{"id":32116,"date":"2019-09-30T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=32116"},"modified":"2019-09-30T05:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T02:00:27","slug":"steampunk-symposium-2020-weird-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/steampunk-symposium-2020-weird-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk Symposium 2020: Weird West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/steampunksymposium.com\/program\/\">Steampunk Symposium 2020<\/a> (27th-29th March) is going &#8220;Weird West&#8221; as its theme in spring 2020. As in &#8216;the old west&#8217; or &#8216;the wild west&#8217; of America meets the weird, via steampunk.  The event plans &#8220;&#8230;over 200 hours of programming with a grand schedule of presentations, exhibitors, vendors, entertainers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/west.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/west.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m unfamiliar with the sub-genre, but interested to learn that there&#8217;s obviously enough of it to hang a symposium on.  I assume that the sub-genre must have stepped beyond a simple transplanting of mundane zombies and stock vampires into the Old West, with a few airships thrown in alongside the steam-trains?  Do any readers know of really imaginative works in this sub-genre, which also work within an R.E. Howard \/ Lovecraft framework e.g. &#8220;Valley of the Lost&#8221;, &#8220;The Horror from the Mound&#8221;, &#8220;Transition of Juan Romero&#8221;, &#8220;The Mound&#8221;, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, over in comics-land, this week Por Por <a href=\"http:\/\/theporporbooksblog.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/comics-of-american-west.html\">takes a look<\/a> at the 1977 survey book <em>Comics of the American West<\/em>.  Never reprinted and now collectable, it seems.  It&#8217;s not yet on Archive.org.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/amer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/amer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32718\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steampunk Symposium 2020 (27th-29th March) is going &#8220;Weird West&#8221; as its theme in spring 2020. As in &#8216;the old &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/steampunk-symposium-2020-weird-west\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}