Writing POC While White
Steeplejack author A.J. Harltey talks about “the Jurassic Park conundrum,” writing people of color while white, and more in the Tor Newsletter.
Tag: Steampunk
Sneak Peek: Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium’s disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britain join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo’s “owner,” King…
Steampunk Sweepstakes
Looking for a great steampunk read? Here’s your chance to get started on two awesome series! We’ve got five copies each of The Six-Gun Tarot and Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl to give away. Comment below to enter for a chance to win. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A purchase does not…
Throwback Thursdays: The Devil Wears Goggles
Welcome to Throwback Thursdays on the Tor/Forge blog! Every other week, we’re delving into our newsletter archives and sharing some of our favorite posts. Fiddlehead, the fifth book in Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century series, is here! To celebrate the publication of Cherie’s latest steampunk adventure, we’ve reached back in our archives to October 2009, when…
Everyone’s Invited to the Steampunk Party
Written by K. W. Jeter By the time you read this, or shortly thereafter, there’s good chance I’ll be preparing to head to Brighton, along with a lot of other folks attending the World Fantasy Convention. I’ve looked forward to this for quite a while, as it’ll be the first time in – ouch –…
Book Trailer: Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl by David Barnett
Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl by David Barnett Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world—including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from Sandsend,…
Playing Fast and Loose with History
Written by David Barnett With Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl, I didn’t really set out to write a steampunk novel. Nor did I really plan to write an alternate-history novel. I just wanted to write a novel, one that was exciting and thrilling and a good yarn. I suppose, though, when I wrote the…
Starred Review: Fiendish Schemes by K. W. Jeter
“Jeter’s vision of a Victorian world transformed by steam power is fascinating and funny, populated by ambulatory lighthouses, grain-disdaining meatpunks, anarchist coalpunks, and depraved ‘fex’ addicts obsessed with ‘valve girls.’ He thoroughly entertains readers with brilliant speculation and a charmingly reluctant hero.” K. W. Jeter’s Fiendish Schemes got a starred review in Publishers Weekly! Here’s…
Starred Review: Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl by David Barnett
“Barnett gleefully blends Victorian-era characters with steam and clockwork technology in a ‘steampulp’ romance of supernatural adventure… With sky pirates, gibbering frog-faced hordes, and nods to historical figures both real and imaginary, Barnett doesn’t miss a trope, and even readers who don’t usually love steampunk will gobble it up.” David Barnett’s Gideon Smith and the…
A Letter from Harry Ransom
A Letter from Harry Ransom Written by Felix Gilman [We are pleased to announce that the writings of the famous Harry Ransom – some might say notorious – have now been collected and published as The Rise of Ransom City. This letter was found too late to be included. Besides, the fellow who says he…