Showing posts with label steampunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steampunk. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2015

One last romp through London - and beyond - with the Hadrians.

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“The Gaslight Chronicles” are finally brought to a close in Cindy Spencer Pape's Ether and Elephants . Note: Dragons & ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Alexia wasn't the first Tarabotti to travel to Egypt

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The growing popularity of the ebook has created a renaissance in the short story market. once relegated to transient magazines and intimidat...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Who's to say a lady in trousers would be a bad influence?

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Betrayal, human cargo and the Chinese underworld all converge on Black Heath Manor in Cindy Spencer Pape's  Dragons & Dirigibles . ...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Victorian London isn't exactly tolerant of a girl with a temper

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Miss Jayne has lost another position without a reference in this first story of The Steampunk Chronicles, Kady Cross' 'The Strange C...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Family isn't always about blood

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A mother's love for her child sends her on a dangerous mission in Cindy Spencer Pape's 'Ashes and Alchemy.' Note: Ashe...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

An epic tale of magic and machinery comes to an end.

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There's still time for the story to expand before it comes to a conclusion in Emma Jane Holloway's A Study in Ashes .  Note: ...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Manga Monday: Alexia is hardly one to take disgrace quietly

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Alexia is certainly not one to let things go without a fight, and even goes so far as to fight the Templars of Italy in Soulless The Manga V...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Sometimes help comes from the most unexpected places

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Miss Evelina Cooper finds herself in a new situation in Emma Jane Holloway's A Study in Darkness . Note: A Study in Darkness  is ...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

An early Steampunk adventure gets a revisit

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Mr. Dower is back in London, but it's hardly the city he remembers in K W Jeter's long-awaited sequel to Infernal Devices , Fiendish...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Attending the Season in London has rarely been so dangerous

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With an uncle like Sherlock Holmes, it only follows that Evelina Cooper would end up in the middle of a murder mystery in Emma Jane Holloway...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

An early Steampunk romp through Victorian London

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After his father's death, a young man's world begins to crumble around him in K W Jeter's Infernal Devices: A Mad Victorian Fant...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Sometimes it takes a little magic to save the scientists

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There's magic and treason in the air, and it will take both a sorceress and a genius to resolve it in Lilith Saintcrow's The Iron Wy...
Friday, August 2, 2013

A photographer's camera shows a bit more

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A shadowy presence, and a string of deaths, may doom a young lady's portrait studio in Cindy Spencer Pape's second 'Gaslight Ch...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Steam, romance and the supernatural intertwined

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Sir Merrick Hadrian's life is turned upside-down by five talented orphans - and the governess he hires to care for them - in Cindy Spenc...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

It takes a village - or a circus - to raise a child

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It's an old-fashioned Scottish witch-burning in Cindy Spencer Pape's 5th Gaslight Chronicles story, Cards and Caravans . Not...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Manga Monday: It makes sense that Alexia would end up hanging off the side of an airship

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We meet Lord Maccon's former pack, and they have a most peculiar problem on their hands in Gail Carriger and Yen Press' Soulless The...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

This isn't your grandmother's finishing school

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Gail Carriger returns to the Parasol Protectorate universe with a young adult prequel, Finishing School Book the First: Etiquette & Espi...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Where nobility is concerned, conspiracies run deep

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Most vampire and werewolf mythologies assume that these creatures have been in existence for millenia. In fact, the origins of these creatur...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Manga Monday: Miss Tarabotti has never looked so very...anime

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The first book of the Parasol Protectorate has been turned into a manga by the good people at Yen Press, beginning with Soulless Volume 1 ...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Imagine the air quality if we still used coal in cities today!

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The year is 1859 and the Crown has more to worry about than usual in Cindy Spencer Pape's fourth story of The Gaslight Chronicles, Moon...