Oh good grief yes – a while ago I read the book, Larklight by Philip Reeve (and David Wyatt) and found it to be utterly marvelous! A rip roaring Steampunk adventure of brave young upstanding members of the British Empire thrown into adventure when giant space spiders kidnap their aetherfish studying father from their [...]

Though it’s terrible to show off, I am pleased as punch that I’ve managed to get myself one of the limited edition miniature Man Melter rayguns from Weta that were on sale at Comic Con.  It is all down to the very kind offer and actions of Mr La Grasta who offered to be my [...]

Mr Stephen writes to let me know that he is involved with a play being shown at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival until the 18th of this month called “Dr. Stein” by Leitheatre.  Telling the tale of what happened after the end of Ms Shelly’s story of Doctor Frankenstein, where the Doctor of the tale finds [...]

The internet seems afire with talk of this marvelously crafted Monowheel replica of a 1873 design, that was up on Ebay briefly. The description sounds auto-translated, but loses none of its facination for that and you can find it in full after the cut. Basically though, a French design from 1873 recreated with [...]

Oh Mr Max – you’ve found the most beautiful Steampunk things!  Above is one of five Adding Machines created by Mr Andy Aaron at Aaron Adding Machines – and they are perfectly stunning.  From the site itself:
“By means of an Aaron Adding Machine, a person entirely ignorant of Arithmetic, may perform tabulations such as Addition, [...]

While Stardust, the film, may be out in the US, I must wait a little while longer before the airship of Captain Shakespeare can brave the skies of the Atlantic and bring it to the UK shores.  However, in the meantime, I can amuse myself with the background information about the antics of the air [...]

Over at BoingBoing, they’ve posted about a simply lovely, somewhat Heath-Robinson looking clock created by Flickr user Amahl_Shukup.  With a working telegraph key, parts of a Model-T Ford, and a 1910’s clock surround, it’s got some wonderful parts that make a simply stunning whole.  It even tells time!  *chuckles*  Wonderful stuff, and I’m sure it’ll [...]

Several of you will have noticed that Mr Datamancer has been featured in a Wall Street Journal Online video on Steampunk!  Congratulations, Mr Datamancer – it’s a great interview and your workshop is most certainly to be envied!  With particular focus on the lovely Steampunk laptop that he’s been putting a great deal of love [...]

The Raku Rayguns of West Magoon have been posted about before, and some of you may have seen them at Comic-Con recently, but there are several new additions to the line including the above, Narwhal inspired Mothra Transmogrifier!  This particular raygun is headed to Japan for the 65th World Science Fiction Convention at the end [...]

Well, this is a definitely interesting idea – using the thermoelectric effect from a small burner to charge batteries. I mean, I realise this is really what is going on when we plug a battery charger into the wall, but it’s still unusual to see it in such a small contained form – especially [...]