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What Is Steampunk? (Sherlock Holmes Cosplay)
Apparently a village in Switzerland has an annual re-enactment festival of the showdown at Reichenbach Falls.
“Holmes’s enduring popularity is also something to do with London…” Too right.
What Is Steampunk? (Duke of York Column)
Okay, it isn’t really steampunk. But it should get punk’d. The Duke ought to turn out to be the guardian of the Mall, and in response to an invasion by airborne Frenchmen, his gears grind into action and he hops down to get to work.
SPACE ELDRITCH
BOOK BOMB!
Howard Tayler breaks out of comic space opera and writes horror. Michael Collings throws his visions of terror into outer space space. Brad Torgerson and Carter Reid combine to create something darker than the sum of their parts. David West and Nathan Shumate both contribute retropunk Cold War visions of horror from beyond. Bob Defendi tells a tale of fanatic cosmonauts like you’ve never seen. Me, I crack jokes about dead languages and wreak havoc on a cosmic scale.
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What Is Steampunk? (France)
Steampunk is retrofuturism, adventures told today in the guise of yesterday’s science fiction. Here’s what French science fiction was a century ago. I love the whimsy of it.
More here.
Not That Council
“Why does Heaven communicate to me by the Sons of Light?”
John smiled. “We have always been Heaven’s. We are the redundant network. The backup plan.”
“The backup plan for what?”
“For when the main plan goes awry. I am a messenger because Heaven cannot trust all of its own, these days.”
“You mean the Legate,” Raphael said.
“And his third.”
“Is he right about that? A third of the Host of Heaven follows him?”
“I don’t know. If not a third, in any case there are many.”
“If you are Heaven’s second network,” Raphael asked, “why do you need me at all? Why not carry out the errand yourself?”
As soon as he had formulated the question, he knew what the answer had to be.
The Prester smiled. “You must Bear the Word.”
“A prophet is to be called?”
“A man of vision has stood in the council of the divine ones.”
“In Heaven?”
“Not that council.”
Raphael thought back to the scene of chaos and destruction in the depths of Hell, only a few weeks earlier. He remembered watching the Legate of Heaven and the guitar player Eddie Marlowe running deeper into the caverns together while he was forced back. “Eddie Marlowe,” he said. “You mean me to Bear the Word to Eddie Marlowe.”
A Bite of Magic
And now a word from Danyelle Leafty, author of several terrific MG and YA fantasy tales:
Magic isn’t a handful of sparkling dust, a star-topped wand, or a tame word captured on parchment.
It’s alive. It has a mind of its own. And it’s hungry.
To celebrate the release of Slippers of Pearl and Bitten: A Novel of Faerie, I’d like to offer a bite of magic to all those who love kidlit–and fairy tales in particular.
There will be eleven winners and six different prizes available:
A Bite of Cobbler
Shoes, unlike magic, are predictable. They don’t change shape, bite, or alter a person’s destiny.
And that’s just how Faryn likes it.
But his Uncle Harvey has a bad habit of dying. While inconvenient, this hasn’t ever been a problem until now. Thanks to an evil witch and a poisoned apple turnover, Harvey is dead again—permanently this time.
As his uncle’s heir, Faryn has to give up shoemaking in order to accept and refine his magic.
Magic he never wanted.
Unwilling to let go of his dream, but unable to escape his destiny, Faryn combines the two and discovers a knack for making magical shoes. He also learns that turning a person into a goose is a lot easier than turning her back, and that he severely underestimated how much trouble magic can be.
The witch who killed his uncle is trying to control all the magic of the land, and it’s up to Faryn to stop her. If only he can get his magic to cooperate in time.
an autographed copy of Slippers of Pearl
a magical pouch to keep it in
and a Slippers of Pearl bookmark
A Bite of Faerie
(Available October 2nd-ish)
Fourteen-year-old Cherrie Wilding stopped believing in fairies after her Grams had a stroke that left her a silent, empty stranger. But whether she believes in them or not, one of them bit her, and now the venom is spreading through her system and causing . . . complications. Like an allergy to iron and a craving for milk.
It turns out that fairy venom has the power to turn mortals into small, winged versions of themselves. And it gets better. Grams’s stroke was the result of her light—her fairy soul—being stolen. The fairy who bit Cherrie demands her to help steal Grams’s light back.
As much as Cherrie wants to save Grams, her need to protect her older brother from the fairies and the rest of the real world wins out. Who knows what lurks in a world populated by winged menaces? But when the fairy talks Cherrie’s brother into going to the fairy realm, Cherrie mounts a rescue attempt to save him. To her surprise, it’s not her brother who needs rescuing—it’s the fairies. Someone is stealing their lights and imprisoning them, and it’s up to Cherrie and her brother to free them. But saving the fairies, keeping her brother safe, and returning home requires the help of the Phoenix. And the price for his aid doesn’t come cheap. If Cherrie wants to succeed, she must be willing to part with her greatest possession: her heart.
an autographed copy of Bitten: A Novel of Faerie
a faerie habitat
a Bitten bookmark
A Bite of Books
1 $25 Amazon Gift Card
Two Bites of Music
2 $15 iTunes Gift Cards
Six Bites of Braun Books Certificates
6 $10 gift certificates to Braun Books; redeemable in store or through Amazon
(A special thanks to Megan at Braun Books!)
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Thank you to all, and best of luck!
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What Is Steampunk? (Clocksprung Horses)
It’s like The Atlantic is reading City of the Saints.
These clocksprung horses are headless. Maybe Master Sergeant Jackson has already been at them.
