Monthly Archives: September 2012

ABC Developing Steampunk Drama “Gaslight”

According to report from Deadline, ABC is developing a Steampunk drama called Gaslight. The show is “described as a lavish soap opera of passion, greed and hope set in a present-day Steampunk World in which three rival families battle for power and redemption in a re-imagined San Francisco.”

The show is being written and exec produced by Michael Cooney, who wrote the only-half-clever suspense thriller Identity (confession: I kind of like this movie), as well as some less interesting fare. The production company behind this whole thing is Sander/Moses Productions, headed by the team that brought us The Ghost Whisperer and the much more watchable Profiler back in the 1990s.

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Lady Gaga Going Steampunk?

Twitter followers of Lady Gaga were treated this weekend to some pictures that suggest the pop star may be considering a Steampunk turn. The two pictures posted via Instagram show Ms. Gaga wearing a hat and ensemble from Worth Couture Paris (although she was in Denmark, she pointed out). The feathers, veil, and detailing do have a period feel to them, although looking at anything else from Worth Couture upcoming collections, it is hard to see a clear 19th century influence.

Still, it is fun to speculate, given some of Lady Gaga’s earlier wardrobe, um, choices.

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Steampunk Books Coming out in August & September

Every month, the good folks over at SF Signal compile an awesome list of science fiction, fantasy, and horror (and related) books coming out in the next month. Here are the Steampunk-relevant/related/adjacent ones from the lists for August and September, but please take a gander at the full lists for August and September titles if you are looking for reading material from outside our little corner of the SF-osphere.

Black Bottle by Anthony Huso, Tor, August 21

Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top edited by Ekaterina Sedia, Tor, August 21

Clockwork Angels by Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart, ECW, September 3

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