Good news for Romanian steampunk.

My story "The story of Calistrat Hadîmbu from Vizireni, cowardly killed by the uncle Raul Colentina in an inn on the outskirts of Bucharest" won the Galileo Award 2012 for best short story.

And "Steampunk. The Second Revolution", edited by Adrian Craciun (Millennium Books, 2011, cover illustration by Edward Miller) won the award for best anthology.

The awards were voted by the subscribers of the Romanian SF&F magazine…

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Hi folks! My story ("The story of Calistrat Hadîmbu from Vizireni, cowardly killed by the uncle Raul Colentina in an inn on the outskirts of Bucharest") is a finalist for Galileo Awards. In the "best short story" category, 5 of the 7 nominees are from the anthology "Steampunk. The Second Revolution". The anthology is a finalist in the "best anthology" category. Sunday will be day of the last ballot.

The Galileo Awards are voted by the subscribers of Romanian magazine "Galileo".

The Spanish language steampunk magazine El Investigador released a retrofuturistic pirate-themed eleventh edition this month. 

There's a review of Mireille Calmel's Lady Pirate: Les valets du roi, a Victoriana role-playing game, and an article about ghost ships like The Flying Dutchmen.

Visually lush and packed with fascinating ideas and facts, you can download it for…

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A little poem I wrote after my boyfriend dumped me for another girl.



You love her more?

She, who doesn't want you back?

You had my heart in your hand

So vulnerable it was

Squished.

You had everything I had

everything I gave to you

'cause you were everything for me.

She gave you nothing

but you gave her what should be mine

Your heart you threw to her feet

So volatile it was.

That's how you are.

Broken

You broke… Continue

The snow queen is a Epic animated film.

http://www.youtube.com/user/gildagad#p/u/3/rOihq8fRBCE

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Enjoy an epic story of Fairawayland, by JEF Rose.

http://www.youtube.com/user/gildagad#p/u/2/-F7I4SmobUY

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A animated look into Daffy a dark hero.

From JEF Rose.

http://www.youtube.com/user/gildagad#p/u/1/gsvdqexfGuo

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Great animated monster.

From the mind of JEF Rose.

http://www.youtube.com/user/gildagad#p/u/4/j8MAEGs_Bz0

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Another steampunk inspired animation from the writer and artist JEF ROSE.

http://www.youtube.com/user/gildagad#p/u/5/MDrrlPYBHUk

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Steampunk inspired animation From JEF Rose.

http://www.youtube.com/user/gildagad#p/a/u/0/KvPLEL_sVsU

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Steampunk Revolution, edited by Ann VanderMeer (co-editor of both Steampunk and Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded) to be published in the Fall 2012 by Tachyon Publications, announces an open reading period.

Steampunk Revolution features a renegade collective of writers and artists—including steampunk legends as well as hot, new talents—who are rebooting the steam-driven past and powering it into the future with originality, wit, and…

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