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Exciting news everyone, which as news tends to do, comes in threes.
First of all, Steaming into the Victorian Future is now available in trade paperback! Now instead of paying $100+ for this collection, you can get the trade paperback for less than $25. This is the very first academic collection of steampunk essays, and, for those interested in helping this scholarship grow, please purchase a copy of the book. I’m being honest here — we have been very grateful for the support our publisher as given the editors Julie Ann Taddeo and Cynthia Miller by creating this low-cost edition, but in order for steampunk academia to continue, we have to show support with our wallets as well. If you are interested in writing or teaching about steampunk for the classroom, consider adding this to your bookshelf.
Already, this book has earned some great press from the Academy and the SFF community.
Winner of the 2013 Peter C. Rollins Award in Popular Culture Studies
“Steaming into a Victorian Future looks at the potential that steampunk has to be a contributor to social change through consideration of its past and present. This collection is vast in its scope, critically evaluating ‘texts’ from an array of genres from the past, present, and future of this literary movement and its surrounding subculture, and is as valuable as an introduction to steampunk and its possibilities as any of the fiction collections available.” (Monsters and the Monstrous academic journal)
“The English major in me just finished up dancing a little jig. I always enjoy reading essays on steampunk, but there are essays… and then there are essays. Oh, yeah. I enjoyed it. Every. Single. Page.
If any fellow steampunk fans out there want some solid validation of our favorite genre and its literary effects, this is your book.” (Wired.com)
In other news, Steampunk World is on its way to the presses soon, you can check out the Table of Contents posted on SF Signal.
Finally, I’m excited to say that I’ll be attending the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, an annual academic conference about SFF in Orlando, Florida. I won’t be presenting, but there representing the Tor Books crew, since the theme this year is “Fantastic Empires” and Guests of Honor line up include Nnedi Okorafor, Ian McDonald, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay (Scholar), Jr., and Brian Aldiss (Emeritus).
A summary of what to expect at the conference:
From space operas to medieval tales to seminal works of fantasy, imaginative fiction abounds in fabulous empires. ICFA 35 will investigate the widest range of topics relating to empire, including discussions of particular texts, analyses of the hegemonic and counterhegemonic forces of empire, evaluations of individual resistances to imperialism (and of empires striking back), and assays into various other aspects of the theme. We welcome proposals for scholarly papers and panels that seek to examine, interrogate, and expand any research related to empire and the fantastic.
Authors, agents & academics interested in meeting at the conference, feel free to contact me! I’m really looking forward to this. ^^
Beyond Victoriana 
I’ve done ICFA a couple of times and really enjoyed it.
This will be my first time going, and I’ve already had my squee-fest over the panels they’ll be having.
Hi Ay-leen Thanks for the information regarding the book Steaming into a Victorian Future. I am just beginning to explore the whole steampunk movement. I just finished a book called, Prairie Fever, which dealt with real British Aristocrats in the American West. I found you and your site while exploring the Steam Punk Bible. I ordered Victorian Future book yesterday from Amazon right after I received your email.
Kenbigtrain.
Thank you so much for your support! I hope you enjoy the book, and feel free to tell your friends about it too. ^^