Posts Tagged ‘steampunk’

The Iron Horse by Edward Marston

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Now, this ought to have been right up my street. London, railways and Victoriana, by Jove. Must have a touch of the old Steampunk about it, you would have thought. In fact, jolly close to the kind of stuff I find myself writing in my spare time. (And churning out at great length come November and December, but that’s another story. Literally.) But not a bit of it.

Out of this World: Sci fi, but not as you know it, at the British Library

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

When you hear the term ‘science fiction’, what do you think about? Is it Golden Age stuff from the 50s set in a shiny spaceport somewhere in an imaginary solar system? Do you see the shadow of huge, city-sized spacecraft crossing the sky?