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At the Springville Museum of Art
Book restorer, plastic artist, and ukulele virtuoso Chris McAfee turned a copy of City of the Saints into a piece of steampunk art a few years ago. That piece is currently on display in Springville, Utah. And also available for … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, City of the Saints, McAfee, Springville, Steampunk
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ANTHOLOGY UPDATE — MORMON STEAMPUNK
The OFFICIAL deadline for submissions has passed. If you and I already talked about having extra time or a later deadline, no worries, keep working. If you’re close, and still want to submit, message me and let me know. We’ll … Continue reading
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – ANTHOLOGY OF MORMON STEAMPUNK
As you may know, my novel CITY OF THE SAINTS is an action adventure steampunk romp set in a steam-powered Kingdom of Deseret in the year 1859. Someday, I will revisit that specific setting. In the meantime, I’m happy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthology, City of the Saints, Immortal Works, James Wymore, Mormon Steampunk, Steampunk
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Bookshelf: Extracted
Ember is a Rifter. Operating out of a multi-story underground bunker and guided by their ghost of Nikola Tesla, she and her fellow-Rifters — with no memory of their personal pasts — travel through time, backward and forward, protecting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Extracted, Sherry D. Ficklin, Steampunk, Tesla, The Lost Imperials, Time Travel, Tyler H. Jolley, Young Adult
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Bookshelf: Relic
I love alt-Westerns. David J. West’s COLD SLITHER is an example, a collection of pulp fiction in the vein of Manly Wade Wellman, featuring real-life mountain man and gunfighter Orrin Porter Rockwell. Another favorite is Aaron Michael Ritchey’s Juniper Wars … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Michael Ritchey, City of the Saints, Cold Slither, Dandelion Iron, David J. West, Fantasy, Juniper Wars, Relic, Renee Collins, Steampunk, Western
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Bookshelf: Blood Curse
Blood Curse opens on the same brutal ground as the first book of Jake Lasater’s adventures, Blood Ties — in Jake’s origin story. In Blood Ties we saw him obey his pointless order to sacrifice his life and his men’s … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Lincoln’s Wizard
Braxton Wright is no war hero, no matter what the newspapers say. He’s just the engineer who was aboard the Union battle walker Monitor at the Battle of Parkersburg, and who drove the Monitor across enemy lines, disrupting their formations … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Dan Willis, Dragons of the Confederacy, Jeff Brimley, Lincoln's Wizard, Steampunk, Tracy Hickman
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Bookshelf: Airships of Camelot
Airships of Camelot is Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan meets The Once and Future King. Like Leviathan, Airships is likely to get called “Steampunk,” though that category fits loosely at best. In some ways, this retelling of the Arthur story has more … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The Alyscrai
Steampunk luxuriates in the self-bestowed freedom to mix any influence, aesthetic, period, pseudo-scientific or fantastic element, and literary or historical character it wishes into its brew and distill therefrom a tale. The Alyscrai pushes the envelope in its wide-ranging and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, D.H. Aidan, Dunlith Hill, Steampunk
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Connecticon 2015
I’m heading to Connecticut this week. I’ve spent a surprising amount of time in and around Hartford in the last year with corporate training clients, but this time I’m heading out for Connecticon. Here’s my tentative schedule: Friday 2:40 pm … Continue reading
