Newsmakers

I first “met” Ay-leen when I began reading her website, Beyond Victoriana, which focused its lens on non-European Steampunk. Suffice to say, I was impressed by the depth of the awesome on that website and became an avid reader of the posts there ever since. I had the good fortune to meet her and her fiancee in person a few months ago when both where in New England. And the discussion of course was wide ranging, as discussions are wont to be. Here now though, Ay-leen talks with us about her draw to Steampunk, the change in her advocacy...

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Monique Poirier came to the attention of Doctor Fantastique’s Show of Wonders when she penned a guest post for a favorite site of mine — Beyond Victoriana — about moving past the stereotypes that Native Americans tend to face in Science Fiction. Her insightful and educational article about integrating her heritage as a Seaconke Wampanoag into her Steampunk costuming was … well … insightful, and so I realized that she needed to be featured here in an interview. So without further ado, here we ask Monique about the alternate history she created, what bothers her about the portrayal of...

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Karin Lowachee’s first novel, WARCHILD, won the 2001 Warner Aspect First Novel Contest , and both that novel and her third book, CAGEBIRD (2005) were also finalists for the Philip K. Dick Awar. In 2006, CAGEBIRD won both the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English and the Spectrum Award. Karin’s works have also graced the Locus Bestseller List, and her second novel BURNDIVE rose to number 7. I first heard of Karin’s works when I came across an interview she did with Ay-leen the Peacemaker at Beyond Victoriana. And then she came up in a discussion...

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