Book Giveaway Contest: Vintage Tomorrows

I am back and healthy…and buried in work. However, it’s time for the last book giveaway (for a while, at least), and it’s a great one.

 

 

Vintage Tomorrows is the book to hand to anyone who asks about steampunk. Whether it’s about the maker culture, the fashion trends, the history behind the alternative history, the literature, the art, the music, or anything else you can think of, this book does its best to cover it. (In fact, there was so much to include that there’s a supplementary ebook available – for free! –as well. See below for details.)

 

Written by historian James H. Carrott and futurist Brian David Johnson, Vintage Tomorrows looks at the history that never was, and also at the future which still may be. It’s a great read, and highly recommended.

 

We have one copy to give away! This one is easy: to enter the giveaway, post a comment below and tell us, in one sentence, what steampunk means to you.  (Mine is one word: “Optimism.”) The deadline for the giveaway is Monday, April 1st (no joke). Good luck!

 

The free companion book to Vintage Tomorrows, titled Steampunking Our Future, is available for download!

 

More information on Vintage Tomorrows is available at O’Reilly’s website.

 

More information on James H. Carrott can be found on his website or via his Twitter account.

 

More information on Brian David Johnson can be found on the Tomorrow Project website and on his Twitter account.

Comments

[LeAnn Schimmel]

What steampunk means to me is beauty and peace.

[Jude Morrissey]

For me, steampunk offers a distinctly different yet hopeful setting to confront current cultural issues.

[Barry Huddleston]

To me steampunk is a constant question. Friends, relatives, and odd strangers ask me,"Is (insert whatever) steampunk?"

Since you said no joke, I thought that I would leave you with a Victorian era joke.

What is the difference between a tube and a foolish Dutchman? One is a hollow cylinder and the other a silly Hollander.

[Kevin Wadlow]

Steampunk is a journey to the Future via a Past that Never Was.

[Seanna]

IMO: Steampunk is a mindset dedicated to repurposing the new into the old; breathing culture and history into that which has become void of soul.

[Graeme Williams]

If I can be forgiven some local boosterism, to me steampunk means "Waltham". That's Waltham, Massachusetts, where the industrial revolution came to the United States (at least according to us!).

[Andrew]

Steampunk is striving for new ideas, leave the obsolete and create new set of combinations to visualize future existence, material and human.

[Taylor]

Steampunk is the human puzzle that will make The difference, on the road from the past towards the future.

[Alden Ash]

I take your optimism and add the joy of discovery (invention, concepts, adventure, exploration, etc.) with a touch of whimsy.