Hm, I haven't read any steampunk-ish short stories, but if you want time travel and fun steampunk elements The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers is a great novel.
I've seen that novel around. I should read it some day, even if I don't have room to include it in my class. (BTW, apparently there is this new book of steampunky short stories out. I've been meaning to get a copy from the library for a couple months now, but haven't gotten to it yet...)
And if you need any SAJV eps, I can supply those, but the quality varies on those (oh, how I covet DVDs of that show)
...Oooh. That could work. I wonder if it's as good as I remember from long, long ago, or if there are better steampunk examples I could use that would be short enough to include...
Futurama: oh, yeah, the Roswell episode! Haha, perfect. That's totally a sendup of the cliche.
Farscape is a tough choice; I suppose it depends on what element of the show you want to focus on?
Yeah, it's a little difficult in that much of what I want to focus on from FS is covered in the other texts I'm using. I guess what's most interesting about the show for my purposes is that John is a lone alien stranger in an alien land, and he has to adapt, but still keep his human side. (That may be why I immediately thought of "Revenging Angel," because he uses Looney Tunes to defeat alien technology, aka Harvey. Well, that and it's the one episode I have really firm memories of.)
I haven't read any of Jenkins' new books, but Textual Poachers, although a great book for the history of fandom, vidding, and slash fic, is rather dated now. It doesn't really deal with online fandom at all.
Yeah, that's my problem with it. I would only be using short excerpts, so I could excerpt relevant sections from both that and the latest one, to have a POV on both the last days prior to online fandom (as well as a bit of general historical "here is what fandom is and how it developed") and on modern online fandom and how things have changed. (I assume his latest one would offer that kind of POV, anyway. The Amazon summary seems to indicate that, anyway. To be honest, it might even work to just use excerpts from that...I'll have to check it out.)
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Date: 2009-05-21 05:12 am (UTC)I've seen that novel around. I should read it some day, even if I don't have room to include it in my class. (BTW, apparently there is this new book of steampunky short stories out. I've been meaning to get a copy from the library for a couple months now, but haven't gotten to it yet...)
And if you need any SAJV eps, I can supply those, but the quality varies on those (oh, how I covet DVDs of that show)
...Oooh. That could work. I wonder if it's as good as I remember from long, long ago, or if there are better steampunk examples I could use that would be short enough to include...
Futurama: oh, yeah, the Roswell episode! Haha, perfect. That's totally a sendup of the cliche.
Farscape is a tough choice; I suppose it depends on what element of the show you want to focus on?
Yeah, it's a little difficult in that much of what I want to focus on from FS is covered in the other texts I'm using. I guess what's most interesting about the show for my purposes is that John is a lone alien stranger in an alien land, and he has to adapt, but still keep his human side. (That may be why I immediately thought of "Revenging Angel," because he uses Looney Tunes to defeat alien technology, aka Harvey. Well, that and it's the one episode I have really firm memories of.)
I haven't read any of Jenkins' new books, but Textual Poachers, although a great book for the history of fandom, vidding, and slash fic, is rather dated now. It doesn't really deal with online fandom at all.
Yeah, that's my problem with it. I would only be using short excerpts, so I could excerpt relevant sections from both that and the latest one, to have a POV on both the last days prior to online fandom (as well as a bit of general historical "here is what fandom is and how it developed") and on modern online fandom and how things have changed. (I assume his latest one would offer that kind of POV, anyway. The Amazon summary seems to indicate that, anyway. To be honest, it might even work to just use excerpts from that...I'll have to check it out.)