2026 Hugo Award Winners
The rockets have landed. Last night at LAcon V in Anaheim, the 2026 Hugo Awards were handed out at a live ceremony, and the sci-fi/fantasy community has (once again) argued…
From the archives
August 2026
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Brass & Embers
A new steampunk TTRPG just landed on Kickstarter, and The Doctor is paying attention. Brass & Embers, from Questborne Studios out of Orlando, runs on a D6 system and drops…
The Ghost in the Shell (2026)
Science Saru (the studio that gave us Dandadan) just went and made the Ghost in the Shell adaptation the manga has deserved for thirty-plus years. Not a remake of the…
Weekend at the Asylum 16
It's here. Tomorrow. Weekend at the Asylum 16 descends on Lincoln, UK August 28-31, and if you're not already on a transatlantic flight with your brass goggles fogged from the…
Amherstburg Uncommon Festival
A free outdoor steampunk festival in a historic Ontario town near Detroit, running September 18 through 20: gears, top hats, axe throwing, teapot racing, a wizard academy, a steampunk opera…
The Code That Would Not Die
On 1 August 2012, two hundred and twelve ordinary customer orders arrived at Knight Capital. Forty-five minutes later the firm had made four million trades and lost roughly ten million dollars a minute.
NIGHTWATCH: The Steampunk TTRPG
Bonsart Bokel (the Netherlands, creator of The Association of Ishtar series, host of the Radio Retrofuture podcast, and apparently incapable of sitting still) has a steampunk TTRPG on Kickstarter called…
The 10th Annual Obtainium Cup Contraptor’s Rally
Hand-built sculptural vehicles versus flying monkeys, killer robots, and zombies. On a closed course. Judged by how well the contraption handles the chaos. This is the Obtainium Cup Contraptor's Rally…
Duskfade
A giant Clock Tower plunges the world of Tearfeld into eternal night. A kid with a clock-hand sword and a mechanical cuckoo bird has to fix it. Yes, this is…
San Francisco Historium Spotlight
The people behind the Great Dickens Christmas Fair spent two months building 46 period structures in a pair of Cow Palace warehouses, loaded the whole town onto eight semi-trucks, drove…