by Marie-Claude Bourque I find it pretty daring of me to be blogging about Steampunk when I know nothing about it, nothing at all. But I am fascinated by it, those cool gadget and even cooler fashion. A time where everything, even the most far-fetched ideas are possible. I do have my own work-in-progress Steampunk [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Diving into… Steampunk novels
Posted in Books, tagged Marie-Claude Bourque, Steampunk, Steampunk Fiction on May 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Happy Friday
Posted in Airships, Entertainments, Winners!, tagged Airships, steampunk TV show, suzanne lazear, Winners! on May 23, 2009 |
…and the winner of the “Fabulous Flying Machines” contest is…. ~*Lynne Marshall*~ “Personally, I’ve always wanted to have a flying car, but I wanted to be the only one with one so I could pick up and fly around all the traffic without further competition.” Congratulations Lynne, you’ve won a bag of productivity pixy dust [...]
Fabulous Flying Machines
Posted in Airpirates, Airships, Da Vinci, Fictional Inventions, Jules Verne, Victorian Technology, tagged Airpirates, airship pilots, Da Vinci, hoverboards, Jules Verne, steam-powered, suzanne lazear, Victorian Technology, Western Steampunk on May 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
One could almost imagine a ruffian in his leather aviation cap and brass goggles soaring through the sky on such a contraption.
An Interesting Development
Posted in Entertainments, Fictional Inventions, Jewelry, Sculpture, tagged clay artists, Ebay, Jewelry, Sculpture on May 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Steampunk blog STEAMPUNK The newest trend in jewellery and clay I love reading and writing as much as the other members of this little group do. But what I am also passionate about is sculpting with polymer clay (think Fimo, Premo or Super Sculpey) and some of the things created with this clay are magical, [...]
JULES VERNE: What You May Not Know About Him
Posted in Books, Fictional Inventions, Jules Verne, Victorian Technology on May 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Jules Gabriel Verne February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905 Jules Verne was born and raised in the port of Nantes in France. His father was a prosperous lawyer. In order to continue his father’s practice, Verne moved to Paris, where he studied law. His uncle introduced him into literary circles and he started to publish plays [...]
SUPER NEWS from Karen Duvall!
Posted in Books, NEWS on May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
MYSTIC TAXI IS A FINALIST! My steampunk urban fantasy is a finalist in the paranormal category of the Romance Through The Ages contest from RWA’s Hearts Through History chapter. And to think I almost didn’t enter! I wasn’t sure if Mystic Taxi would qualify because technically it’s not a “historical” but an alternate history of a industrial [...]
