I'm presenting a paper at Wastelands tomorrow morning:
A Brief History of Steampunk: What Wound It Up and Why It Still Ticks
Steampunk can be purely science fictional or a mixture of science fiction and fantasy, suffused with anything from a heavy dash to a light sprinkling of neo-Victorianism. So why not neo-classicism? Or druidism? Or Roman chariotpunk? What is it about the Victorians that secures their place in steampunk? To explore this question, I will look at works of proto-science fiction, beginning from the early 1800s, following an evolutionary branch to the works of Jeter, Powers, Blaylock, Gibson, Sterling and Mieville.
Australian Books I'm Excited to Read in 2025
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I made this image earlier in 2025, when I was writing on my Instagram
account about the importance of pre-ordering books. The list of books that
I am ...
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