Ciphers

Sometimes dreams to come true, and you get what you wished for.

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Basking in the aura (the unreproducible essence) of the original art work, is important because Di Filippo is a steampunk man, even when he’s writing erotic sci-fi like A Mouthful of Tongues.
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Dirigibles, brass goggles, automata, submarines, and other steampun genre tropes

When I was a child my entrepreneur father moved us around a lot. Mostly we ended up in places where everyone spoke Spanish, from Mexico to Spain.  Read more »

See my guest blog on Steampunk and the recent movie Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, on Alicia Rasley's excellent blog on everything a writer needs to know.

I've been working on a steampunk western romance tentatively entitled The Separation of the Senses. Although I've been a fan of steampunk since I first started reading Jules Verne in the 1960s, once I actually started writing my own work I wanted to immerse myself in steampunk worlds completely. The best way to do that, of course, is to watch movies. But figuring out which movies to watch was not so easy, as there is wide disagreement on what exactly constitutes Steampunk. For what is is worth, here is my list. Agreements, disagreements, additions and evidence to support arguments for subtractions are all welcome.  Read more »

Sam Waterston has recorded the narration for Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs and we are now in the final phases of post-production.

Alison McMahan will give a lecture on the films of Alice Guy Blaché at the Festival du Films des Femmes in Brussels on September 22nd.