Steampunk DIY Tea Party
Join me on Thursday, July 23rd at 3pm for an event which is part Victorian tea party, part DIY (do it yourself) extravaganza. While you enjoy your tea and scones, learn how to create real Victorian...
View ArticleScope of Speculative Fiction
Speculative Fiction (SciFi/Fantasy) has often taken the possible and impossible to explore new worlds or our world in alternate times or histories. Within that larger genre are many subgenres. Amy...
View ArticleSteampunk
I’m coming late to this party. Yes, I’ve seen the movies and watched some of the TV shows. But overall, the concept of steampunk is fairly new to me. I do recall hearing the term many years ago, and...
View ArticleBehemoth
Alek and Deryn, I mean, Dylan are back for the second installment of the Leviathan Trilogy. Picking up directly after the close of Leviathan, Behemoth finds Alek and Dylan racing toward Istanbul in...
View ArticleShocking!!!
The time has finally come; the end of one of my favorite series. Sure it was a trilogy, but it was just so darn fun! The characters, the setting, the action, the plot; every element about the story was...
View ArticleSF Genre: Steampunk
The progression of Steampunk from fringe subgenre to mainstream has taken a few decades. You could say it has taken a little over a century if you want to throw in H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, and we...
View ArticleSailing the Iron Seas
While I'm waiting in line for a copy of Rivetedby Meljean Brook, I decided to re-read the first two full length books in the Iron Seas series, The Iron Duke and Heart of Steel. This created a...
View ArticleBook Hunters in Brief #19: Steampunk Romance Series
http://www.hcpl.net/content/book-hunters-brief-19-steampunk-romance-seriesThis week, Book Hunters turn their attention to a relatively new subgenre: a mashup of steampunk and the ever-popular...
View ArticleThe Cinder Spires: Aeronaut's Windlass
Jim Butcher is well known for his captivating series, whether with a film noir, magical detective style such as the Dresden Files or the Roman era in another time and place through the Codex Alera...
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