Recent content by Virgil Tracy

Wow, that's quite a viewing list. A few there that I've watched and loved like Firefly and The Expanse so I'll have to check some of the others out. Thanks Tom

I'm worried some people may feel I've been a bit too critical of a few of the movies I mention. I do have a defence though. I collect famous insults, especially show business insults, and I think this might incline me to harsh judgements.

Script by James Cameron, directed by Kathryn Bigelow - have to check out Strange Days. Thanks Tom.

Steelpunk. Steelpunk is all about the technologies of the last decades of the last millennium. Where Steampunk celebrates the 19th century, Steelpunk loves the tech of the late 20th. It harks back to the days of the space race and the jet age, when everything was chrome-plated, needle-nosed and...

If anyone's interested, a few people on SFFWorld have suggested Steelpunk books.

Yeah, I don’t think anyone else has used the term Steelpunk to describe a style of science fiction before. I was thinking that I’d like sci-fi that celebrated the technology and general vibe of the jet age and the space race. I was wondering what you’d call it and Steelpunk sounded right to me.

I don’t know if Steelpunk does exist but I’d love it if it did. Here’s what I think Steelpunk is. Is there any out there? Steelpunk: A lengthy disquisition on an invisible genre Steelpunk celebrates the technologies that had their heyday in the last decades of the last millennium. It is to the...