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Steampunk 
Simultaneously a literary movement, ultra-hip subculture and burgeoning cottage industry, Steampunk is the most influential new genre to emerge from the late twentieth century. Spinning tales populated with clockwork Leviathans, cannon-shots to the moon and coal-fired robots, it charts alternative histories in which the British Empire never fell or where the atom remained unsplit. Spectacularly illustrated and international in scope, this comprehensive history explores Steampunk’s many intricate expressions in fiction, cinema, television, comics and videogames, and traces its evolution into a truly global aesthetic, which has made its mark on art, architecture, fashion and even music. From the classic scientific romances of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley, through the dystopian futurescapes of Cyberpunk, to the otherworldly imaginings of Hayao Miyazaki, Alan Moore and China Mieville, author Brian J. Robb sets the key works of Steampunk squarely under the lens of his brass monocle and ventures into a world where airships still rule the skies.
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Posted by Notcot on Jul 10, 2012 in
Steampunk 
Bestselling romance editor Trisha Telep brings an exciting new element to the fast-growing sub-genre of steampunk, which bends and blends the old and the new in increasingly popular dark urban fantasies. Young heroes and heroines battle evil, in various forms with the help of super-technological or supernatural powers, while falling in and out of love. The contributors include: Ann Aguirre a bestselling author who writes urban fantasy (the “Corine Solomon” series from Roc), romantic science fiction (the “Jax” series from Ace), apocalyptic paranormal romance (as Ellen Connor, writing with Carrie Lofty, from Penguin), paranormal romantic suspense (as “Ava Gray from Berkley”), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction (“Razorland and Wireville” coming in 2011 from Feiwel & Friends). Tessa Gratton, her debut novel “Blood Magic” arrives in 2011 from Random House Children’s Books, followed by the companion “Crow Magic” in 2012. Jaclyn Dolamore is the debut author of “Magic Under Glass” from Bloomsbury USA. Lesley Livingston is the award-winning author of “Wondrous Strange and Darklight”, the first two books in the bestselling trilogy from HarperCollins.Frewin Jones is the bestselling author of the “Faerie Path” series and the “Warrior Princess” books, among many others. Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the “Iron Codex” trilogy, a Lovecraftian steampunk adventure. Dru Pagliassotti’s first novel “Clockwork Heart” was one of the first in the rising new genre of steampunk romance and was named by “Library Journal” as one of the five steampunk novels to read in 2009. Dia Reeves is the debut author of the critically acclaimed “YA Bleeding Violet”. Michael Scott is the Irish-born, “New York Times” bestselling author of the six part epic fantasy series, “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”. Maria V. Snyder is the “New York Times” bestselling author of the “Study” series (“Poison Study”, “Magic Study”, and “Fire Study”) about a young woman forced to become a poison taster. Tiffany Trent the author of the acclaimed “YA” dark fantasy series “Hallowmere”, which was an IndieBound Children’s Pick and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age 2008. Kiersten White is the debut author of “Paranormalacy”, the first book in a new trilogy, which was published by HarperTeen in August of 2010.Adrienne Kress, is the author of “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman” and “Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate”.
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Posted by Notcot on Jul 10, 2012 in
Steampunk
Bestselling romance editor Trisha Telep brings an exciting new element to the fast-growing sub-genre of steampunk, which bends and blends the old and the new in increasingly popular dark urban fantasies. Young heroes and heroines battle evil, in various forms with the help of super-technological or supernatural powers, while falling in and out of love. The contributors include: Ann Aguirre a bestselling author who writes urban fantasy (the “Corine Solomon” series from Roc), romantic science fiction (the “Jax” series from Ace), apocalyptic paranormal romance (as Ellen Connor, writing with Carrie Lofty, from Penguin), paranormal romantic suspense (as “Ava Gray from Berkley”), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction (“Razorland and Wireville” coming in 2011 from Feiwel & Friends). Tessa Gratton, her debut novel “Blood Magic” arrives in 2011 from Random House Children’s Books, followed by the companion “Crow Magic” in 2012. Jaclyn Dolamore is the debut author of “Magic Under Glass” from Bloomsbury USA. Lesley Livingston is the award-winning author of “Wondrous Strange and Darklight”, the first two books in the bestselling trilogy from HarperCollins.Frewin Jones is the bestselling author of the “Faerie Path” series and the “Warrior Princess” books, among many others. Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the “Iron Codex” trilogy, a Lovecraftian steampunk adventure. Dru Pagliassotti’s first novel “Clockwork Heart” was one of the first in the rising new genre of steampunk romance and was named by “Library Journal” as one of the five steampunk novels to read in 2009. Dia Reeves is the debut author of the critically acclaimed “YA Bleeding Violet”. Michael Scott is the Irish-born, “New York Times” bestselling author of the six part epic fantasy series, “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”. Maria V. Snyder is the “New York Times” bestselling author of the “Study” series (“Poison Study”, “Magic Study”, and “Fire Study”) about a young woman forced to become a poison taster. Tiffany Trent the author of the acclaimed “YA” dark fantasy series “Hallowmere”, which was an IndieBound Children’s Pick and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age 2008. Kiersten White is the debut author of “Paranormalacy”, the first book in a new trilogy, which was published by HarperTeen in August of 2010.Adrienne Kress, is the author of “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman” and “Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate”.
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Posted by Notcot on Jul 9, 2012 in
Steampunk
Bestselling romance editor Trisha Telep brings an exciting new element to the fast-growing sub-genre of steampunk, which bends and blends the old and the new in increasingly popular dark urban fantasies. Young heroes and heroines battle evil, in various forms with the help of super-technological or supernatural powers, while falling in and out of love. The contributors include: Ann Aguirre a bestselling author who writes urban fantasy (the “Corine Solomon” series from Roc), romantic science fiction (the “Jax” series from Ace), apocalyptic paranormal romance (as Ellen Connor, writing with Carrie Lofty, from Penguin), paranormal romantic suspense (as “Ava Gray from Berkley”), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction (“Razorland and Wireville” coming in 2011 from Feiwel & Friends). Tessa Gratton, her debut novel “Blood Magic” arrives in 2011 from Random House Children’s Books, followed by the companion “Crow Magic” in 2012. Jaclyn Dolamore is the debut author of “Magic Under Glass” from Bloomsbury USA. Lesley Livingston is the award-winning author of “Wondrous Strange and Darklight”, the first two books in the bestselling trilogy from HarperCollins.Frewin Jones is the bestselling author of the “Faerie Path” series and the “Warrior Princess” books, among many others. Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the “Iron Codex” trilogy, a Lovecraftian steampunk adventure. Dru Pagliassotti’s first novel “Clockwork Heart” was one of the first in the rising new genre of steampunk romance and was named by “Library Journal” as one of the five steampunk novels to read in 2009. Dia Reeves is the debut author of the critically acclaimed “YA Bleeding Violet”. Michael Scott is the Irish-born, “New York Times” bestselling author of the six part epic fantasy series, “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”. Maria V. Snyder is the “New York Times” bestselling author of the “Study” series (“Poison Study”, “Magic Study”, and “Fire Study”) about a young woman forced to become a poison taster. Tiffany Trent the author of the acclaimed “YA” dark fantasy series “Hallowmere”, which was an IndieBound Children’s Pick and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age 2008. Kiersten White is the debut author of “Paranormalacy”, the first book in a new trilogy, which was published by HarperTeen in August of 2010.Adrienne Kress, is the author of “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman” and “Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate”.
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Posted by Notcot on Jul 9, 2012 in
Steampunk
Bestselling romance editor Trisha Telep brings an exciting new element to the fast-growing sub-genre of steampunk, which bends and blends the old and the new in increasingly popular dark urban fantasies. Young heroes and heroines battle evil, in various forms with the help of super-technological or supernatural powers, while falling in and out of love. The contributors include: Ann Aguirre a bestselling author who writes urban fantasy (the “Corine Solomon” series from Roc), romantic science fiction (the “Jax” series from Ace), apocalyptic paranormal romance (as Ellen Connor, writing with Carrie Lofty, from Penguin), paranormal romantic suspense (as “Ava Gray from Berkley”), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction (“Razorland and Wireville” coming in 2011 from Feiwel & Friends). Tessa Gratton, her debut novel “Blood Magic” arrives in 2011 from Random House Children’s Books, followed by the companion “Crow Magic” in 2012. Jaclyn Dolamore is the debut author of “Magic Under Glass” from Bloomsbury USA. Lesley Livingston is the award-winning author of “Wondrous Strange and Darklight”, the first two books in the bestselling trilogy from HarperCollins.Frewin Jones is the bestselling author of the “Faerie Path” series and the “Warrior Princess” books, among many others. Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the “Iron Codex” trilogy, a Lovecraftian steampunk adventure. Dru Pagliassotti’s first novel “Clockwork Heart” was one of the first in the rising new genre of steampunk romance and was named by “Library Journal” as one of the five steampunk novels to read in 2009. Dia Reeves is the debut author of the critically acclaimed “YA Bleeding Violet”. Michael Scott is the Irish-born, “New York Times” bestselling author of the six part epic fantasy series, “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”. Maria V. Snyder is the “New York Times” bestselling author of the “Study” series (“Poison Study”, “Magic Study”, and “Fire Study”) about a young woman forced to become a poison taster. Tiffany Trent the author of the acclaimed “YA” dark fantasy series “Hallowmere”, which was an IndieBound Children’s Pick and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age 2008. Kiersten White is the debut author of “Paranormalacy”, the first book in a new trilogy, which was published by HarperTeen in August of 2010.Adrienne Kress, is the author of “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman” and “Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate”.
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Posted by Notcot on May 2, 2012 in
Steampunk 
A dystopian steampunk fantasy with a flavour of feudal Japan.
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Posted by Notcot on Oct 27, 2010 in
Cult Film 
Average Rating: 4.0 / 5 (49 Reviews)
If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director–oh, and a member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus–this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka’s The Trial (along with his own Python animation) in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. Not a software bug, a real bug (no doubt related to Kafka’s famous Metamorphosis insect) that gets smooshed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr. Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro). When Sam becomes enmeshed in unravelling this bureaucratic glitch, he himself winds up labelled as a miscreant.
The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of 20th-century bureaucracy that it almost became a victim of small-minded studio management itself–until Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who named it the best movie of 1985 and virtually embarrassed Universal into releasing it. –Jim Emerson If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director–oh, and a member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus–Brazil is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. In fact it was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka’s The Trial (along with his own Python animation) in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek government clerk named Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. It’s not a software bug but a real bug (no doubt related to Kafka’s famous Metamorphosis insect) that gets squashed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro). When Sam becomes enmeshed in unravelling this bureaucratic tangle, he himself winds up labelled as a miscreant. The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of 20th-century bureaucracy that it almost became a victim of small-minded studio management itself–until Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who named it the best movie of 1985 and virtually embarrassed Universal into releasing it. –Jim Emerson
On the DVD: Brazil comes to DVD in a welcome anamorphic print of the full director’s cut–here running some 136 minutes. Disappointingly the only extra feature is the 30-minute making-of documentary “What Is Brazil?”, which consists of on-set and behind-the-scenes interviews. There’s nothing about the film’s controversial release history (covered so comprehensively on the North American Criterion Collection release), nor is Gilliam’s illuminating, irreverent directorial commentary anywhere to be found. The only other extra here is the ubiquitous theatrical trailer. A welcome release of a real classic, then, but something of a missed opportunity. –Mark Walker
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Posted by Notcot on May 14, 2010 in
Cult Film 
Average Rating: 4.5 / 5 (96 Reviews)
Amazon.co.uk Review
The controversy that surrounded Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange while the film was out of circulation suggested that it was like Romper Stomper: a glamorisation of the violent, virile lifestyle of its teenage protagonist, with a hypocritical gloss of condemnation to mask delight in rape and ultra-violence. Actually, it is as fable-like and abstract as The Pilgrim’s Progress, with characters deliberately played as goonish sitcom creations. The anarchic rampage of Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a bowler-hatted juvenile delinquent of the future, is all over at the end of the first act. Apprehended by equally brutal authorities, he changes from defiant thug to cringing bootlicker, volunteering for a behaviourist experiment that removes his capacity to do evil.
It’s all stylised: from Burgess’ invented pidgin Russian (snarled unforgettably by McDowell) to 2001-style slow tracks through sculpturally perfect sets (as with many Kubrick movies, the story could be told through decor alone) and exaggerated, grotesque performances on a par with those of Dr Strangelove (especially from Patrick Magee and Aubrey Morris). Made in 1971, based on a novel from 1962, A Clockwork Orange resonates across the years. Its future is now quaint, with Magee pecking out “subversive literature” on a giant IBM typewriter and “lovely, lovely Ludwig Van” on mini-cassette tapes. However, the world of “Municipal Flat Block 18A, Linear North” is very much with us: a housing estate where classical murals are obscenely vandalised, passers-by are rare and yobs loll about with nothing better to do than hurt people.
On the DVD: The extras are skimpy, with just an impressionist trailer in the style of the film used to brainwash Alex and a list of awards for which Clockwork Orange was nominated and awarded. The box promises soundtracks in English, French and Italian and subtitles in ten languages, but the disc just has two English soundtracks (mono and Dolby Surround 5.1) and two sets of English subtitles. The terrific-looking “digitally restored and remastered” print is letterboxed at 1.66:1 and on a widescreen TV plays best at 14:9. The film looks as good as it ever has, with rich stable colours (especially and appropriately the orangey-red of the credits and the blood) and a clarity that highlights previously unnoticed details such as Alex’s gouged eyeball cufflinks and enables you to read the newspaper articles which flash by. The 5.1 soundtrack option is amazingly rich, benefiting the nuances of performance as much as the classical/electronic music score and the subtly unsettling sound effects. –Kim Newman
A Clockwork Orange
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