Free the Princess: Can't ... stop ... laughing

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Can't ... stop ... laughing

So a burglar in Salem, Oregon, got arrested while only wearing the underwear of the woman he tried to rob. Mind you, the best part of this Boston Globe story is not that the burglar was arrested while in ladies clothing, or that he had piles of the stuff in his garage down the street ... no, the best part is that in the laundry list of charges at the end the 47-year-old suspect got charged with possession of illegal fireworks.

Yeah ... 'nuff said.

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What is This Thing Called Steampunk Anyway?

Steampunk, in its most simple definition, is a type of fiction that places contemporary technology in the Victorian Era with Coal (and thus Steam) as the primary power source instead of Gas or Electricity.

Wikipedia defines it as "works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used — usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era Britain — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy." Mike Perschon, The Steampunk Scholar, calls it "an aesthetic that mixes elements of technofantasy, and neo-Victorian retrofuturism."

At Free the Princess, I subscribe to both definitions. Defining Steampunk isn't my concern though: telling you the information needed to write it is. And here I give you this practical literary guide to writing Steampunk. The guide may occasionally deviate into commentary on events in the community, but hopefully not too often.