Just before Christmas I was interviewed by the chaps over at SF Signal about the recent Steampunk anthology Resurrection Engines. The interview has now gone live and you can read it on the link below. I also waffle on about the forthcoming Steampunk/Dieselpunk/Alternate Timeline novel range called Tales Of The Iron War I'm working on.

As work continues on my next book, The Horus Engines, (which is set in an alternate 1939, and will…

Crazy, but true; in my mind at least. Let me begin in the past... with football.

I used to enjoy it for the action, the hard hits, and the slow-motion highlights of feats impossible to appreciate with the naked eye. Over time I learned more about the strategy, and teamwork involved. Others delve deeper, with fantasy football leagues, draft parties, and the like.

So I'm a steampunk fan from way back; loved 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and the original series Wild Wild West.…

If you're planning on being in the South Yorkshire (England) area in June, stop by at Steampunk Doncaster on the weekend of June 15-16 for...

Items of Steampunk interest recently added to Net Advance Retro include:

>Pages about the African-American mathematician Benjamin Banneker and the French airship-designer Gaston Tissandier

>An account of…