In Asking the Prophet we use our alien probes to pick the brains of sci-fi and speculative fiction writers. This week, we spoke to Ian Tregillis about the nuances of steampunk, how biology is our ...

Seriously. This is my only contact with the outside world. Will do, Warren. But it also gives me the opportunity to talk about Clockpunk Ellis. There's script as well. Panel 3: CE is running with ...

Over at BoingBoing, Cory pointed out a strange new Renaissance slipstream genre called "clockpunk." Stories in the clockpunk vein are about alternate futures or histories where Renaissance-era devices ...

Clockpunk is only the latest of many passing fashions in science fiction, but such fads are a useful spur to necessary innovation. Imagine Cesare Borgia flinging down gunpowder grenades from a wind-up ...