Angels and Automatons: a shared-world steampunk anthology

A project in Wellington, NZ by Stephen Minchin
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Angels and Automatons is a steampunk anthology that chronicles the rise and fiery destruction of a town on New Zealand's West Coast.
Backers: 66
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Funded: $1,827 of $10,000
Dates: Jan 24th -> Feb 23rd (31 days)
Project By: Stephen Minchin
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Latest News

Stephen Minchin: Thank you, and maybe next time!

February 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
It looks like the Angels and Automatons project isn't going to reach its funding goal – barring an eleventh hour injection of vast quantities of cash, we won't be going ahead. So it goes! Thank you for your support, though, and maybe the next... (Read More)

Darusha Wehm: Traveling in time, in space and imagination

February 18th - via: kickstarter.com
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. – L. P. Hartley. I'm a New Zealander, but I'm not from here. My mother is a Kiwi, but I was born and raised in Canada. Coming to New Zealand as an adult I cannot help but feel foreign... (Read More)

Excerpt from "Oil and Bone" by Dan Rabarts

February 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Another opportunity to write some Kiwi steampunk, you say? Wouldn't miss it for the world. Our exalted leader, Stephen Minchin, advised us not to start writing our stories until after the Kickstarter had run its course, but seriously? Drop me in this... (Read More)

Alisha Tyson: Creating a model hero out of cogs

February 12th - via: kickstarter.com
I am excited about this project because of the story I want to write – it involves clockwork lungs and buried body bits that never operate quite right.  I want to write you that story. I’d like to introduce you to the children of the late 19th... (Read More)

KC Norton: Moving abroad

February 11th - via: kickstarter.com
From my first encounter with steampunk, I've loved this genre. It's got mad science, adventure, humor, and darkness built right into its core. It reveals both the glamour of social and industrial revolution, and the systematized dehumanization that... (Read More)

Deborah Walker: This is what I like about steampunk

February 9th - via: kickstarter.com
In recent years one of my favourite steampunk stories has been Genevieve Valentine's "The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball" published in Lightspeed (2010). Valentine uses the technique of false documents: extracts from... (Read More)

Pip Ballantine – why this project is important to me

February 5th - via: kickstarter.com
I've been involved in a lot of steampunk projects, but this one is particularly important to me – and it's not just because it is from the nation I was born in and lived in for most of my life. It is because the stories of New Zealand are just as... (Read More)

Thank you, and onward!

February 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
I've been a fan of steampunk for a while now – the aesthetic is brilliant, the stories are awesome, and there's so much scope for adventure and fun, and subversive tales too. But for the past two and a half years I've been running a New Zealand... (Read More)

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