Steampunk; the retro-futuristic cultural movement; has become a substantial and permanent genre in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. A large part of its appeal is that; at its core; Steampunk is about doing it yourself: building on the past while also innovating and creating something original. VanderMeers latest book offers practical and inspirational guidance for readers to find their individual path into this realm. Including sections on art; fashion; architecture; crafts; music; performance; and storytelling; The Steampunk Users Manual provides a conceptual how-to guide that motivates and awes both the armchair enthusiast and the committed creator. Examples range from the utterly doable to the completely over-the-top; encouraging participation and imagination at all levels.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Great plays; of course; reasonable editionBy RobinIm not going to attempt to review the Tamburlaine plays; except to say that if you enjoy Shakespeare and havent read Marlowe; get started. I love these plays.The quality of this edition of the plays; however; is worth describing. I purchased this edition for my students in an Honors High-School English class. Its a reasonable edition to teach with. The footnotes do a good job of identifying and explaining the concepts and terms my students werent familiar with; and thankfully they are on the bottom of each page; rather than at the end of the book (which very few students will bother to turn to). The introductory material is OK; but not fabulous; if you want your students do to any serious background reading; youll probably be making photocopies of other sources.The price was right; and the edition was fine for the classroom; Id probably buy this edition again for students.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Tamburlaine comes alive in BrooklynBy Sarah GallickI recently had the privilege of seeing the great classic actor John Douglas Thompson in the role of Tamburlaine. He is appearing at TFANA in Brooklyn through December 21 and he made this demanding play come alive.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Frickin great!By Christina NordlanderI love the "Tamburlaine" of Christopher Marlowe; because Ive read it and couldnt resist it. The story is not melodramatically forced; but rather follows in a smooth and epic line; giving it the texture of a documentary. As a tragedy its weird; encompassing all drifts of literature: darkly humorous; rhetorical; romantic; violent and deep; with an indescribable grandeur. People commenting on Marlowes work usually regard him as psychologically shallow; but in this play the terrifying hero is so charismatically evoked in his language; sometimes rhetoric and sometimes commonplace; that I left the book with a queer sense of something between love and dread. Even Tamburlaines worst deeds; like his cursory humiliation of the captive kings; gain an odd flavour of predestination: theyre more of the hijinx of a power-drunk teenager than the actions of a cynical tyrant. Everyone should read this work; in which the dark-tinted wonders of the mediaeval Orient are called up in some of the most steelishly beautiful poetry Ive ever read.
