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Something
strange is happening. Out there, outside of genre publishing,
outside of science fiction and fantasy, there appears to be
a resurgence of interest in steampunk and ‘fantastic Victoriana’.
Steampunk has become a fashion accessory, a lifestyle...MORE
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Didactic Chat: Bruce
Sterling |
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When I first set out to find Bruce Sterling, I thought that it would never happen.
Surely, a guy who has written the seminal -punk anything book, whether it be cyber-,
steam-, or (I kid you not) monkey-, would have better things to do with his time. Yet Bruce responded to my query immediately with a casual, “What's on your mind?”...MORE |
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Snatched
Moments #2 |
| In each issue of Matrix,
we will attempt to bring you an ‘in brief’
interview with someone of interest to the SF community.
The subject of our second
‘Snatched Moments’
column is Science Fiction author, Eric Brown...MORE
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Steaming Celluloid |
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There are, I suppose, cases to be made for Hollywood seriously molesting every outcropping
of science fiction at one time or another. But few of the branches on the sf tree
can have been so comprehensively battered as steampunk. Think, for a moment, of
the vast swathes of cash and human endeavour thrown at the screen in films like
Wild Wild West, The League of Gentlemen...MORE |
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Pump Up The Volume: The
Sound of Steampunk |
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While continuing to pay homage to its literary origins, noughties’ Steampunk has
evolved into a veritable subculture in its own right. Dark aesthetics, combined
with a flare for antique fashion, laboratorial curiosities, cybernetics, and the
reengineering of all manner of rogue mechanicals, were always destined to appeal
to the goth, punk, cyber and industrial contingent...MORE |
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True Brit |
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British heroes are making a return, with three classic characters staging a comeback
onto the UK sequential art market: Daniel McGregor Dare, Bill Savage and James Bigglesworth.
Dan Dare, Savage and Biggles. They are quintessentially British characters originally
from the fifties, seventies and thirties respectively...MORE |
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Best SF Movies - 1950s |
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So by now anyone still following this round-up of the Best Ever…! Science Fiction
films of the past glorious decades since the inception of the BSFA should have built
up quite a tidy little DVD collection. Back at the beginning of this time-traveling
trip to the collective memory bank it was my intention to gather together and chart
the progress of science fiction media (and here I really think we...MORE |
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Seduction of the Innocent 10 |
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Six years ago, a three issue horror miniseries hit the comic shops shelves with
a resounding, splattering thud. Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith were suddenly catapulted
into comic books stardom with 30 Days of Night, and both have continued
to work in the industry to much acclaim...MORE |
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Access All Areas: Social networking...friend
or foe? |
| Why is it that every website I visit
at the moment seems to be either a blog or a social
networking site? Not that there is anything wrong
with blogs or social networks, but it does beg the
question where will it all end? Every other day
a new social networking or Web 2.0 (see wiki
link for more info) website pops up, offering
a ‘new’ way of socialising – or,
as we cynics see it, a new way of...MORE |
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