or How to Throw Sand in the Gears of Ordinary Steampunk with the anthology Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt, edited by Matthew Bright

**Trigger Warning: episode intro discusses recent allegations of sexual assault in the steampunk community. Discussion runs from 26:32 to 39:38 if you would like to skip it. **

Show Notes

Today’s Book(s):
Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt

Citations:
K. Tempest Bradford

In the News:
“Time to Drop Names and Protect Newbies”

Podcast Recommendations:
Gallery of Curiosities - Submissions
The Clockwork Cabaret
The Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast
Texas Steampunk Connection
Portentous Perils in the 23rd Century
BRASS Podcast
Storypunks Podcast

Library Boosters:
Mahometan and Celestial
Steampunk Dollhouse Patreon
Audible

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“Baby I’m Not Your Lady” by Singing Sadie
“New Gods” by Toussaint, feat. Molly Dean, Chersti Rydning
“Good-Night” by the Knickerbocker Quartet

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or Why Xenophobia Always Leads to a Bad End with S.E. Grove's The Mapmakers Trilogy

Show Notes

Today’s Book(s):
The Glass Sentence (The Mapmakers Trilogy)
The Golden Specific (The Mapmakers Trilogy)
The Crimson Skew (The Mapmakers Trilogy)

Podcast Recommendations:
The Clockwork Cabaret
Judgement Night Radio Hour
The Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast
Storypunks Podcast
Texas Steampunk Connection

Library Boosters:
Mahometan and Celestial
Steampunk Dollhouse Patreon
Audible

Episode Music courtesy of FreeMusicArchive.Org:
“Baby I’m Not Your Lady” by Singing Sadie
“This Is Where Time Goes To Die” by Wayfairy
“Good-Night” by the Knickerbocker Quartet

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or Why Sometimes It’s About the Silk, Not the Steam with Ken Liu's The Dandelion Dynasty Series

Show Notes

Today’s Book(s):
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)
The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty)

Citations:
Ken Liu - Interview with South China Morning Post, 11-12-2017
This Is What It's Like To Write Science Fiction Novels In China

Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature), Roger Whitson

Podcast Recommendations:
The Clockwork Cabaret
Portentous Perils in the 23rd Century
The Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast
Storypunks Podcast

Library Boosters:
Mahometan and Celestial
Steampunk Dollhouse Patreon
Audible

Episode Music courtesy of FreeMusicArchive.Org:
“Baby I’m Not Your Lady” by Singing Sadie
“Waltz of the Renegade” by Art of Escapism
“Good-Night” by the Knickerbocker Quartet

With a Special Appearance By:
Old Bridge Rhythm Band

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Wherein universes collide, steampunk is (not really) defined, and tubas rend the air with a jaunty tune

Show Notes

Steampunk Podcast Collective:
Texas Steampunk Connection
The Clockwork Cabaret
The Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast

Library Boosters:
Mahometan and Celestial
Steampunk Dollhouse Patreon
Audible

Episode Music courtesy of FreeMusicArchive.Org:
“Let’s Just Get Through Christmas” by Doctor Turtle

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Show Notes:

Wherein Bluestocking explains why she will need to put Ken Liu’s magnificent (and massive) tomes, and the show itself,  on hold for a bit longer

Podcast Recommendations:
The Clockwork Cabaret
Judgement Night Radio Hour
The Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast
Portentous Perils in the 23rd Century

Sponsors:
Mahometan and Celestial
Steampunk Dollhouse Patreon
Audible

Festivals:
Wild West Victorian Fest

Episode Music courtesy of FreeMusicArchive.Org:
“Let’s Just Get Through Christmas” by Doctor Turtle
“Song for a Winter’s Night” by The Nancies
“Deck the Halls” by the HoHoHos!

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or, How a Young, Jewish Woman Decided to Grab Destiny by the Horns  with Emily Barton's The Book of Esther

Show Notes

Today’s Book(s):
The Book of Esther

Citations:
An interview with Emily Barton [Interview by J. Peacock]. (2015, April 1).

Wikipedia:
Book of Esther
Khazars
Kabbalah

Podcast Recommendations:
The Clockwork Cabaret

Festivals:
Steampunk November
Wild West Victorian Fest

Sponsors:
Steampunk Dollhouse Patreon
Mahometan and Celestial - Chartered Purveyors of Bespoke Modernities
Audible - The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. Fishman.

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“Baby I’m Not Your Lady” by Singing Sadie
“daughter no more” by Martha Rose
“Good-Night” by the Knickerbocker Quartet

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Wherein we become acquainted with a man who is most certainly not a lunatic. He’s not. Honestly.

Show Notes:

Today’s Reading:
The King in Yellow

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Show Notes:

Wherein the steampunk survivalist becomes learned in the various and sundry pox and plagues that inevitably accompany the apocalypse

Today’s reading courtesy of: Margaret Killjoy and Steampunk Magazine

Suggested Books:
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

Show Some Love:
Stickers by TeeSpring
SPDH Patreon

Sponsors:
Audible

Festivals:
Steampunk Shindig
Steampunk November
Wild West Victorian Fest

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“Noir” by Daniel James Dolby
“Steampunk” by Bouwakanja

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or, How a Carnival Kid Brought Down an Empire with Rod Duncan’s Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire Series

**Trigger Warning - episode includes a frank discussion of rape**

Show Notes

Today’s Book(s):
The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter: The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, Book 1
Unseemly Science: The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, Book 2
The Custodian of Marvels: The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, Book 3

Citations:
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
Ice Cold: Analysis of the Dachau Experiments
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Podcast Recommendations:
The Clockwork Cabaret
Judgement Night Radio Hour
The Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast
Texas Steampunk Connection

Sponsors:
Audible
Patreon

Festivals:
Steampunk Shindig
Steampunk November
Wild West Victorian Fest

Episode Music courtesy of FreeMusicArchive.Org:
“Baby I’m Not Your Lady” by Singing Sadie
“Cantina Rag” by Jackson F. Smith
“Noir” by Daniel James Dolby
“Boat’s Up the River” by Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs
“Good-Night” by the Knickerbocker Quartet

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or, Why Decolonial Determination is Steampunk as S*&# with the anthology The Sea Is Ours, Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia, ed. Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng

Show Notes

Today’s Book(s):
The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia

Citations:
Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Goh, Jaymee. “Towards Chromatic Chronologies: Using the Steampunk Aesthetic for Postcolonial Purposes.” McMaster, 2011.

Jaymee Goh - A Probability of Being

Joyce Chng - A Wolf’s Tale

IndiGoGo Campaign (Closed. Providing link for info only)

Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures

Podcast Recommendations:
The Clockwork Cabaret
Judgement Night Radio Hour
The Steam Rollers Adventure Podcast

Sponsors:
Audible
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

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“Baby I’m Not Your Lady” by Singing Sadie
“Waltz of the Renegade” by Art of Escapism
“With Her”  by Rose Blanket
“Good-Night” by the Knickerbocker Quartet

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