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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.

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

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

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.

Via Futurismic: a hundred years ago last month, the New York Times reported that the Postmaster General would not be buying up local pneumatic tube systems for the transport of the mail.

Via del.icio.us sf: Steampunk, an anthology by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, came out from Tachyon Publications in June. This month there’s an interview with the editors in Genre Chicks, which includes Jeff’s handy definition of steampunk:

Really classic steampunk is about a few things: the rise of the inventor or scientist as hero, the use of retro-technology (think, alternate history: technologies, like airships, that once seemed poised to be dominant), and then the introduction of irony to the idea of scientist as hero, in showing how unquestioning use of technology leads to disaster.

From the Steampunk files (via GeekPress) comes the amazing rPhone.