Magic, Metal and Steam by Tickety Boo Press Ltd

Damnit my draft involved airfrigates... if you say its in an alternative crimean war i'll be deeply unhappy
 
:) and heres me thinking it was lost in a slush pile somewhere.

Is there room for the good ship HMAS (Airship, not ozzie navy) Iris and her crew to be battling their way past a pesky Russian blockade in the Himalayas to deliver a mysterious cargo to a waiting Chinese aircruiser? Or are you flush with clanky airships now?

All in the name of Queen Victoria and the excuse to give a few good broadsides?
 
ralphkern said:
Damnit my draft involved airfrigates... if you say its in an alternative crimean war i'll be deeply unhappy
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Whoops...

Mine's an alternative WW1, although a bit early, so hopefully we'll have quite different stories.
 
ralphkern said:
:) and heres me thinking it was lost in a slush pile somewhere.

Is there room for the good ship HMAS (Airship, not ozzie navy) Iris and her crew to be battling their way past a pesky Russian blockade in the Himalayas to deliver a mysterious cargo to a waiting Chinese aircruiser? Or are you flush with clanky airships now?

All in the name of Queen Victoria and the excuse to give a few good broadsides?
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Just write the story you want to write. Anything else doesn't matter! :)
 
I started a work set in the Caribbean in the early 1700s; the golden age of piracy, involving steam powered canons and voodoo assisted ships but it didn't seem to go anywhere :( back to the lab...
 
Quellist said:
I started a work set in the Caribbean in the early 1700s; the golden age of piracy, involving steam powered canons and voodoo assisted ships but it didn't seem to go anywhere :( back to the lab...
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It sounds very promising to me. I hope it won't all be Victorian, and that we'll see some stories set in the 17th and 18th centuries.
 
Still not done with mine. It's not set in the real world, but the feel is pre-Victorian.
 
Have I missed something? Did we had to include an airship into the story? Because there seems to be a page about them in workings, and now I'm scared that the details I included into the first draft aren't acceptable enough.
 
ctg said:
Have I missed something? Did we had to include an airship into the story? Because there seems to be a page about them in workings, and now I'm scared that the details I included into the first draft aren't acceptable enough.
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Calm down, dear. It's only an anthology.:)

No you didn't have to include an airship :)
 
Glad to hear that, as most of mine takes place in a crypt.
 
Ha, no. There is a dog, though.
 
how about an alternate history set in elizabethan times which also happens to be post-steam and at the dawn of magic? (it's only really elizabethan so's i can get me some ruffs in...)
 
Mr Orange said:
how about an alternate history set in elizabethan times which also happens to be post-steam and at the dawn of magic? (it's only really elizabethan so's i can get me some ruffs in...)
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If you can make all those work together, it sounds like the sort of thing we are looking for.

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Remember, everyone, it's Elizabethan through Victorian, science-fantasy, and it doesn't have to have an airship. In fact, if all we got were stories with airships that would be very disappointing. It doesn't have to have steam, either. You can use "metal" and "steam" literally, or as metaphors for science and experimentation within that period (or settings that have the flavor of that period).

How you combine your magic with technology or science is up to you, so long as it makes a good, well-written story, but stories where magic and science work together in a way that scientists and natural philosophers of the period actually believed they worked together would be especially welcome. At least by me. I don't know what is most likely to spark Gary's or Jeff's interest.
 
Teresa Edgerton said:
It sounds very promising to me. I hope it won't all be Victorian, and that we'll see some stories set in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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I'll see if I can build something with it :) makes me feel a bit guilty that I'm not working on our main project though.
 
Quellist said:
I'll see if I can build something with it :) makes me feel a bit guilty that I'm not working on our main project though.
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I am finding it rewarding to have a rest from the WIP and write in a different style, different voice. I actually think it helps you improve. IMO:)
 
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