Monthly Archives: December 2013

Steampunk Final Exam for First-Year University Seminar, Part 1

O.K., I didn’t actually give my students a final exam for our Steampunk seminar.  I did, however, make a mock final and asked them to come up with answers for me. Part 1 was an identification section.  Answers are listed … Continue reading

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A Link to My New Short Story

“Eyesores” is up and ready for reading at the online magazine Perihelion.  I’m providing a direct link to the story.  It’s around 6,000 words, and it falls into the near-future SF category–with a little martial arts, a little extremist pediatrics. I … Continue reading

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More Films from Steampunk Seminar

It took two class sessions, but we finally watched all of Howl’s Moving Castle.  What a great movie. Lots of discussion regarding whether or not the steampunk setting–with the mechanical/magical castle and the old planes and the pre-WWI uniforms–was really … Continue reading

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