Lyndsie is an artist and a writer, and a frequent guest at Steampunk conventions for her subject matter and experience on the topic. Dave and Jeannie sit down with Lyndsie today to discuss Steampunk and British Colonialism, science, mad science, fantasy, and more. If you love brass goggles, brown leather boots, and thinking about alternative power sources for machinery, this is for you!
Mentions from Episode 129:
- Pennsic War
- SteamCon in Seattle, WA
- Steampunk + Colonialism – Lyndsie’s blog
- John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons
- Jeannie admits here that color TV was a little late for Steampunk. Don’t tell Dave.
- Hércules Florence, a French-Brazilian inventor, is considered one of the pioneers of photography
- The Age of Innocence
- Waterworld – water punk?
- Cold air energy storage
- Lots more about compressed air energy storage because it’s cool
- Air conditioning from plastic bottles
- Other cool eco projects
- Chaz Brenchley’s The Crater School
- Queen of the Damned
- Wakanda Forever!
- Gail Carriger – (Jeannie mispronounces her name here – sorry, Gail!)
- The original Wild Wild West
- K.W. Jeter
- Charles Babbage’s engine
- When hatpins were outlawed, only outlaws wore hatpins
- Carrie Vaughn’s Harry and Marlowe
- Clockwork Alchemy
- Gunpowder Alchemy by Jeannie Lin
- Dreaming Down-Under by Jack Dann
