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Here’s a look at what Rebellion Publishing have coming for you over the period January to June 2016! |
Due to a slightly smaller output from Abaddon Books we’ve combined their titles into a shared article with Solaris; all titles are Solaris unless otherwise indicated. | |
We’ll be bringing you our particular recommends of all publishers including Rebellion together by month of publication. | |
Note: Publication dates are liable to change and some jackets are still to come… | |
Additional: Titles from Rebellion’s YA & children’s imprint Raven Stone can be found on their site. Rebellion also own the UK’s and the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic 2000AD, and you can discover the fantastic graphic novels / collections coming from Jan-Jun on our page for them here [to come]… |
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Anyway, while we tend to focus on graphic novels / collected editions of comics, we are particularly keen to see crazy stuff happening to the city of our residence; so here’s our profile of what’s here, coming and been in the world of Death Sentence and Death Sentence: London!
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The bailiff knelt down and stroked the soldier’s close-cropped hair as if calming a child crying in the night.
“My name is James,” said the bailiff. Read the rest of this entry »
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And it’ll be right, probably. ’Cause I’ll surely die here. Just not on Sol 6 when everyone thinks I did.
Let’s see . . . where do I begin? Read the rest of this entry »
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Odyssia the Clever Champion and her compatriots begin their longest, strangest trip yet: the one home. ODY-C—the gender-bent, eye-popping, psychedelic, science fiction odyssey—begins here.
Art preview, reviews and title information below!
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We’re lucky to have some interior art to share from Joe Sparrow’s THE HUNTER coming from NoBrow Press in May – check it out below! |
Full title details, description and author information can be found beneath and you can see the same and more fabulous May titles in our May Graphic Novel Recommends and more Jan-Jun titles from NoBrow here. | |
A packed room greets us late arrivals with people already having ignored the ‘No Seats, No Entry’ notice, sprawled and stood at the back and sides like Victorian underclass. The panel is made up of Girl Genius creator Kaja Foglio, East Midland author Kim Lakin-Smith, Germany’s Oliver Plaschka and Spain’s Marian Womack, all chaired by Gollancz’s Gillian Redfearn and is in full flow.
The discussion is inexorably heading toward the big ‘what is steampunk‘ question though that, and perhaps some answers, are repeatedly touched on along the way. Aesthetic is the key word, and the love of the genre being ‘playful’; other defining elements or aspects are noted as being the culture of the time: fashion, politics, manners and multiculturalism, and technology and its implications, whether or not treated with a second world twist. As the chair later wryly queries ‘Do you have to do more than stick a gear on it to make it steampunk?’ | |
(Which reminds of the joke of: Q – ‘How many steampunks does it take to change the light bulb?’ A – ‘Two; one to change the lightbulb and the other to put the unnecessary cog on it.’) |
More questions: Are steampunk and Victoriana the same, is one a subset of the other? The panel seem happy that Victoriana, perhaps the more general love of the style of the period and it’s history, has been around for a lot longer. Though now, especially with the modern Steampunk / goth ‘tribe’, there’s a new sense of Victoriana spilling out from steampunk literature.
Alongside that, later period offshoots of Victorian era steampunk are raised – Dieselpunk, being of the 20’s and (if I heard this right) Dustpunk of the 30’s, each with their own aesthetic, style and view of the world, partly understood through the entertainments of the time.
Oliver Plaschka alludes to the relationship of cyberpunk and steampunk and that the former was of the 80’s, representing the fears and technological developments of that decade (which makes me wonder what the future retropunk of that era might be – NewRomanticpunk? Postpunkpunk?) Then Kaja Foglio expresses her love of and interest in the pre-Victoriana period and it’s potential for similar science fictional interpretation (Enlightenpunk anyone?) |
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As we move toward the big question, which of course was never going to be categorically answered, Foglio is clear that she won’t ascribe her work a category, Steampunk or otherwise. If you give it a category, she notes, someone is just going to tell you you’re not doing it right. If she has an idea and likes it then it goes in, she says. |
Besides, as a friend of hers pointed out, ‘It’s not very ‘punk’ to let people tell you how to do it.’
No arguments here.
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A few days ago I was confirmed as having a press pass and, after recovering from a ‘Carabas presents: ALTERNATIVE DRINKS‘ night have made my way down to the great LonCon3!
Staff have been absolutely fabulous – a wonderful and busy few days ahead.
Love it.
Back soon with more…
Tim
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