Steampunk

  • Gideon Smith and The Mechanical Girl by David Barnett

    I really enjoy reading Steampunk and I have reviewed one or two here on my blog. Not every author captures the essence of the alternative Victorian technology and society as well as David Barnett does in Gideon Smith and The Mechanical Girl. So, what is this book about? Gideon Smith is the son of a…

  • Super Dooper Bestest Ever Blog Post™

    It doesn’t seem a year since the rubbish poem I wrote to celebrate my 50th birthday, but here we are, March 15th and I’m 51. Fifty-one. Good Gawd Almighty! How did that happen? I know they say time passes quickly when you’re having fun, but I haven’t laughed that much, even if the increase in…

  • Automatic Woman by Nathan L Yocum

    If you can imagine Sherlock Holmes written by Micky Spillane and set against a steampunk alternative Victorian London, you’d maybe begin to understand the fascinating universe in which Nathan L Yocum’s book, Automatic Woman, takes place. Jolly, a rotund detective from the Bow Street Firm, finds himself drawn into a very strange case when an…

  • Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine

    When I was a wee girl my parents used to take me to see the circus at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow every Christmas. I vividly remember the smells: sawdust, animals and cotton candy, and the other kids laughing at the freakishly frightening clowns. I remember the noises; the trumpeting, roaring otherworldliness of it all…