The Steampunk User's Manual

The Steampunk User's Manual
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-11-25
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1613127081

This comprehensive guide to Steampunk creations of all kinds offers inspiration and practical tips for bringing your own retro-futuristic visions to life. Whether you’re a newbie to the world of Steampunk, or a long-time enthusiast of airships, goggles, and mad scientists, The Steampunk User’s Manual is essential reading. The popular subgenre of science fiction has grown into a cultural movement; one that invites fans to let their imaginations go wild. In this volume, Jeff VanderMeer—the renowned expert in all things Steampunk—presents a practical and inspirational guidance for finding your own path into this realm. Including sections on art, fashion, architecture, crafts, music, performance, and storytelling, The Steampunk User's Manual provides a conceptual how-to guide on everything from the utterly doable to the completely over-the-top.

Steampunk LEGO

Steampunk LEGO
Author: Guy Himber
Publisher: No Starch Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1593275285

Filled with dirigibles and floating cities, penny-farthings and pirate ships, curiosities and robots galore, Steampunk LEGO is an illustrated collection of Victorian-era sci-fi treasures, all built from LEGO. Curated by award-winning LEGO builder and special effects master Guy Himber, this full-color coffee table book showcases an eclectic variety of models designed by dozens of the world’s best LEGO artists. Grab your brass goggles and join fictional explorer Sir Herbert Jobson as he travels the world cataloguing its technological wonders for Queen Victoria. His entertaining descriptions of an imaginative alternate history bring these delightful LEGO models to swashbuckling life.

The Mammoth Book of Steampunk

The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
Author: Sean Wallace
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2012-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780331355

An anthology focusing on newer elements of steampunk, one which deconstructs the staples of the genre and expands on them, rather than simply repeating them, with a greater spread both in terms of location and character. This is steampunk with a modern, post-colonial sensibility. Contributors include: Jeff VanderMeer, Caitlín Kiernan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cherie Priest, Cat Rambo, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine and many more.

Whimsical Steampunk

Whimsical Steampunk
Author: Thomas Peterson
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-21
Genre:
ISBN:

Whimsical Steampunk: Adult Coloring Book of Gears and Girls is a beautifully crafted coloring book that is good for anyone who loves the steampunk genre. This book is filled with intricate designs of gears, cogs, and other steampunk elements that will transport you to a world of fantasy and adventure. The book features 50 unique designs that are printed on high-quality paper, making it easy to color with a variety of mediums. Each page is perforated, so you can easily tear out your finished masterpiece and display it proudly. The designs in this book are inspired by the Victorian era, with a steampunk twist. You'll find beautiful women in corsets and top hats, mechanical animals, and intricate machinery. The designs are both whimsical and intricate, making them good for both beginners and experienced colorists. The book is designed to help you relax and unwind, with each page offering a new challenge and a new opportunity to express your creativity. Coloring has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, and this book is the good way to escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Whether you're a fan of steampunk or just love coloring, Whimsical Steampunk: Adult Coloring Book of Gears and Girls is the good addition to your collection. It's a great way to unwind after a long day, and it makes a wonderful present for anyone who loves art, fantasy, or steampunk. So why wait? Order your copy of Whimsical Steampunk: Adult Coloring Book of Gears and Girls today and start exploring the world of steampunk through the power of coloring!

Quantum Steampunk

Quantum Steampunk
Author: Nicole Yunger Halpern
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1421443724

"The science-fiction genre known as steampunk juxtaposes futuristic technologies with Victorian settings. This fantasy is becoming reality at the intersection of two scientific fields-twenty-first-century quantum physics and nineteenth-century thermodynamics, or the study of energy-in a discipline known as quantum steampunk"--

Creative Haven Steampunk Fashions Coloring Book

Creative Haven Steampunk Fashions Coloring Book
Author: Marty Noble
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2015-09-16
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486797481

Based on fashions from steampunk literature, 31 original designs combine Victorian-era clothing with goggles, clocks, and other technological accessories. The intricacy and post-apocalyptic air of the illustrations offer creatively challenging, unique coloring experiences.

The Immersion Book of Steampunk

The Immersion Book of Steampunk
Author: Gareth D. Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780956392442

Join the "Immersion Book of Steampunk" for an expedition through a new age of glorious industry. Encounter suffragette air-pirates, the art-deco terror of imperial skies, unwrap the bullet-proof magic of a cynical prince, or discover the dark, ensorcelled secrets of evolutionary public engineering.

The Steampunk Bible

The Steampunk Bible
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1613121660

“Wonderful essays on everything steampunk, written by well-known names in the movement who are living steampunk every day” (Wired.com). Steampunk—a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture—is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells through its most recent expression in movies such as Sherlock Holmes. Its adherents celebrate the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated airships and robots. A burgeoning DIY community has brought a distinctive Victorian-fantasy style to their crafts and art. Steampunk evokes a sense of adventure and discovery, and embraces extinct technologies as a way of talking about the future. This ultimate manual will appeal to aficionados and novices alike as author Jeff VanderMeer takes the reader on a wild ride through the clockwork corridors of Steampunk history. Praise for The Steampunk Bible “An informed, informative and beautifully illustrated survey of the subject.” —The Financial Times “The Steampunk Bible is far and away the most intriguing catalog of all things steam yet written.” —The Austin Chronicle

Whimsical Industrial

Whimsical Industrial
Author: Mitchell Richardson
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-23
Genre:
ISBN:

Whimsical Industrial: A Steampunk Girl Coloring Book is a unique and captivating coloring book that will transport you to a world of fantasy and adventure. This book is good for anyone who loves steampunk, industrial design, and whimsical illustrations. The book features 30 intricate and detailed illustrations of steampunk girls in various settings, from airships and factories to clockwork gardens and mechanical forests. Each page is filled with intricate details and patterns that will keep you engaged for hours. The illustrations are printed on high-quality paper that is good for coloring with a variety of mediums, including colored pencils, markers, and watercolors. The pages are also perforated, so you can easily tear them out and display your finished artwork. In addition to the beautiful illustrations, Whimsical Industrial: A Steampunk Girl Coloring Book also includes inspiring quotes and sayings that will encourage you to embrace your creativity and imagination. The book is designed to help you relax and unwind, while also stimulating your mind and sparking your creativity. Whether you are a seasoned artist or a beginner, Whimsical Industrial: A Steampunk Girl Coloring Book is the good way to explore your creativity and indulge in your love of steampunk and industrial design. So why wait? Order your copy today and start coloring your way to a world of adventure and imagination!

Steampunk London

Steampunk London
Author: Helena Esser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2024-07-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350433918

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.