Victorian Links
There's a metric buttload of information online about the Victorian era, steampunkiness, and Victoriana in general online.
Everybody here knows how to use Google, so I won't regurgitate what you, dear reader, could find on your own in five seconds. However, I do have some recommendations, for what it's worth...
First off, the cool map/diagram above of 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes' London residence, is from Strange Maps, one of my favorite blogs. It's not a Victorian website per se, but it's loaded with odd and archaic maps of all sorts and is worth checking out.
While we're on the subject, The Victorian Dictionary offers those interested a means to explore 19th century London, the epicenter of the Victorian universe.
For a ridiculously comprehensive overview of all things Victorian, you can't do better than The Victorian Web. It doesn't have the most user friendly or aesthetically pleasing design, but the info is there.
The Steampunk Workshop is dedicated to folks who enjoy making the retro-technology of 19th century fantastic literature come to life in the here and now. Some of the stuff featured on the site is incredibly clever, if you can get past the high minded hyperbole about "sustainable rebellion" surrounding what is essentially just a cool hobby.
Pseudopod is billed as "the world's premiere horror fiction podcast," and I believe them. Their podcasts are short "radio plays" in the grand tradition of spooky broadcasting, and although it's not exclusively Victorian, The Tales of the White Street Society, written by my homeboy Grady Hendrix, serves up some old-fashioned gaslight horror. Check it out.
Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection is pretty much the ultimate destination for all things Verne on the web. If you're not familiar with the works of the visionary French writer who gave the world the likes of Dr. Moreau, Captain Nemo, and Phileas Fogg, you should take a look. Speculative fictionand science in general owes a great debt to Monsieur Verne.
OK, that's enough for now. Coming up: a Victorian reading list, with heavy emphasis on crime and butchery! Fun!
Everybody here knows how to use Google, so I won't regurgitate what you, dear reader, could find on your own in five seconds. However, I do have some recommendations, for what it's worth...
First off, the cool map/diagram above of 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes' London residence, is from Strange Maps, one of my favorite blogs. It's not a Victorian website per se, but it's loaded with odd and archaic maps of all sorts and is worth checking out.
While we're on the subject, The Victorian Dictionary offers those interested a means to explore 19th century London, the epicenter of the Victorian universe.
For a ridiculously comprehensive overview of all things Victorian, you can't do better than The Victorian Web. It doesn't have the most user friendly or aesthetically pleasing design, but the info is there.
The Steampunk Workshop is dedicated to folks who enjoy making the retro-technology of 19th century fantastic literature come to life in the here and now. Some of the stuff featured on the site is incredibly clever, if you can get past the high minded hyperbole about "sustainable rebellion" surrounding what is essentially just a cool hobby.
Pseudopod is billed as "the world's premiere horror fiction podcast," and I believe them. Their podcasts are short "radio plays" in the grand tradition of spooky broadcasting, and although it's not exclusively Victorian, The Tales of the White Street Society, written by my homeboy Grady Hendrix, serves up some old-fashioned gaslight horror. Check it out.
Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection is pretty much the ultimate destination for all things Verne on the web. If you're not familiar with the works of the visionary French writer who gave the world the likes of Dr. Moreau, Captain Nemo, and Phileas Fogg, you should take a look. Speculative fictionand science in general owes a great debt to Monsieur Verne.
OK, that's enough for now. Coming up: a Victorian reading list, with heavy emphasis on crime and butchery! Fun!
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