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More Steampunk Links

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The editors of Fantasy Magazine bring us more steampunk links, including eye candy, an overview of steampunk, a web comic, and a forthcoming novel from Pyr.

More Steampunk Stocking Stuffers

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Fantasy Magazine has another list of steampunk links for your neo-Victorian holiday entertainment.

Steampunk Stocking Stuffer

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Fantasy Magazine has a list of steampunk links for your neo-Victorian holiday entertainment.

In Praise of the Corridor

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Via Daring Fireball: Martin Anderson praises the sci-fi corridor at Den of Geek.

Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they’re so utilitarian by nature - really they’re just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another.

More Steampunk

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At io9, a collection of short reviews of steampunk books covers the old, the new, and the forthcoming. Buy them if you see them, because they won’t be for sale at the upcoming SteamCon in October.

The Volcanic Origins of Science Fiction

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Via a mailing list: a somewhat vulgar Cracked story about 6 writers who accidentally produced masterpieces was funny but also educational. Who knew that the Year Without a Summer kept Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin indoors long enough to invent Frankenstein and by extension the entire genre?

Outshine

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The deadline for Jetse de Vries’ upcoming SHINE anthology (Solaris Books) has been extended to August 1st. See the website for ample advice in addition to the actual guidelines.

The twitter version, Outshine, seems to be tweeting strong. It has its own guidelines.