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TIME Joins Those Noticing Steampunk

Previously I mentioned how IBM was prediciting that steampunk was going mainstream, and now it seems TIME is joining in on noticing it.

They just released an article entitled '5 Reasons You'll Be Talking About Steapunk in 2013'. 

As usual, this will spark the debates of what exactly steampunk is, whether mainstreaming will help or hinder it and the usual such questions.

A Big Thank You

When I started this project for my Library & Information Systems course, I had no real expectations for it.  I had hoped that it would do decent, but so far it has exceeded my wildest expectations.

The traffic I have been getting visiting the blog is far in excessive of on any blog I have tried to run before.  It has only been up four and a half months, and so far there have been over 3200 hit and visitors for 53 different countries.  Most of that traffic had been since January as well.

I guess I didn't anticipate just how popular the steampunk genre is. 

I look forward to continuing to post for as long as people are interested.

And the top three posts on the site are;

Victorian Era and Steampunk Names

Stampunk Trains

Steampunk Dragons

More Steampunk Wedding Goodness

My fiancee, in the course of planning our own wedding, has come across all sorts of wonderful ideas and examples of other people's steampunk weddings.

One such repository for this is RockNRoll Bride - a collection of photos of Steampunk/Victorian themed weddings can be seen there, as well as accounts on the events, how they came to be and turned out.

Well worth a look if you have the desire to have a wedding of your own in that style, or just like looking at wedding photos.

Shakespeare with a Steampunk Vibe

As yet another example of how wonderously varied the whole steampunk movement can be, comes this story of Shakespeare with a steampunk vibe.

At the Maddermarket Theatre, in Norwich, UK, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is being staged, but this one with an innovative steampunk look to it.

As one who has always enjoyed the Bard, I would have enjoyed seeing it.  Alas, living on the other side of the world does tend to cause issues in that regard.

Those behind the staging also have a blog about it all.

Moving Pictures - Dr Grordbort Presents: The Deadliest Game

Recently coming to light is this Dr Grordbort moving picture, featuring Lord Broadforce, showing off his collection methods of rare Venusian wildlife - all guns blazing!  It is very much in the old pulp style of planetary adventure.

 

Moving Pictures - Lantern City Concept Trailer

Lantern City, the upcoming television steampunk show, have released a short moving picture concept trailer for it.  This is not the full trailer, but designed to give a feel for the visual style, character development, and emotional importance of the series.

Jim Butcher to Write Steampunk Series

Publishers Weekly just released an announcement to say that Jim Butcher, author of the popular 14 book urban fantasy Dresden Files, has signed a seven figure, three book deal for a steampunk series called The Cinder Spires.

The announcement reads;

Penguin Group is continuing its relationship with bestselling fantasy writer Jim Butcher. The author of the Dresden Files and Codex Alera closed a seven-figure, three-book deal with his current publisher for a new series. Anne Sowards, at Roc, took world English rights to The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass, and two sequels, from agent Jennifer Jackson at Donald Maass Literary. Butcher recently published the 14th book in the Dresden Files, a series that has been adapted to TV (on SyFy channel) and turned into a comic book (published by Dynamite Entertainment). The Cinder Spires, Jackson said, is set in a world “of black spires that tower for miles over a mist-shrouded surface” and follows a war between two of the Spires: Spire Albion and Spire Aurora.

And from Jim's website;

At the Reddit AMA a few months ago, Jim said, “It’s kinda League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Sherlock meets Hornblower. There are goggles and airships and steam power and bizarre crystal technology and talking cats, who are horrid little bullies.”
Jim is still writing the first book, The Aeronaut’s Windlass, so we don’t have a release date yet. We’ll let you know as soon as there’s something to announce!

Steampunk Submersibles

One of the best known of Jules Verne's novels, who is one of the main inspirations behind steampunk, is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which features Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus.  While submarines had been designed and built previous to his work, his vision of them was more advanced than any at the time, and encouraged inventors towards making his vision a reality.

So here follow some steampunk refashioning of submarines and submersibles.

A Steampunk Robot's Workshop