A Steampunk S Guide To Sex

Author : Professor Calamity,Alan Moore,Luna Celeste,Margaret Killjoy,Miriam Roček
Publisher : Steampunk's Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 193866003X

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A Steampunk's Guide to Sex by Professor Calamity,Alan Moore,Luna Celeste,Margaret Killjoy,Miriam Roček Pdf

From the great minds who brought you A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse now comes A Steampunk's Guide to Sex. Your guide to the sexy side of steampunk, covering everything from kinky Victorian sexuality to contemporary subcultural sex. Covers such hot topics as erotica, sex work, burlesque, BDSM, alternative sexualities, consent, sexual health, sex devices, and historical attitudes on sex; plus how-to guides on DIY floggers, steam-powered vibrators, Victorian aphrodisiacs, and more! Profusely illustrated with steampunk erotic diagrams, illustrations, and tintypes!

Author : Claire Nally
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350113206

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Steampunk by Claire Nally Pdf

What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective. In her interdisciplinary book, Claire Nally delves into this contemporary subculture, explaining how the fashion, music, visual culture, literature and politics of steampunk intersect with theories of gender and sexuality. Exploring and occasionally critiquing the ways in which gender functions in the movement, she addresses a range of different issues, including the controversial trope of the Victorian asylum; gender and the graphic novel; the legacies of colonialism; science and the role of Ada Lovelace as a feminist steampunk icon. Drawing upon interviews, theoretical readings and textual analysis, Nally asks: why are steampunks fascinated by our Victorian heritage, and what strategies do they use to reinvent history in the present?

Author : Lindsay Buroker
Publisher : Lindsay Buroker
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fighter pilots
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Balanced on the Blade's Edge by Lindsay Buroker Pdf

Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn’t the model of military professionalism—he has a tendency to say exactly what’s on his mind, and his record has enough demerits to wallpaper the hull of an airship—but as the best fighter pilot in the Iskandian army, he’s used to a little leniency from his superiors. Until he punches the wrong diplomat in the nose and finds himself issued new orders: take command of a remote prison mine in the inhospitable Ice Blades Mountains. Ridge has never been in charge of anything larger than a flier squadron—what’s he supposed to do with a frozen fortress full of murderers and rapists? Not to mention the strange woman who shows up right before he arrives… Sardelle Terushan wakes from three hundred years in a mage stasis shelter, only to realize that she is the last of the Referatu, the sorcerers who once helped protect Iskandia from conquerors. Their subterranean mountain community was blown up in a treacherous sneak attack by soldiers who feared their power. Everyone Sardelle ever knew is dead, and the sentient soulblade she has been bonded to since her youth is buried in the core of the mountain. Further, what remains of her home has been infested by bloodthirsty miners commanded by the descendants of the very soldiers who destroyed her people. Sardelle needs help to reach her soulblade—her only link to her past and her last friend in the world. Her only hope is to pretend she’s one of the prisoners while trying to gain the commander’s trust. But lying isn’t her specialty, especially when the world has changed so much in the intervening centuries, and if Colonel Zirkander figures out who she truly is, he’ll be duty-bound to sentence her to the only acceptable punishment for sorcerers: death.

Author : Roger Whitson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317509110

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Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities by Roger Whitson Pdf

Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic. It is a research methodology turning history inside out to search for alternatives to the progressive technological boosterism sold to us by Silicon Valley. This book turns to steampunk's quirky temporalities to embrace diverse genealogies of the digital humanities and to unite their methodologies with nineteenth-century literature and media archaeology. The result is nineteenth-century digital humanities, a retrofuturist approach in which readings of steampunk novels like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine and Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings collide with nineteenth-century technological histories like Charles Babbage's use of the difference engine to enhance worker productivity and Isabella Bird's spirit photography of alternate history China. Along the way, Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities considers steampunk as a public form of digital humanities scholarship and activism, examining projects like Kinetic Steam Works's reconstruction of Henri Giffard's 1852 steam-powered airship, Jake von Slatt's use of James Wimshurst's 1880 designs to create an electric influence machine, and the queer steampunk activism of fans appearing at conventions around the globe. Steampunk as a digital humanities practice of repurposing reacts to the growing sense of multiple non-human temporalities mediating our human histories: microtemporal electricities flowing through our computer circuits, mechanical oscillations marking our work days, geological stratifications and cosmic drifts extending time into the millions and billions of years. Excavating the entangled, anachronistic layers of steampunk practice from video games like Bioshock Infinite to marine trash floating off the shore of Los Angeles and repurposed by media artist Claudio Garzón into steampunk submarines, Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities uncovers the various technological temporalities and multicultural retrofutures illuminating many alternate histories of the digital humanities.

Author : Anna McFarlane,Lars Schmeink,Graham Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351139861

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The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture by Anna McFarlane,Lars Schmeink,Graham Murphy Pdf

In this companion, an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements, providing readers with snapshots of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk as culture. With technology seamlessly integrated into our lives and our selves, and social systems veering towards globalization and corporatization, cyberpunk has become a ubiquitous cultural formation that dominates our twenty-first century techno-digital landscapes. The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture traces cyberpunk through its historical developments as a literary science fiction form to its spread into other media such as comics, film, television, and video games. Moreover, seeing cyberpunk as a general cultural practice, the Companion provides insights into photography, music, fashion, and activism. Cyberpunk, as the chapters presented here argue, is integrated with other critical theoretical tenets of our times, such as posthumanism, the Anthropocene, animality, and empire. And lastly, cyberpunk is a vehicle that lends itself to the rise of new futurisms, occupying a variety of positions in our regionally diverse reality and thus linking, as much as differentiating, our perspectives on a globalized technoscientific world. With original entries that engage cyberpunk’s diverse ‘angles’ and its proliferation in our life worlds, this critical reference will be of significant interest to humanities students and scholars of media, cultural studies, literature, and beyond.

Author : Rachel A. Bowser,Brian Croxall
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452952536

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Like Clockwork by Rachel A. Bowser,Brian Croxall Pdf

Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years of the twenty-first century, its influence and prominence increasing ever since. From its Victorian and literary roots to film and television, video games, music, and even fashion, this subgenre of science fiction reaches far and wide within current culture. Here Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall present cutting-edge essays on steampunk: its rise in popularity, its many manifestations, and why we should pay attention. Like Clockwork offers wide-ranging perspectives on steampunk’s history and its place in contemporary culture, all while speaking to the “why” and “why now” of the genre. In her essay, Catherine Siemann draws on authors such as William Gibson and China Miéville to analyze steampunk cities; Kathryn Crowther turns to disability studies to examine the role of prosthetics within steampunk as well as the contemporary culture of access; and Diana M. Pho reviews the racial and national identities of steampunk, bringing in discussions of British chap-hop artists, African American steamfunk practitioners, and multicultural steampunk fan cultures. From disability and queerness to ethos and digital humanities, Like Clockwork explores the intriguing history of steampunk to evaluate the influence of the genre from the 1970s through the twenty-first century. Contributors: Kathryn Crowther, Perimeter College at Georgia State University; Shaun Duke, University of Florida; Stefania Forlini, University of Calgary (Canada); Lisa Hager, University of Wisconsin–Waukesha; Mike Perschon, MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta; Diana M. Pho; David Pike, American University; Catherine Siemann, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Joseph Weakland, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roger Whitson, Washington State University.

Author : Buckner Thompson
Publisher : AL Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Anarchists' Guide to the Bay Area by Buckner Thompson Pdf

Susie Os and the independent publishing house, AL Press are proud to present their first book in a series on Direct Democracy, Political Activism and Personal Freedom. The neo-conservative gun-toting minority has high-jacked the Republican Party, the United States Supreme Court as well as the language and terminology of freedom, but AL Press is here to help YOU fight back. While violent white supremacists and hard-core evangelicals with the assistance of talking heads and masters of propaganda like Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson have subverted the very basic principles of the United States to strip average, hard-working Americans of their fundamental rights, the 'silent majority' of freedom-loving and proud Americans can no longer stay SILENT. But how do you protest inside a increasingly oppressive, militaristic and violent society? How do you stay safe when your very life may be at the whim of a heavily armed racist police officer recruited into a position of authority by his white supremacist overlords and protected from prosecution by an ever more corrupt judicial system? RESIST. It is the only ethical and moral option, and this is the book the government doesn’t want you to have. AL Press - Independent Publishing at it's best. Susie Os and Bonny Freedom are the editors of the first in a series of books on political activism and personal freedom. This book along with several others at AL Press follow a long tradition of promoting literary freedom as protected by the United States constitution. However, due to recent challenges, and post-9/11 censorship, the authors and AL Publishing are currently writing under pseudonyms for their own protection.

Author : Dave Briner
Publisher : Geek Guide Books
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780983540878

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A Geek's Guide To Get Laid!: Have Sex Even If You're Fat, Ugly Or Worse! by Dave Briner Pdf

Author : Jean Rabe,Martin H. Greenberg
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101533277

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Hot and Steamy by Jean Rabe,Martin H. Greenberg Pdf

From the co-editor of Steampunk'd comes an all-new collection of adventure and romance amid Victorian steampunk settings. Sparks fly in these original stories of a steam-driven airship searching for a lost city, a crazy inventor in a powered wheelchair with a plot to take over the world, and a love story set in an alternate history version of America. Adventure abounds in these stories of love, loss, and danger- and there is plenty of steam!

Author : Kristina Wright
Publisher : Cleis Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781573447218

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Steamlust by Kristina Wright Pdf

Not quite sure what steampunk is? Think Victorian elegance and aesthetics meets futuristic invention and exploration. Kristina Wright's inventive anthology blends elements of science fiction, history and fantasy in just about any time period imaginable - and throws plenty of hot sex into the mix! Fetishising the wardrobe, language, fantasy and rituals of steampunk, Steamlust includes alternate histories, second worlds, time travel and contemporary settings.

Author : Rokuro Inui
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781974712984

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Automatic Eve by Rokuro Inui Pdf

A mighty shogunate ruling the land from Tempu Castle. An imperial line with strict female succession. Caught between these two immense powers, the sprawling city of Tempu is home to many wonders—not least a superhuman technological achievement in the form of a beautiful automaton known as Eve. When a secret that threatens to shake the imperial line intersects with the mystery of Eve’s creation, events are set in motion that soon race toward a shocking conclusion. A new, astonishingly inventive science fantasy masterpiece of historic proportions. -- VIZ Media

Author : Amal El-Mohtar,Max Gladstone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781534431010

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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar,Max Gladstone Pdf

* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * “[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right? Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.

Author : Fern Riddell
Publisher : Pen & Sword
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1781592861

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The Victorian Guide to Sex by Fern Riddell Pdf

An exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practices and deviance in the Victorian era. The Victorian Guide to Sex will reveal advice and ideas on sexuality from the Victorian period. Drawing on both satirical and real life events from the period, it explores every facet of sexuality that the Victorians encountered. Reproducing original advertisements and letters, with extracts taken from memoirs, legal cases, newspaper advice columns, and collections held in the Museum of London and the British Museum, this book lifts the veil from historical sexual attitudes.

Author : Yolandie Horak
Publisher : Yolandie Horak
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781999064815

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A Study of Ash & Smoke by Yolandie Horak Pdf

Plague, deception, and spies in a steampunk setting. Cara Lenoir knows all about secrets. Her existence is one. To keep her sister, the queen, safe from their monstrous father, Cara hides as Carl Fletcher, physician’s apprentice. It’s either that or die. But when Nathan Cutter shows up to be her mentor, danger lurks closer. What hope does a physician have against a ruthless killer? A deadly plague reaps in the slums. A network of spies is closing in on her. Under the Mantle, Cara has nowhere left to hide.

Author : James Roy,Max Quigley
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0702236047

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Problem Child by James Roy,Max Quigley Pdf

Problem Child is another book about bullying, but this one has a significant difference from most others - it's told from the bully's point of view.Max Quigley and his best mate Jared form the most intimidating team in the school. Jared's the physical enforcer, while Max is the persuader, the "brains" of the operation, or so he believes. He manages to justify his behaviour as no more than observing the obvious shortcomings of the weaker students.Max's chief target is Triffin Nordstrom, the quiet bookish kid with the slightly odd mother. Triffin becomes the victim of a series of atrocities by Max, until in a final attempt by their parents to sort it out, they're thrown together against their will, in an experimental solution to their conflict. But they'll still never be friends - there's far too much history between them for that to ever happen. Besides, they're just too different.