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Friday, September 7, 2012

~Questions and Answers with Lord Bobbins~

Lord Hasting R. Bobbins, Steampunk Lord and organizer of Teslacon, the definitive Steampunk Convention, took time out from his busy schedule (he is planning on taking us to the moon after all) to answer a few silly steampunk questions. Sadly, if you haven't already booked passage for Teslacon, all the tickets are gone into the aether... more than three months before the event without any guests announced yet! Though, I am curious as to who those guests might be.

Question: What is the definitive Steampunk book for you?

Answer: The Osiris Ritual by George Mann*

*George was a guest at last years Teslacon, and will be participating in Steampunk Summer starting Next Week!

Question: What drew you to this genre?

Answer: A friend.

Question: How do you take your tea?

Answer: Plain - with a little sugar.

Question: Must have sartorial accessory?

Answer: My bug lapel pin.

Question: Sartorial leaning: Street Urchin, Tinker, Explorer or Aesthete?

Answer: Explorer

Question: Top hat or bowler hat?

Answer: Please-Top Hat.

Question: Subgenre you most identify with: Boilerpunk, Clockpunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Romance, Mannerspunk, Raygun Gothic or Stitchpunk?

Answer: Diesel/Raygun

Question: If there was one thing that could truly exist from the world of Steampunk what would it be?

Answer: Dirigibles....

Question: If there was one element in the Steampunk genre you could remove forever what would it be?

Answer: Burlesque- I think it darkens the genre.

Question: Favorite movie or television series with Steampunk elements?

Answer: Q.E.D. - from the 80's.*

*Q.E.D. is a 1982 short-lived adventure series set in Edwardian England, starring Sam Waterston as Professor Quentin Everett Deverill (Q.E.D). The Professor was a scientific detective in the mold of Sherlock Holmes, and the series had a smattering of what would later be called steampunk.

Question: Preferred mode of transport: celestial, aether, terra firma or aquatic?

Answer: Airship - all the way.

Question: Favorite Queen to have had a diamond jubilee, Victoria or Elizabeth?

Answer: Please-Vicki.

Question: Victorian or Wild West?

Answer: Again...Victorian

Question: Would you like an automaton butler or ladies maid, considering that it might be the first step in the robotic apocalypse?

Answer: Butler- but I control the punch cards.

Question: If The Doctor showed up at your door, where would you go?

Answer: I go pee...doctors never show up anymore.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Steampunk Summer

Most of my life I have been surrounded by Steampunk, though in ignorance. Partly because it was before the term came into being in the late eighties and partly because I was like Clara in The Guild and just referred to it as "the clocky windy stuff." I spent the Sundays of my childhood at my grandparents watching The Wild Wild West, though I will admit that my attention waned after the opening credits ended and I was more worried about how scary Doctor Who was and what lurked in the quarry out back that my grandfather insisted I go play in after watching some horrid creature emerge out of just such a quarry on Doctor Who. Yet I was left with Artemus Gordon who was the first truly Steampunk scientist out there, still cool years later in the lame movie reboot with Will Smith, Kevin Kline still brought it. Even in the eighties cartoon BraveStarr, I was aware on some level of the aesthetics this genre has: anachronistic technology that was futuristic visions of the Victorians where steam power rules. The future that never was. A nostalgia for an age that never existed. A world where dirigibles still reined the skies and weren't a thing of the past, referred more in history books as a folly, due to the explosion of the Hindenburg, not as a luxurious mode of transport.

Even as I aged I never really thought that there was an umbrella, or should I say parasol, that encompassed all these elements. I watched movies like Sleepy Hollow and never questioned Johnny Depp's magnificent headgear other than to think how awesome it was. I read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and revelled in the alternate world but thought no more of it. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a decent comic, a crappy movie, which I saw twice for no apparent reason other than the world it created. I enjoyed what I liked but never sought it out. I read and watched more and more books and shows and movies that incorporated elements of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, horror, and speculative fiction that are all part of Steampunk, yet it went no further.

Then I started this blog. Then I found Gail Carriger. When I first saw the cover for Soulless it seemed to unify all these past ideas and feelings. All this knowledge of things I have loved where really just part of something bigger. Something called Steampunk. Going into Borders and picking up that copy of Soulless was the first step on a slippery slope. Now I can't get enough Steampunk. I actively search it out versus passively waiting for it to appear in front of me. I go to conventions and gatherings, I dress up, I'm trying to work my courage up to try a corset. I have embraced this world, and, I have to say, it embraced me. I have never met such wonderful, polite and nice people as I have since I fully discovered Steampunk.

My discovery seems to have come at the same time as others. Steampunk is, dare I say it, almost mainstream. It's everywhere from cartoons on Nickolodeaon, to blockbuster movies. Even the London National's production of Frankenstein had very overt Steampunk elements. The genre has blossomed into something I don't think anyone could have guessed. So, in honor of this genre, I have decided to devote the steamiest months of the year to the genre relying on steam. Please join me in raising a cup of tea, fine bone china with just the right amount of milk and sugar, to Steampunk! Throughout the summer there will be reviews, author interviews, giveaways, sartorial discussions and more Steampunk than you can shake your monocle at! Gail Carriger, George Mann, Cherie Priest, Lord Bobbins, Paul Magrs, Philipa Ballantine and more will be here to discuss this genre that has captured the imagination and the mainstream.

Please feel free to drop me a line if you'd be interested in participating in Steampunk Summer in a more active role!

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