October is Steampunk Month!

October has been dubbed "Steampunk month" by genre heavyweight Tor.com, and it’s no surprise with all that’s been going on this month! Steampunk Fashion and Design will be featured this Saturday, October 24^th, at the Brooklyn Indie Market, followed by a Steampunk afterparty at the first and only Steampunk bar in Brooklyn, The Waystation. This weekend also marks the first annual Steam Con, happening in Seattle, with Guests of Honor, author Tim Powers (one of the authors about whom "steampunk" was coined) and the artist and author of the new book, Boilerplate, History’s Mechanical Marvel (newly nominated for a 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel), Paul Guinan! The visually decadent New York arts group, Dances of Vice, which puts on Victorian and Rococo themed parties and performances, will be having a Victorian themed Halloween party this year, and Boilerplate will be one of the costume contest prizes! Lastly (for the time being), from now until February 2010, the Oxford Museum of Science is hosting the first museum exhibition of Steampunk art!