Traveler | 14. Juni 2010
Another Steampunk Holiday! Today in 1822 Charles Babbage submitted a paper to the Royal Society in which he described his now famed difference engine. This most marvellous exampel of 19th century high-tech has since become a staple and icon of the Steampunk community. Just imagine what could have happened, if it would have been finished [...]
Traveler | 13. Juni 2010
I could not finish my Neil Gaiman week without mentioning The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Gris Grimly. This is such a delightful piece of weird childrens’ literature. It is perfect for the Gothic Nursery, it is sweet, intense, heroic and: it has a few disinctly Dieselpunk and Steampunk elements in it. [...]
Traveler | 13. Juni 2010
When I first read I, Cthulhu, I did not get the joke. Looking back now, I am at a loss to explain how I managed that. This short piece of fiction is so obviously tongue-in-cheek, with so many weird references that make no sense within the classic Cthulhu Mythos, I really do not know why [...]
Traveler | 12. Juni 2010
Well, this is the second to last day of Neil Gaiman Week and it hurts to know that I will not be able at all to fit all the stuff in I originally wanted to do. There is simply too much great stuff around to cover in one week. Oh well, the review of American [...]
Traveler | 11. Juni 2010
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman is rightly called the “graphic novel that transformed a genre” (see the video in my first entry for Neil Gaiman Week). For me, it is transformative in an additional way. It helped molding the”new me”. I do not recall when and where exactly I first heard of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, it was [...]
Traveler | 10. Juni 2010
I really regret not having had time yet to actually read the book behind this most excellent movie, but I am sure I will get round to it eventually. When a friend of mine (Timo, my main collaborator for internet weirdness on this blog) and me went to see it, I only knew that it [...]
Traveler | 9. Juni 2010
The Books of Magic were, after Sandman, the second graphic novel touched by Neil Gaiman, I read. I was hoping it would develop into a similar epic Sandman turned into. It did, but after Gaiman left as a story-writer, it was not the same. Still, even in the comparatively few pages I read, there is [...]
Traveler | 8. Juni 2010
My friend Daliah Jane of Upon a Midnight Dreary has kindly agreed to provide a piece for my Neil Gaiman Week, for which I am very greatful. So here are her thoughts on Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book: There are few more pleasant ways to spend an afternoon than among the crumbling headstones of an [...]
Traveler | 8. Juni 2010
A few weeks back, Tiffany Kelly of Quirk Classics invited me to do a review of Android Karenina. Being a literature enthusiast, I could not say no. So here’s my review of yet another great Steampunk novel. Android Karenina by Ben Winters is a Steampunk take on Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel and in deed, the [...]
Traveler | 7. Juni 2010
Today is the first day of Neil Gaiman Week on this blog. I decided doing this special feature for several reasons: By Jove! Neil Gaiman is awesome! Neil Gaiman’s Sandman is an integral part of my time in Nottingham being as enjoyable as it was. There are enough Steampunk elements in his various works to [...]
I am an anthropologist and in this capacity a minor scholar of the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft. I am also quite obviously heavily into Steampunk and Dieselpunk and like travelling.
More about me can be found here and also here (in German).
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