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small WORLD podcast|SteamPunk Magazine Episode
This episode is work safe.SteamPunk Magazine is a publication that is dedicated to promoting steampunk as a culture, as more than a sub-category of fiction. It is a journal of fashion, music, misapplied technology and chaos. And fiction.Interview with Magpie, founder of SteamPunk Magazine.We discuss how steampunk is; the difference between cyberpunk and science fiction written in the Victorian era; what kind of magazine SteamPunk magazine is and how it began; the essay Colonizing the Past So We Can Dream the Future; how often SteamPunk magazine is published; the mention of the magazine in Boing Boing and other blogs; William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's book, The Difference Engine; why steampunk has become so popular; Michael Moorcock's books, Nomad of the Time Streams and The Dancers at the End of Time; the steampunk lifestyle; why the "punk" in steampunk is so controversial; th contradiction of being unimpressed with the Information Age while at the same time having an antiquarian fascination with the Industrial Age when both periods went through so much dramatic change; The Catastraphone Orchestra and Art Collective of New York City; the explosion of creativity and diversity in the 21st century; articles and stories that appear in the first issue of SteamPunk Magazine.Featured song is "The Perils of Empire" by Darcy James Argue's Secret Society.
[ Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 ]
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