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Cover and interior designs by Galen Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n Arriving in your book emporia this week is The Steampunk Bible<\/em> by Jeff VanderMeer<\/a> & SJ Chambers<\/a>, a comprehensive guide to the sub-genre which is now a thriving sub-culture. I contributed some bits of graphic design as well as a bespoke dirigible illustration (see below). The book also features a few other steampunk-related pieces of mine among its wealth of photos and illustrations. This is a typically lavish production from Abrams<\/a>, beautifully designed by Galen Smith with a cover based on the celebrated Hetzel editions<\/a> of Jules Verne’s novels. Inside there are essay contributions from Bruce Sterling, Catherynne M Valente, Jess Nevins and others. If you’re a steampunk enthusiast (or know one) this is an essential purchase. Some links and page samples follow below.<\/p>\n \u2022 The official Steampunk Bible site<\/a> My cover<\/a> for KW Jeter’s Morlock Night<\/em><\/a> which has just been republished by Angry Robot.<\/p>\n My brief was to create a cannon-bedecked piscine dirigible so this is what I came up with. See it in all its belligerent glory here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Cover and interior designs by Galen Smith. Arriving in your book emporia this week is The Steampunk Bible by Jeff VanderMeer & SJ Chambers, a comprehensive guide to the sub-genre which is now a thriving sub-culture. I contributed some bits of graphic design as well as a bespoke dirigible illustration (see below). The book also … Continue reading “The Steampunk Bible”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,21,20,23],"tags":[1754,2503,2504,710,2502,142,1943,715,1753,1924,249],"class_list":["post-9268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","category-work","tag-angry-robot","tag-bruce-sterling","tag-catherynne-m-valente","tag-francois-schuiten","tag-galen-smith","tag-jeff-vandermeer","tag-jess-nevins","tag-jules-verne","tag-kw-jeter","tag-sj-chambers","tag-steampunk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2pu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 The Steampunk Bible: Mecha-Elephants, Raygun Rocketships, and Great Stories<\/a>, a feature by Jeff V.
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\n\u2022 Steampunk Reloaded<\/a>
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\n\u2022 Vickers Airship Catalogue<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Air Ship<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dirigibles<\/a>
\n\u2022 More Steampunk and the Crawling Chaos<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk Redux<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk framed<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk Horror Shortcuts<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Airship Destroyer<\/a>
\n\u2022 Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Hetzel editions of Jules Verne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"