I’m a British-Canadian author writing full-time in Lincolnshire England. While I lived most of my life in Canada and the USA, I’m glad to be home!
My overactive imagination fills my mind with three dimensional puzzles of stacked what-if questions that cry out for answers. In my writer’s den, I dream up whimsical adventures that range from the satirical to the macabre while wrestling my ginger tabby Jazz for control of the keyboard.
Hi Charles! Thanks for the inclusion in your recent dieselpunk post (which I also thoroughly enjoyed reading)! I wondered if you’d be interested in reviewing the book on your blog? If you don’t already have a copy, I would happily email you a free eBook copy.
Very excited to read your novel as well, as I find there isn’t nearly enough dieselpunk fiction out there (in contrast to the bevy of steampunk offerings). Thanks again for the mention, and let me know if you’d like me to email you a copy!
Best,
-Dan Glaser, author of “A Fistful of Nothing”
Charles, I’d love to include photos from your website in the Perihelion Science Fiction book review (August 2014 edition), if Sam agrees to it and if you and your artists do. You must be offline this weekend. Your illustrated edition of Dragonfly is a steal at $3.99 and I hope you sell millions of this book!
Mr. Cornell,
I listened to your talk at the St. Petersburg main library last Thursday. I’d like to thank you for making me more aware of
additional kinds of “punk”.
With regard to the date of transition from steam to diesel punk, I was a little puzzled. Diesel got his patent on the diesel
cycle in 1895, but I couldn’t remember any transition between steam and diesel power. Certainly not for automobiles or for
electric power generation. Then I remembered that there was a transition between steam and diesel on railroad locomotives.
I used to watch trains and I remember when the majority of locomotives were still steam powered. Then there was a quick
transition to diesel-electric starting at about 1945. I remember riding on the El Capitan, which was a diesel-electric passenger
train introduced in about 1947 on the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe. There was never a time when the railroads used
gasoline and the otto cycle that was being used in cars. It clarified the transition from steam to diesel, for me, when I thought
of the history of railroad locomotives.
Thanks again for an enjoyable talk.
Gordon Hoover