Steampunk—a
grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various
forms of science-fiction culture—is a phenomenon that has come to
influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible
is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the
works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells through its most recent expression
in movies such as Sherlock Holmes.
Its adherents celebrate the inventor as an artist and hero,
re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated
airships and robots. A burgeoning DIY community has brought a
distinctive Victorian-fantasy style to their crafts and art. Steampunk
evokes a sense of adventure and discovery, and embraces extinct
technologies as a way of talking about the future. This ultimate manual
will appeal to aficionados and novices alike as author Jeff VanderMeer
takes the reader on a wild ride through the clockwork corridors of
Steampunk history.
Co-author
S. J. Chambers along with Steampunk artists and makers Jake von Slatt,
Mike Libby, Aleks Sennwald, and Steampunk scholar Jess Nivens will give a
multimedia presentation from The Steampunk Bible. Jake von Slatt and Mike Libby will present sculptures, and Aleks Sennwald will project her paintings.
S.J.
Chambers’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in a variety of
publications, including Fantasy, the Baltimore Sun’s Read Street blog,
Yankee Pot Roast, Tor.com (where she first aired her Steampunk Poe
ideas), and Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s forthcoming anthology Thackery T.
Lambshead’s Cabinet of Curiosities. She is the articles senior editor at
Strange Horizons, a devot Poepathist, a member of the Poe Studies
Association, and a regular reviewer for Bookslut.com.
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