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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...

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Scope 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...

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Steampunk

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...

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Behemoth

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...

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Shocking!!!

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...

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SF 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...

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Sailing 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...

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Book 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...

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The 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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