How important is steampunk? Is it a literary genre? A film aesthetic? Or just a subculture that has co-opted bits and pieces of Victorian dress and mixed it with a wry twist of sci-fi? The term steampunk is not as old as the literature that inspired it. A term coined in the 1980s as a…
Tag: Sherlock Holmes
For the love of the (e)Book
An interesting article on the potential change that eBooks will bring to reading: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/14/kindle-books I truly enjoy digital reading. If one is to be fussy about the format of the book, then that is to be selective about reading altogether. I am currently working my way through all of the Sherlock Holmes stories, of which…
