{"id":9599,"date":"2011-06-24T02:21:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T01:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9599"},"modified":"2011-06-24T03:22:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T02:22:26","slug":"morlocks-airships-and-curious-cabinets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/06\/24\/morlocks-airships-and-curious-cabinets\/","title":{"rendered":"Morlocks, airships and curious cabinets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/morlock.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/morlock.jpg\" alt=\"morlock.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things I was working on late last year continue to percolate or, if you prefer, build a head of steam. My cover for KW Jeter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/morlock.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Morlock Night<\/em><\/a> appears in a short piece by Rick Poynor in July&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativereview.co.uk\/cr-blog\/2011\/june\/cr-july-11-issue\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Creative Review<\/em><\/a>. That feature is prompted by the British Library&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/sciencefiction\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Out of the World<\/em><\/a> exhibition. Nice to see something of mine with Hannes Bok&#8217;s illustration for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaabooks.com\/bpictures\/8714.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Who Goes There?<\/em><\/a> by John W Campbell, the story which was filmed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044121\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Thing from Another World<\/em><\/a>, and later, John Carpenter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084787\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Thing<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Morlock Night<\/em> is also one of my contributions to the lavish <a href=\"http:\/\/steampunkbible.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Steampunk Bible<\/em><\/a> which editors SJ Chambers and Jeff VanderMeer have been promoting for the past couple of months. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/popcandy\/post\/2011\/06\/cool-book-alert-the-steampunk-bible\/1?loc=interstitialskip\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/em> ran a feature on the book which included my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/airfish.html\" target=\"_blank\">piscine airship<\/a> among the selected illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>Next up will be the <em>Thackery T Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities<\/em> for which I&#8217;ve provided a number of illustrations and decorative title pages. Jeff V has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/2011\/06\/21\/the-thackery-t-lambshead-cabinet-of-curiosities-pre-pub-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">a preview shot of the cover<\/a>. That will be out next month. More later.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/02\/the-steampunk-bible\/\">The Steampunk Bible<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/11\/02\/steampunk-reloaded\/\">Steampunk Reloaded<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/09\/23\/steampunk-overloaded\/\">Steampunk overloaded!<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/04\/vickers-airship-catalogue\/\">Vickers Airship Catalogue<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/03\/the-air-ship\/\">The Air Ship<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/02\/dirigibles\/\">Dirigibles<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/12\/18\/more-steampunk-and-the-crawling-chaos\/\">More Steampunk and the Crawling Chaos<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/09\/13\/the-art-of-francois-schuiten\/\">The art of Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/31\/steampunk-redux\/\">Steampunk Redux<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/02\/24\/steampunk-framed\/\">Steampunk framed<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/11\/27\/steampunk-horror-shortcuts\/\">Steampunk Horror Shortcuts<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/06\/the-airship-destroyer\/\">The Airship Destroyer<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/02\/zeppelin-vs-pterodactyls\/\">Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/04\/21\/the-hetzel-editions-of-jules-verne\/\">The Hetzel editions of Jules Verne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I was working on late last year continue to percolate or, if you prefer, build a head of steam. My cover for KW Jeter&#8217;s Morlock Night appears in a short piece by Rick Poynor in July&#8217;s Creative Review. That feature is prompted by the British Library&#8217;s Out of the World exhibition. Nice to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/06\/24\/morlocks-airships-and-curious-cabinets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morlocks, airships and curious cabinets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,4,21,48,43,20,23],"tags":[3864,2680,710,2150,142,680,2681,715,1753,1463,1924,249],"class_list":["post-9599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-science-fiction","category-work","tag-airships","tag-creative-review","tag-francois-schuiten","tag-hannes-bok","tag-jeff-vandermeer","tag-john-carpenter","tag-john-w-campbell","tag-jules-verne","tag-kw-jeter","tag-rick-poynor","tag-sj-chambers","tag-steampunk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2uP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599","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=9599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}