{"id":782,"date":"2008-05-02T17:51:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T17:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/05\/02\/shameless-plugs\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:38","slug":"shameless-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/05\/02\/shameless-plugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameless plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/article.php?id=4051\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Iron Man<\/span> review<\/a>, there are two additional Klaw pieces to mention.<\/p>\n<p>The latest edition of &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/columns\/graphica271.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Graphica Nexus<\/a>&quot; appears at SF Site.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">A medium and not a genre, comic books differ little at the creative writing level from movies and plays. If &quot;one professionally produced dramatic script&quot; allows for membership then there should be no debate about comic book writers. The technical variances between these types of scripts is negligible. Is a playwright or a screenwriter less of a &quot;real&quot; writer because someone else enacts their words? This is no different then an artist envisioning a comic book script? It&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/columns\/graphica271.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Continued&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/images\/graphica\/14789.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tachyonpublications.com\/book\/Steampunk.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Steampunk<\/span><\/a> with my original essay &quot;The Steam-Driven Time Machine&quot; should either be on the stands or out any day now.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">Some twenty years later, pop culture has embraced steampunk.  Publishing, film, and even the Internet embolden the term as a branding tool.  Nary a week goes by without <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Boing Boing<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">www.boingboing.net<\/a>), the venerable group blog, posting about some sort of steampunk inspired gadget, cartoon, or essay.  A search of their archives generates almost 1500 articles.  Subjects vary greatly: laptops, keyboards, watches, Transformers,  planes, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Car Wars<\/span>, submarines, and so on.  Many articles showcase functioning modern technology using steampunk methods and materials.  Others present actual working machines from the 19th century.  Images presenting artistic depictions of steampunk, paintings, sculptures, architecture and the like.  Reinterpretations of popular shows such as <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Star Trek<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Star Wars<\/span> litter the listings.  Original short films featuring steampunk tropes offer many amusing and sometimes exciting diversions.<\/p>\n<p>Continued in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tachyonpublications.com\/book\/Steampunk.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Steampunk<\/span><\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/16\/1325840921471e113b3f867.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to my Iron Man review, there are two additional Klaw pieces to mention. The latest edition of &quot;Graphica Nexus&quot; appears at SF Site. 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