Book Review: Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

Kate Pentecost’s debut novel, Elysium Girls, successfully blends dystopian, steampunk, and fantasy genres all into one flashy, high concept western that follows a rough and tumble gang of witches and an otherworldly daemon magician during the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma. …

Movie Review: ‘April and the Extraordinary World’

One of the popular aesthetic movements in fiction is steampunk, a genre mash-up of Vernian science fiction and Victorian culture. In the field of speculative fiction, however, this is also one of the most lacklustre genres. Its conceptual premise always…

TV Review: Penny Dreadful 1×01, “Night Work”

  Note: While in later reviews I will give a more detailed recap, this first episode review will talk about the production overall so as not to give anything away for those who are on the fence about watching the…