Welcome back to another post about fun Steampunk movies for the whole family to help keep steam-parents sane during the lock down. Steam Boy is a wonderful choice for kids and adults. The director, Katsuhiro Otomo, is best known … Continue reading Counting Down Family-Friendly Steampunk Movies: Steamboy (2004)
Though I am sure many of you had already heard of both The Golden Compass and The City of Ember movies, I bet a lot fewer of you knew about this little gem. What is The Adventurer: Curse of … Continue reading Counting Down Family-Friendly Steampunk Movies: The Adventurer: Curse of the Midas Box (2013)
When we transitioned to our new theme over here at the Journal, several of the most recent reviews disappeared. This included a whole month of stuff for young adult and kids. So, to help all you Steampunk lovers out during … Continue reading Counting Down Family-Friendly Steampunk Movies: The City of Ember (2008)
When we changed over to the new look for the Journal, many posts mysteriously disappeared. This included a ton of great content for kids and young adults, which I thought could be helpful right now with all the rugrats at … Continue reading Counting Down Family-Friendly Steampunk Movies: The Golden Compass (2007)
Things in Jars, by Jess Kidd, reviewed by Gregory G.H Rihn The new novel, Things in Jars, is of interest to Steampunks because it incorporates many tropes we tend to be fond of: Victorian detectives, questionably sane science, and things humankind was not meant to meddle with. It also plays off the Victorian Age rage for collecting, and the morbid interest in “freaks of nature” that gave rise to the circus sideshow. In a way, the book is rather like K.W. Jeter-light, if he didn’t have to make every single thing in a novel grotesque, and every character hateful. The … Continue reading A Jarring Experience
On Sunday evening, March 29th, we streamed the new feature film, Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears from Acorn. This is a follow-on to the well-regarded Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries produced for Australian television. The “Miss Fisher” of the title is The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, played by Essie Davis. Phryne grew up rough, tough, and poor, until a distant cousin in England popped off, and an heir search found Phryne’s father the only claimant to a barony and sizable fortune. Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries are popular with Steampunks because of the period biplanes, steam trains, motorcars, and motorcycles … Continue reading Review: Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Daring the COVID-19 pandemic (which at that time was not an official crisis in Wisconsin yet) we attended Geneva Steam Convention. We knew that this was to be the last Geneva Steam Con, as the small but doughty band of organizers have decided to commit energies elsewhere for the forseeable future, but, as it turned out, may be the last fannish gathering, Steampunk or otherwise, for some time to come. Just as we came home from the con, governmental responses to the epidemic were ramping up, and, by this writing, we are beginning the second week of government “stay at … Continue reading Geneva Steam Con 2020, The Last Hot Time—
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, by Natasha Pulley: reviewed by Gregory G. H. Rihn The Lost Future of Pepperharrow is the third book by Natasha Pulley set in the world of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. Unlike The Bedlam Stacks, which was a prequel of sorts, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow is a direct sequel to Watchmaker. In Lost Future, Mori has gone back to Japan, via Russia. His old schoolmate, Kuroda, has become Prime Minister of Japan. The Imperial Russian Fleet is staging provocative maneuvers in sight of the Japanese coast, Kuroda has ordered a fleet of new warships … Continue reading Review: The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, by Natasha Pulley
Well regarded as the father of science fiction, HG Wells is synonymous with Martian invasions, invisible men, time travel and… Lego? This fantastic recreation of The Time Machine (2002 movie of the same title), comes from Lego enthusiast Darren Jones. … Continue reading Your Vote Can Bring HG Wells’ Time Machine to Life – in LEGO!
I first encountered Vardo at TeslaCon, and seeing as how they are from Wisconsin, this should come as no surprise. I was supposed to catch up with Chad at the 2019 event, but I was so beat from my whirlwind, … Continue reading Big Things on the Horizon for Chad Canfield and the Band “Vardo”
