In Which Things Get Wild
Nov. 18th, 2009 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldritchhobbitHappy Wednesday, everyone! My latest "History of the Genre" segment is up at StarShipSofa: The Audio Science Fiction Magazine, and it's about the first work of modern steampunk: the fantastic television series The Wild Wild West. The episode is available for download or streaming here. If you listen, I hope you enjoy.
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agentxpndble, here's a lovely visual to accompany my segment. Ah, the sweet smell of steampunk!
In other news...
* From Publishers Weekly: "In Defense of Dystopia."
* From Jeff Vandermeer: "The Next Big Punking," which builds on "Make Way for Plaguepunk, Bronzepunk, and Stonepunk" from Wired.
* Speaking of steampunk, here's a list of steampunk audiobooks.
* Last, AMC's new miniseries of The Prisoner is finally over; there goes six hours of my life I will never have again. I was both hopeful and nervous about it. As it turns out, only the anxiety was justified. What a terrible disappointment in execution, in tone, and especially in message. I'll let io9 take it from here. Although my list would be far longer, I appreciate the symbolism: "Six Things the New Prisoner Changed for the Worse." Patrick McGoohan, how I miss you.
"As my Great-Aunt Maude always used to say: 'Artemus, if you can't win the game, the next best thing is to upset the chessboard!'"
- Artemus Gordon, "The Night of the Bogus Bandits," The Wild Wild West
With thanks to
agentxpndble, here's a lovely visual to accompany my segment. Ah, the sweet smell of steampunk!
In other news...
* From Publishers Weekly: "In Defense of Dystopia."
* From Jeff Vandermeer: "The Next Big Punking," which builds on "Make Way for Plaguepunk, Bronzepunk, and Stonepunk" from Wired.
* Speaking of steampunk, here's a list of steampunk audiobooks.
* Last, AMC's new miniseries of The Prisoner is finally over; there goes six hours of my life I will never have again. I was both hopeful and nervous about it. As it turns out, only the anxiety was justified. What a terrible disappointment in execution, in tone, and especially in message. I'll let io9 take it from here. Although my list would be far longer, I appreciate the symbolism: "Six Things the New Prisoner Changed for the Worse." Patrick McGoohan, how I miss you.
"As my Great-Aunt Maude always used to say: 'Artemus, if you can't win the game, the next best thing is to upset the chessboard!'"
- Artemus Gordon, "The Night of the Bogus Bandits," The Wild Wild West
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Date: 2009-12-21 07:04 pm (UTC)Actually I only got through the first two episodes in the original Prisoner (bought the DVD _before_ McGoohan died) before getting bored with that.
Oh no!!!! We routinely do marathons, I must confess. Once I see the opening sequence, I have to rewatch 'em all. It's my favorite series of all time.