...Marscon 2009...

Tiste and I have gone to Marscon every year since we started dating. Last year was great fun - I went to a lot of panels and met some interesting characters. This year was fun also but for totally different reasons. This year Lisa came with us and we made the most of our weekend together!

We saw old friends, made some new friends and even managed a 'family' dinner on Saturday. We got to dress-up in strange outfits and geek out with others... and claim we weren't as geeky as that other geek that was just talking to that bigger geek.

Anyway... This years theme was Steampunk!

For those of you that don't know...

Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles or analog computers; these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or a presumption of functionality.

Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously dystopian than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely.

(According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk)

And the theme freakin' rocked!

Lisa


Tiste


Me


Ms. Daina


Lisa