Magazines & Newspapers
The epitaph on the tombstone of this editor reads "What--Me Dead?"
Who was William B. Gaines?
Akkadian is a member of this language group.
Queen Victoria fancied this American apple so much that she abolished tariffs on it.
What is Albemarle Pippin?
The astronomer who propounded the "dying Mars" hypothesis that inspired H. G. Wells to write War of the Worlds.
Who is Percival Lowell?
The author of Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council.
The cover of this magazine once featured a Dalmatian, a revolver and the tagline “If You Don't Buy this Magazine, We'll Kill this Dog".
What was National Lampoon?
Alexander the Great died in this Mesopotamian city.
What is Babylon?
A wad of fried batter with apples inside.
What is apple fritters?
The final sentences of this early classic read
"He sprang from the cabin-window as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance."
What is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus?
The iconic, irreducible symbol of steampunk retrofuturism.
This San Francisco newspaper editor wrote short stories about the Civil War, the world of horror and tall tales.
Demoness who caused women & newborn children to die of wasting diseases.
Who is Lamashtu?
Early American settlers found their newly planted apple orchards produced very few apples until they imported these from the old country.
What are honey bees?
The original Starship Enterprise's registry number.
What is NC-1701?
Steampunk couture concentrates on this era.
The humor magazine that began as a 1950s comic book.
What is Mad Magazine?
The one epic from Mesopotamia that is still selling modern translations.
What is the Gilgamesh Epic?
Apple trees originated in the Tien Shan Mountains located in the eastern portion of this country.
What is Kazakhstan?
The year that Godzilla made his debut in film.
A co-author of The Difference Machine (1990), a novel credited with raising awareness of steampunk.
Who is William Gibson or Bruce Sterling?
William Randolph Hearst gave this newspaper the motto “Monarch of the Dailies".
What was the San Francisco Examiner?
British adventurer who wrote the archaeological best-seller of the nineteenth century.
Who is Austen Henry Layard?
This was Johnny Appleseed's given name.
Who is Jonathan Chapman?
The being who disrupted Seldon's notion about galactic socio-historical trends in Asimov's Foundation series.
Captain Nemo figures in this famous steampunk graphic novel series.
What is The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?