![]() ![]() ![]() Ann VanderMeer is the fiction editor for Weird Tales, and is the founder of Buzzcity Press. Their new anthology, Steampunk, from Tachyon Publications, should help that situation: Collecting together stories by such writers as Neal Stephenson, James Blaylock, Michael Chabon, Paul Di Filippo, Joe Lansdale, Ted Chiang, and others, as well as an excerpt from Michael Moorcock’s The Warlord of the Air, as well as helpful essays by Jess Nevins, Rick Klaw, and Bill Baker, Steampunk is a thoroughly engaging read.Īnn and Jeff VanderMeer have collaborated on many editing projects, most recently The New Weird anthology, also with Tachyon Publications. Scarcely a day - some days, scarcely an hour - goes by without a BoingBoing post devoted to some lovingly crafted steampunk mod.Īs Ann and Jeff VanderMeer discuss below, however, that DIY culture is frequently unaware of its own literary roots. Originally a literary movement that mashed cyberpunk-style themes with speculative rewritings of Victorian culture, steampunk is now equally a subculture devoted to repurposing mass-market consumer products into gloriously obsessive idiosyncratic designs. It’s fair to say that steampunk is enjoying an odd sort of second coming these days. ![]()
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