Årets första julklapp

Det värsta med att vänta på jul är att man inte får öppna sina julklapp. Därför har vi hittat på några väldigt speciella presenter för er: Fina hedersgästintervjuer i veckan innan jul! Idag börjar vi med Steampunk Emma Goldman, de andra kommer att följa varann dag. Njut av läsningen!

1) If you were to give away a Steampunk-book for Christmas, which one would it be?

Emma: But The Anatomy of Steampunk is quite good. Not that I observe religious holidays, of course, but there’s never a bad reason to give your friends books.

2) What do you find most fascinating about Steampunk?

Emma: The intersection of past and future; the blending of possibilities when we are able to reimagine history and the future.

3) In your opinion, what are the main parallels or differences between Science Fiction /Fantasy and Steampunk?

Emma: I consider steampunk to be, roughly speaking, the intersection of sci-fi/fantasy and history, but I think what they have in common, at their best, is imagination.

4) Is there an author (dead or alive) you really would like to meet, and if so, why?

Emma: I was supposed to meet Oscar Wilde once in the late 1890s, and we barely missed each other.  I would dearly love to have met him.

5) Is it actually possible to write Steampunk that is not feminist?

Emma: Absolutely!  It is incredibly possible to write steampunk that is not feminist; steampunk is written in the present, in which misogyny is alive and well, and it draws from the 19th century, in which it was even stronger.  But I think at its best steampunk plays with the infinite variations of gender and gender roles.

6) Ursula LeGuin said that Science Fiction /Fantasy is not about the future but about the present. Does something similar apply to Steampunk, too?

Emma: I think so.  Anything that portrays the past, or the future, is really about portraying our own time.

7) Finish following sentence: ”Steampunk taking place in space…”

Emma:… should probably include the possibility of establishing anarchist colonies on uninhabited planets.