A quick introduction to Steampunk Cosplay What is Cosplay? Quick definition below (from Wikipedia) Cosplay short for “costume play”. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction. Favorite sources include manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games, hentai and fantasy movies. Or …
SteamPunk is a science fiction / fantasy sub genre that is based around the premise that Late 19 century/Victorian technology is able to achieve modern or futuristic machines, devices and computers. The idea that the victorians could build spaceships powered on steam, or cowboys in the wild west could build robot sherifs. The central images …
Rebellion Publishing is proud to announce the opening of its brand new digital store ? giving you the pick of the freshest genre writing available at the click of a button. Everything from SF to horror and fantasy to urban fantasy will be available direct from our Solaris and Abaddon Books imprints for the first …
Cubicle 7 is pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of its new fiction imprint ? Cubicle 7 Fiction . In cooperation with the established and successful Solaris and Abaddon Books imprints, Cubicle 7 Fiction will publish between three and five novels and anthologies a year based upon its terrific science fiction, fantasy, and speculative properties. …
Continuing its commitment to digital publishing through its READ ANYTHING campaign, Solaris Books is delighted to announce a preview book now available on iTunes ? for free! The Wizard?s Coming is now available as a free ebook on iTunes, which serves as an excellent introduction to the brand new epic fantasy series, The Hadrumal Crisis …
Abaddon Books is delighted to announce a bold new venue in genre publishing ? one where the readers are in charge! Time?s Arrow will be the latest book from the world?s longest continuously running Steampunk novel series, Pax Britannia. Set in a world where the Victorian age never ended, Pax Britannia is an insane world …
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Had a press release from those fantastic guys at Solaris Books: Clockwork zombies, criminal families, fallen gods, an ancient horror thirsting for vengeance ? when trouble comes looking for Jacob Burn, it doesn?t do half measures. Ah sounds fantastic, you had me on Clockwork Zombies though! The failed zeppelin pilot and outcast may have saved …
Could Hitler?s ultimate weapon be our hero?s nemesis? Time travelling Nazi terrorists, flailing steampunk fisticuffs, dapper swashbucklers facing Hammer Horrors from before they were born ? Ulysses Quicksilver may have travelled into the past, but has he bitten off more than he can chew? Preorder Now Release 12 May 2011 ? ?7.99 (UK) – ISBN …
Re:Wired is a young adult Steampunk novel. This new novel from Alex Keller follows from Haywired in which we first meet Ludwig von Guggenstein and his brother Hephaestus. Re-Wired starts with the kidnapping of Mandake von Guggenstein (the father of Ludwig and Hephastus) on the day of his execution. The race is on to find …