Tag: Steampunk
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The Portal Closes: Looking Back @ GenCon
Imagine 50,000 people packed into a single indoor space. Now add a 20-foot tall Cthulhu (made entirely of balloons), a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (in a top hat, no less), armies of warriors and monsters, and a roster of top sf and fantasy writers. Yes, it got crowded. But that’s GenCon. Never mind that the…
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The Portal Opens: GenCon Preview, Part 2
The portal opens, and for one week the city changes, reality morphs, fantasy rules. The event is GenCon, the massive fantasy and science fiction gaming convention that takes over Indianapolis each August. Attendance this year is projected to break past records, which were well beyond 40,000 attendees. Part of the event is the GenCon Writer’s…
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Airships and Sherlock Holmes
The master sleuth and Master of the World. What’s not to love? The World Fantasy Convention has just released its program schedule for 2011, one that offers an impressive blend of topics centering on this year’s theme: Sailing the Seas of Imagination. At the con, I’ll be joining a discussion about airships and reading from my latest Sherlock Holmes…