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Imaginary Realms The Illustrated Steampunk Guide To Airships Gadgets And Victorian Wonders
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Author : Ronda Hodges
language : en
Publisher: MIECO LLC
Release Date : 2025-04-06
Imaginary Realms The Illustrated Steampunk Guide To Airships Gadgets And Victorian Wonders written by Ronda Hodges and has been published by MIECO LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-06 with Science categories.
Embark on a breathtaking journey into the intricate world of steampunk with "Imaginary Realms: The Illustrated Steampunk Guide to Airships, Gadgets, and Victorian Wonders." This captivating volume transports you to a realm where Victorian aesthetics meet fantastical machinery, where airships soar through the skies, and gadgets defy the laws of nature. From the majestic grandeur of airships to the intricate mechanisms of steampunk gadgets, this book is a visual feast for fans of both art and history. Lavish illustrations bring the enigmatic world of steampunk to life, capturing the essence of its Victorian roots and its boundless imagination. Immerse yourself in chapters dedicated to the iconic symbols of steampunk: towering airships, ingenious contraptions, and the enigmatic figures who inhabit this extraordinary realm. Discover the secrets behind the construction of these magnificent vessels, delve into the workings of fascinating gadgets, and witness the transformation of everyday objects into extraordinary inventions. This book not only showcases the artistry and creativity of steampunk but also explores its cultural significance. It traces the evolution of steampunk from its literary origins to its widespread influence on art, fashion, and technology.
Jules Verne Lives
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Author : Gary Westfahl
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-07-05
Jules Verne Lives written by Gary Westfahl and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume is a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne, the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer. Essays study Verne's various novels--including Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island and The Adventures of Captain Hatteras. Included essays offer analyses of literary responses to Verne's work, assessments of film adaptations of his novels and discussions of steampunk, the Verne-inspired science fiction subgenre that has influenced writers like Philip Jose Farmer, Caleb Carr and Adam Roberts.
Neo Victorianism And Medievalism
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-04-30
Neo Victorianism And Medievalism written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bringing together neo-Victorian and medievalism scholars in dialogue with each other for the first time, this collection of essays foregrounds issues common to both fields. The Victorians reimagined the medieval era and post-Victorian medievalism repurposes received nineteenth century tropes, as do neo-Victorian texts. For example, aesthetic movements such as Arts and Crafts, which looked for inspiration in the medieval era, are echoed by steampunk in its return to Victorian dress and technology. Issues of gender identity, sexuality, imperialism and nostalgia arise in both neo-Victorianism and medievalism, and analysis of such texts is enriched and expanded by the interconnections between the two fields represented in this groundbreaking collection.
Over Excessive Ambition As Reflected In Three Science Fiction Novels Frankenstein Solaris And Infernal Devices
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Author : KHULOD H. HUSAIN
language : en
Publisher: KY Publications
Release Date : 2021-08-05
Over Excessive Ambition As Reflected In Three Science Fiction Novels Frankenstein Solaris And Infernal Devices written by KHULOD H. HUSAIN and has been published by KY Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with Fiction categories.
This book attempts to explore the emergence of science fiction as a genre and its development into steampunk as a subgenre of science fiction in selected science fiction novels: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1823), Stanislaw Lem's Solaris (1970) and K. W. Jeter's Infernal Devices (1987). This research shows that the scientists in these novels drag themselves into darkness. Victor, the protagonists of Frankenstein, is an ambition scientist who wants to conquer death but tragically loses his family during this endeavor. Kelvin, the hero of Solaris, is psychologically devastated when he struggles to understand how Solaris ocean creates a simulation of people. The hero of the third novel, George Dewar's father, a mad scientist and inventor, creates a double of his own son as a robot tries to destroy the earth. The main argument of this research is that all these novels set in different eras draw on science fiction to criticize and question man's greedy and unrestricted desire for scientific discovery to the extent that they want to conquer the universe and play the role of God. The study will ask the following questions: How do the ambitious scientists in the novels drag themselves into madness? And how does the scientific desire turn into a crave for transcendence bringing about their damnation? What do these scientific explorations and inventions reveal about human nature? Does steampunk bring evolution to the future as a sub-genre of science fiction?
Terry Pratchett S Ethical Worlds
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Author : Kristin Noone
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-08-05
Terry Pratchett S Ethical Worlds written by Kristin Noone and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination. It constructs an ethical stance that values informed and self-aware choices, knowledge of the world in which one makes those choices, the importance of play and humor in crafting a compassionate worldview, and acts of continuous self-examination and creation. This collection of essays uses inventiveness and creation as a thematic core to combine normally disparate themes, such as science fiction studies, the effect of collaborative writing and shared authorship, steampunk aesthetics, productive modes of "ownership," intertextuality, neomedievalism and colonialism, adaptations into other media, linguistics and rhetorics, and coming of age as an act of free will.
Steampunk Faq
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Author : Mike Perschon
language : en
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Release Date : 2018
Steampunk Faq written by Mike Perschon and has been published by Backbeat Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Fiction categories.
(FAQ). "What is steampunk?" Going beyond the standard default definitions of "Victorian science fiction," "yesterday's tomorrow today," or some other equally vague or limited description, Steampunk FAQ provides a historical exploration of its literary and cinematic origins. The journey begins with a look at steampunk's genesis in the novels and short stories of three Californians who hung out a lot with Philip K. Dick, before moving on to the inspirations and antecedents of steampunk. Contrary to what many articles and books say, steampunk's direct inspiration is arguably far more cinematic than literary, a likely reaction to the many film adaptations, pastiches, and knockoffs of the scientific romances of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. While Verne, Wells, and a host of other Victorian and Edwardian writers have influenced steampunk fiction, cinematic elements from films such as Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and George Pal's Time Machine (1960) show up more often as immediate influences on the style we call steampunk. In offering a celebration of steampunk's style and cultural aesthetic, Steampunk FAQ also explores its connection to cyberpunk, the world of fashion, comics, and culture around the world.
The Machine Anxieties Of Steampunk
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Author : Kathe Hicks Albrecht
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2021-11-04
The Machine Anxieties Of Steampunk written by Kathe Hicks Albrecht and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-04 with Art categories.
What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Old-fashioned eye goggles, lace corsets, leather vests, brass gears and gadgets, mechanical clocks, the look appears across popular culture, in movies, art, fashion, and literature. But steampunk is both an aesthetic program and a way-of-life and its underlying philosophy is the key to its broad appeal. Steampunk champions a new autonomy for the individual caught up in today's technology-driven society. It expresses optimism for the future but it also delivers a note of caution about our human role in a world of ever more ubiquitous and powerful machines. Thus, despite adopting an aesthetic and lifestyle straight out of the Victorian scientific romance, steampunk addresses significant 21st-century concerns about what lies ahead for humankind. The movement recovers autonomy from prevailing trends even as it challenges us to ask what it is to be human today.
Steampunk London
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Author : Helena Esser
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-07-25
Steampunk London written by Helena Esser and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between neo-Victorianism, urban spaces and Steampunk. Characterised by its interplay between past and present and its anachronistic retro-speculation, Neo-Victorian-infused Steampunk remixes modern collective memory to produce a re-imagined vision of Victorian London. Investigating how Steampunk's re-calibrated Londons both source from and subvert Victorian discourse about the city, Steampunk London offers a deeper understanding of how a popular cultural memory of the Victorian past is shaped and transmitted in light of present-day identity politics. Covering key themes including retrofuturism, gender and sexuality, colonialism and postcolonialism, it considers such ideas as how early Steampunk synthesizes Victorian urban ethnography; how Victorian urban Gothic shapes shared transmedia memory to challenge reactionary, nostalgic meta-narratives; how Steampunk video games mobilize urban space as an immersive storytelling device with cities open to play; and how Steampunk interprets the modern metropolis as an opportunity for feminist and queer agency. Through examination of Victorian-era writers from Charles Dickens to Arthur Conan Doyle, the book digs into works of fiction and media alike, looking at The Difference Engine, Soulless, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, cyberpunk classic Blade Runner, and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and The Order 1886. An important intervention in the study of steampunk, Helena Esser demonstrates how the works explored invite participatory consumption and considers the genre's potential- and failures- to interrogate and challenge our relationship with the Victorian past.
Steampunk
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Author : Claire Nally
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-06-27
Steampunk written by Claire Nally and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with Social Science categories.
What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective. In her interdisciplinary book, Claire Nally delves into this contemporary subculture, explaining how the fashion, music, visual culture, literature and politics of steampunk intersect with theories of gender and sexuality. Exploring and occasionally critiquing the ways in which gender functions in the movement, she addresses a range of different issues, including the controversial trope of the Victorian asylum; gender and the graphic novel; the legacies of colonialism; science and the role of Ada Lovelace as a feminist steampunk icon. Drawing upon interviews, theoretical readings and textual analysis, Nally asks: why are steampunks fascinated by our Victorian heritage, and what strategies do they use to reinvent history in the present?
The Anarchists Guide To The Bay Area
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Author : Buckner Thompson
language : en
Publisher: AL Press
Release Date : 2022-12-03
The Anarchists Guide To The Bay Area written by Buckner Thompson and has been published by AL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-03 with Social Science categories.
Susie Os and the independent publishing house, AL Press are proud to present their first book in a series on Direct Democracy, Political Activism and Personal Freedom. The neo-conservative gun-toting minority has high-jacked the Republican Party, the United States Supreme Court as well as the language and terminology of freedom, but AL Press is here to help YOU fight back. While violent white supremacists and hard-core evangelicals with the assistance of talking heads and masters of propaganda like Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson have subverted the very basic principles of the United States to strip average, hard-working Americans of their fundamental rights, the 'silent majority' of freedom-loving and proud Americans can no longer stay SILENT. But how do you protest inside a increasingly oppressive, militaristic and violent society? How do you stay safe when your very life may be at the whim of a heavily armed racist police officer recruited into a position of authority by his white supremacist overlords and protected from prosecution by an ever more corrupt judicial system? RESIST. It is the only ethical and moral option, and this is the book the government doesn’t want you to have. AL Press - Independent Publishing at it's best. Susie Os and Bonny Freedom are the editors of the first in a series of books on political activism and personal freedom. This book along with several others at AL Press follow a long tradition of promoting literary freedom as protected by the United States constitution. However, due to recent challenges, and post-9/11 censorship, the authors and AL Publishing are currently writing under pseudonyms for their own protection.