Being personally invited to attend the Antipodean Steampunk Show was delightful unneccessarism. Delightful in that I had been looking forward to the Brisbane-premeiring gallery since it was announced in 2011; and unnecessary in that there was no way I would miss…
Author Archive for Colin Morris
Chief Australian Correspondent Colin Morris's dedication to steampuLP started with an adoration for mad science and mad scientists, the delightfully decorated and dressed doctors of Victorian fiction cemented his commitment to the movement. He's a cobbler of devices, costumed consumer of conventions, eschews weapons more deadly than his Hypnoray, and loves to watch the wonderfully unexpected directions steampunk can take. One of the founding members of ROSEA, he also has a completely non-functional yet quite pretty laboratory-in-progress built under his house. He assures us one day he'll turn all those collected cardboard tubes into steam-piping. Sure.
It’s Time To Grade Steampunk
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In the article “It’s Time To Rethink Steampunk”, author Jess Nevins discusses two groups (descriptivists and prescriptivists) and how despite them both being scriptivitists they clash on defining what is and isn’t Steampunk. He then highlights author Cherie Priest’s thinking…
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For those outside the United States, we have to use non-Kickstarter sites for our crowd-sourcing. Here are two Extra-Statesian projects you can opt to back:
A fob-watch chain-style holder for your iPod Nano. A bit more on the Diesel-punk side of things, but still splendid.
Professor Elemental (yes that Professor Elemental) wants his own TV show. Well who doesn’t?
Video of the song of the book Across the Stonewind Sky
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As promised in a previous article, Ged Maybury’s book “Across the Stonewind Sky” had in production as part of its promotion a music video of the song written for the book. It was released on Friday 2nd March 2012 as…
Interview: Ged Maybury
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Already established as an author for the children and young adult market (a finalist in the New Zealand Children’s Book Awards ’94 and New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards ’01), Ged Maybury has just released “Into the Storm’s Domain”, the…
Steampunk Supanova
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For years the comic, anime, game and RPG aficionados of Brisbane, Australia had no convention to attend. Nowhere to meet like-minded individuals, nowhere to peruse wares for purchase, nowhere to lineup for hours on end in attire entirely unsuited to…