It's President's Day! Celebrate the history of our Commander in Chief with these excerpts and reviews of 8 great presidential mysteries. The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy by Jacopo Della Quercia is a historical-fiction, steampunk, sci-fi, comedy-noir mashup that features a globetrotting President Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln.…
With the digital libraries of online streaming services expanding more and more, choosing which movie to watch has become difficult. I will be digging through these online queues in hopes of bringing you a movie worth your time. Up first is Snowpiercer, a steampunk action film directed by Joon-ho Bong and starring Chris Evans and…
This is an online-exclusive bonus, an early glimpse into the clandestine characters in Jacopo della Quercia's The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy, a historical-fiction, steampunk, sci-fi, comedy-noir mashup that features a globetrotting President Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln (available August 5, 2014). This historical thriller is an equal-parts cocktail of action, adventure, science-fiction and…
With three technical Oscars for Pan’s Labyrinth under his belt, Guillermo del Toro returned to Hollywood with the clout necessary to finally have full creative control on a project. (It’s harder to argue with a filmmaker when he’s got an Academy Award in the hand not holding the camera.) Eager to return to one of…
Following the box office success of Blade II, it wasn’t a surprise when Guillermo del Toro announced his next film would also be a comic book adaptation. At the time, the Dark Horse series Hellboy was hardly as recognizable as DC or Marvel franchises like Batman and The X-Men. But Mike Mignola’s gothic comic about…
The Curse of the Brimstone Contract by Corrina Lawson is the Steampunk Detectives series debut, featuring a woman who learns she possesses magical abilities after a garment of her design kills a client (available April 29, 2014). Joan Krieger is very excited to present her new clothing creations to the fashion forward Lady Grey, but…
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The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes by George Mann is a collection of short stories detailing the supernatural steampunk adventures of detective duo, Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes in dark and dangerous Victorian London (available September 24, 2013). This was the first of George Mann’s books that I’ve read, and what caught my…
A Study in Silks by Emma Jane Holloway is the debut mystery featuring the niece of Sherlock Holmes, Evelina Cooper, in a fantastic Victorian Era of ruthless steam barons, steampunk machinery, and sorcerers as the enemies of the crown (available September 24, 2013). A Study in Silks, a debut novel by Emma Jane Holloway, is…
The Aylesford Skull by James P. Blaylock marks the author’s return to steampunk with an adventure featuring Victorian gentleman and inventor Langdon St. Ives (available January 15, 2013). It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives—brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer—is coming to enjoy country life in Aylesford with his beloved wife…
