...tagged ‘steampunk fiction’

Fictoid: Welcome to New Asgard

From time to time — read: often — I’ve taken the opportunity to use this blog as a venue for my crazy writing schemes. Being the new year, I thought I’d continue the tradition and introduce you to my latest: The Weekly Fictoid. The plan is that each week I’ll be posting the results of an ongoing fiction project. And it’s really quite simple. It’s all based on an ongoing metaverse and story line I’ve been picking away at for quite some time, but haven’t posted much about. The summary-slash-teaser-slash-introduction goes as follows: Welcome to New Asgard, the city in the grass. It has been many years since its five unwitting founders built the first shelters in the rock barrens near the sea, and long [...]

Steampunk Anthology

Most of you like as not will not care, but if you’ve been salivating at the notion of more sporadic talk here about steampunk, et cetera, Jeff Vandermeer is offering via his blog personalized (read: signed and scribbled) copies of a new anthology he co-edited with his wife. I ordered mine. If you can’t wait, check out the magazine. I’ve discovered that they render very well on the new e-book reader — so I don’t even need to print them out!