I have yet to get into Steampunk stories, but I am really enjoying the general concept of it and the clothing. I love the idea of an alternate reality using such devices. Can you imagine how different the world would be if we had such things as mechanical televisions?
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Martin Baxter <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Steampunk is edging up into the realm of deriving stories from true Steam > settings (i.e. a future derived from an initial Steam realm), and I couldn't > be happier, because I've been trying my hand at it, unsuccessfully to date > because I'm surprisingly having trouble working within the strict > constraints of Victorian society (would've thought that a Liberal Prude such > as myself would slip right in). This way, my social vision can more fully > take root (women in stronger roles/positions, true racial equality, et > cetera). > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:21:47 -0800 > Subject: [scifinoir2] How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past > Decade > > > > > Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are almost done reading the submissions for their > second steampunk anthology, which will focus much more on stories from the > past decade as opposed to classic tales. And they're noticing some big > changes in the make-up of steampunk lit. Writes Jeff VanderMeer: > The biggest change is that a subgenre in which very few women wrote now > features a plethora of women-as Ann and I had suspected, and stated in > various interviews at the time-and thus many more female contributors to > this second volume. The greater variety of setting and situation, though, is > pretty even across gender. This anthology is also situated at the cusp of > much more robust participation in this subgenre internationally and > multi-culturally... Indeed, Steampunk Version 2.0 seems to have reached its > peak–without that infusion of new perspectives, it's likely to eat itself > rather rapidly. > [Ecstatic > Days<http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2010/02/16/steampunk-reading-almost-done/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ecstaticdays+%28Ecstatic+Days%29&utm_content=Google+Reader> > ] > > Send an email to Charlie Jane Anders, the author of this post, at > [email protected]<[email protected]?subject=http://io9.com/5473434/how-steampunk-literature-has-changed-in-the-past-decade>. > > > > > [image: Click here to find out > more!]<http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v8/3945/0/0/*/p;44306;0-0;0;23538270;3454-728/90;0/0/0;;%7Eokv=;ptile=3;sz=728x90;%7Eaopt=2/1/ff/0;%7Esscs=?> > > [image: track] > > > > > * > > E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514) > Database version: 6.14390 > http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor-antivirus/<http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/> > * > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up > now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/> > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
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