Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
Governor
Master Tinkerer
 United Kingdom
Herr Döktor, and friend.
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« on: November 06, 2012, 01:56:33 pm » |
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Dear Old Fortean times has an interesting article about Steampunk: a well researched potted history of the genre from it's start in fiction up to it's crossover into the 'real' world. Brassgoggles also gets a mention.  |
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Capt. Dirigible
Rogue Ætherlord
United Kingdom
Shirts?.....I got plenty at 'ome.
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« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2012, 02:45:08 pm » |
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Oooh! That's one of the regular journals we get here at the library. I shall keep an eye out for that.
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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Rockula
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« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2012, 03:18:00 pm » |
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I rarely buy this tome anymore. But as I'm off to the shop to do the lottery I might as well pick one up.  |
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The legs have fallen off my Victorian Lady...
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Mr Peter Harrow, Esq
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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 03:35:47 pm » |
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I usually buy it, so will look on with interest. There is a bit of cross fertilisation between Forteana and Steampunk in my own stuff e.g. Steampunk Vampire Hunting Kit, Feejee Mermaid etc.
And Herr Doktor? No mention of you or does modesty forbid?
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Proudly giving the entire Asylum The Finger!
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Gaijin_King
Deck Hand
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Sci-fi author
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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2012, 12:20:59 am » |
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LOL at Dennis Hopper's alien encounter. Not sure why I find that funny....
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Mr Peter Harrow, Esq
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« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2012, 07:43:52 am » |
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Because it would have been just as strange for the aliens!
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Prof Marvel
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« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2012, 08:10:37 am » |
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LOL at Dennis Hopper's alien encounter. Not sure why I find that funny....
Dennis Hopper is well known for having turned up naked, in a drug-addled stuper, on a hiway in the middle of New Mexico once upon a time.... yhs prof marvel |
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Professor Marvel's Traveling Apothecary and Fortune Telling Emporium
Purveyor of Patent Remedies, Snake Oil, Cleaning Supplies, Dry Goods, and Picture Postcards
Supplying useless advise for All Occasions
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TheDeeMan
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« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2012, 11:46:37 am » |
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I've never heard of this magazine before.
Dee
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
Governor
Master Tinkerer
United Kingdom
Herr Döktor, and friend.
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« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2012, 04:11:45 pm » |
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I've never heard of this magazine before.
Dee
And..? |
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Capt. Dirigible
Rogue Ætherlord
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Shirts?.....I got plenty at 'ome.
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« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2012, 04:16:04 pm » |
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I've never heard of this magazine before.
Dee
And..? Although, strangely, Fortean Times has heard of The DeeMan (cue Twilight Zone theme) |
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Gaijin_King
Deck Hand
United States
Sci-fi author
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« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2012, 12:37:22 am » |
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I've never heard of it either. I think it's because we're Yanks.
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Atterton
Master Tinkerer
Only The Shadow knows
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« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2012, 12:50:40 am » |
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It's worth picking up a copy or two of this magazine.
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In space, no one can hear you steam.
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Athanor
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« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2012, 04:47:30 am » |
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If you're interested in cryptozoology, weird science and technology, ghosts, UFOs, etc., Fortean Times is probably the best magazine around. It generally strikes an intelligently sceptical middle course between the "Gee-whiz-how-awesome, my-baby was-fathered-by-an-alien" kind of wide-eyed wacko gullibility, and the Skeptical Inquirer-type "we already know all the laws of the Universe, so what you claim to have seen didn't happen" kind of armchair debunkery. Past issues have included articles on Conan Doyle, Houdini, Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, timewarps, mermaids, haunted inns, vampires, vampire-hunting kits.... there are also book, film and game reviews (no punches pulled), readers' letters, short news reports on odd happenings such as fishfalls, ice meteorites, odd inventions, two-headed snakes, six-legged frogs.... all excellent Steampunk source material. I never miss an issue if I can help it. http://www.forteantimes.com/ Athanor. |
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The Mutant must be tested severely before being allowed to remake the world in its own image.
"Truly I say to you, he who seeks, shall find. And quite often, he shall wish he hadn't."
- Elias Ashmole Crackbone O'Finnerty, "The Aphorisms of Fud". from "The Lesser Precepts", Collected Works, Vol.23, page 666; Miskatonic University Press, Arkham, Mass., 1999 (reprint)
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Mercury Wells
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« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2012, 05:24:40 am » |
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Not forgeting the "The Illustrated Police News (Law Courts & Weekly Record)"* articles. The current one is about Vincent de Groof the flying man (sorry about the lack of info). Maybe someone in the Lowlands can find more info about him? Sometimes the articles are quite SP. *AKA the "worst newspaper in England". So it's one up on the current/modern DMail then? |
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