Steampunk Scholar

Mike Perschon: I teach English full-time at MacEwan University, research steampunk and speculative literature, and giant monsters. I speak at cons and conferences, and draw and write in my spare time. I am as avid a FRPG player as one can be with kids, a wife, and a yard.

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20000 Leagues Under the Sea6
Aesthetic7
Against the Day4
Airships11
Alan Moore1
Alternate History8
Anina Bennett3
Antecedents4
Anthologies5
Art1

Arthur Slade2
Asian Steampunk3
Audiobooks6
Automata5
Boilerplate2
Bricolage1
Brief reviews1
Canadian Steampunk21
Canuck Steampunk1
Captain Nemo10
Cherie Priest6
China Miéville3
Christmas2
Comics1
Conferences and Conventions25
Defining Steampunk21
Detournement1
Disney1
Doctor Who4
Eaton Science Fiction Conference 20097
Edgar Allan Poe1
Ekaterina Sedia1
Erotica4
Fairie1
Felix Gilman2
French Steampunk2
Gail Carriger15
Gaslamp Fantasy3
Gaslight Romances1
Gonzo3
Gordon Dahlquist1
Graphic Art9
H.G. Wells4
Harper Goff1
History of Steampunk1
Hiyao Miyazaki1
Horror3
Images3
J. Daniel Sawyer2
James Blaylock10
Jay Lake3
Joe. R. Lansdale3
Jonah Hex2
Jules Verne17
Just-for-fun5
Kenneth Oppel4
Kurt R.A. Giambastiani1
Magic7
Makers1
Mark Frost1
Mark Hodder1
Mark Mellon1
Mary Shelley1
Mash-ups1
Michael Moorcock1
Mike Mignola2
Movies8
Murdoch Mysteries2
music2
Myths and Legends4
Neal Stephenson2
Nemo Prequel2
Neo-Victorian5
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Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition3
Novels74
Paolo Bacigalupi3
Paranormal Romance1
Pastiche4
Paul Guinan3
Pax Britannia4
Philip Reeve2
Reading Lists4
recursive fantasy7
Researching Steampunk1
Retrofuturism10
Reviews1
Roleplaying games6
Romance11
Rudy Rucker1
Rush2
S.M. Peters3
Scary Steampunk5
Scott Westerfeld3
Secondary Worlds5
Seminal Steampunk3
Shakespeare1
Sherlock Holmes4
Short Stories16
Social Retrofuturism2
Speculative Fiction1
Spiritualism2
Star Wars4
Steamcon1
Steamcon 20097
Steamcon 20101
Steampunk Christmas5
Steampunk for kids3
Steampunk Gilgamesh1
Steampunk Star Wars2
Steffen Hantke1
Superheroes1
Teaching Steampunk5
Technofantasy16
Technology13
Television4
The Difference Engine1
The Mission23
Thomas Pynchon5
Tim Powers4
Top Steampunk lists4
Vampires2
Video Shorts4
Weird West4
Whimsy11
Wild West3
YA Steampunk13

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Upcoming Appearances

If you'd like to have me present at your event, contact me at mikeperschon at shaw dot ca.

2016
No appearances scheduled

What people are saying about Mike Perschon, Steampunk Scholar

"...one of Canada's most honourable and brilliant thinkers... He truly is a man of many talents. In the steampunk arena he has proven himself time and again to be open minded, thorough, direct and detailed in his reviews and academic works on various media from art to literature, film and even the obscure. He has been a wonderful panelist and presenter at various gatherings in Canada and the United States. I expect he will be invited to attend many more as people learn more about him. He is a true gentleman with a wonderful sense of humour and wonder. His students are indeed lucky."
- Lee Ann Farruga, Steampunk Canada

"The Steampunk Scholar is my new blog crush. The guy is living my dream. He is doing research on a really awesome topic with cool conferences, the chance to role play and dress up in period clothes, and, best of all, having normal people probably [find] it interesting."- Historiographic Anarchy

"The Steampunk Scholar is a brilliant in-depth resource on all things steampunk fiction." - Louise Curtis

"For excellent reviews of the growing Steampunk literary genre, do make a point to visit (then bookmark) the Steampunk Scholar." - Steampunk Tribune

"Some of the best scholarship being done on the subject of Steampunk has been by Mike Perschon on his blog, Steampunk Scholar." - Christopher J. Garcia

"His explanation of how to define Steampunk was the most clever and concise version I’ve ever heard..." J.M. Frey

"...the most well-read of all the voices in the steampunk movement." - Jonathan D. Beer