Pressed & Bound

The fall must be the greatest time for steampunk, because just as the leaves have started to turn brown, two great books have arrived on shelves to sate your appetite for brass pipe and gauge-laden everything. Last week, we had seen the arrival of Dreadnought, and tomorrow you can pick up Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld.
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Episode 82 of Pressed & Bound is online! Garret has a birthday and Joe covers his bald, bald head. Also: bonus charity gaming marathon information! In this week’s episode we discuss:

Books:

• Leviathan

Movies:

• Metropolitan – Criterion Collection

Also, as mentioned in the show, we will be doing a charity gaming marathon in December for the charity Child’s Play. More information, and the website where the event will be held, can be found at Hardmode.org.

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Today, as a birthday gift, I was given a novel (as people are wont to do; when you host a show about novels, expect novels as gifts. Protip: buying me a novel is essentially a guarantee that I will like the gift). The gift got me to thinking: again, since we may or may not do a show about novels, and have run through quite a swath of authors over the last 81 episodes, it would not be a horrible idea to delve a little further into the lives of those authors we are only given so long to discuss on the show. So to start things off, let’s discuss Scott Westerfeld, author of the newly released novel Leviathan. By “newly” I mean really newly. Like…yesterday newly.
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