It’s typical of human priorities that we invented firearms and Greek fire centuries before we figured out how to fly. Luckily, we can rely on the imaginations of science fiction and fantasy writers, who routinely take something already quite awesome (the power of flight) and make it even more awesome by eschewing the sleek lines of a […]
Steampunk experienced a glorious rebirth around 2009, in large part because of the unparalleled commercial and critical success of Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker, the first installment in her Clockwork Century saga (which also includes Clementine, Dreadnought, Ganymede, The Inexplicables, and the recently released Fiddlehead). A lot has happened to steampunk in the last five years: the […]