolly's Ironskin, before I realized that I was reading a fantasy version of Jane Eyre. Of course, to anyone paying attention, this fact is obvious;...
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Queer Cogs: Steampunk, Gender Identity, and Sexuality
As an academic who specializes in Victorian literature and a steampunk who enjoys taking on the persona of Dorian Gray on occasion, I get a lot of questions and not a few strange looks from my...
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Authors Sound Off About Banned Books and Censorship
It’s Banned Books Week once again, a time to celebrate the freedom to read and to spotlight the necessity of free and open access to information. Genre fiction has naturally been the victim of...
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Steampunk Book Pack Sweepstakes!
We've got some lovely books for all of you steampunk fans! Feast your eyes on Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman by Balogun Ojetade, the Steampunk Prime anthology, edited by Mike Ashley, and...
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Magic Through Water: Edward Eager’s Magic by the Lake
Magic by the Lake, the third book in Eager’s “magic” series, takes place about three weeks after Half Magic and features the same characters. And although we had been told in the previous book that it...
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Magic, Blood, and Promises: Courtney Schafer’s The Tainted City
You know how I got talked into reading Schafer’s debut novel, last year’s The Whitefire Crossing?I heard it had rock climbing in it. (That’s my favourite sport at which to suck really badly.) Turned...
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Black Dispatches: Real-Life Superheroes in the Age of Steam(funk)
Espionage—the act or practice of spying or of using spies to obtain secret information—has been with us probably since one of our first villagers looked over the hill to see what the other village was...
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