Steven Smith

1 week ago | albertaviews.ca | Steven Smith

In a “Playwright’s Preface” to The Hundred-Year Circus, a wild poetic collage of a book, Sarah Gibbs writes: “Were I a real writer I would forge it: a play of nationhood. But I can only manage a Tall Tale, some Bob Dylan B-side, when time bends like a mountain switchback so you can race through years or spin moments into decades.”As ringmaster of an “apocalypse cabaret”—subtitled “An American Tragi-Comedy”—Gibbs jams 100-plus years into her tent in four acts.

1 month ago | panelsandprose.com | Steve Smith |Steven Smith

The EC science fiction titles hold a special place in American pop culture. The titles that ran from 1950 to 1955 (Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, Weird Science-Fantasy) were indispensable waystations for the still-niche genre of science-based speculative fiction. I would argue they were the crucible in which pop sci-fi as we have known it I was forged. These comics not only popularized and proliferated some of the foundational tropes of the genre.

Feb 17, 2025 | authorstevensmith.co.uk | Steven Smith

Welcome back to another Open Book Blog Hop!Today’s topic is: What has been the hardest format to write for you? Remember to visit my fellow writers to see what they have created. You can find their works here!I’ve been very fortunate in my writing life. Much of what I’ve written or am writing has come easily to me. My two steampunk novels are in a genre I love, so fall into seamlessly.

Feb 9, 2025 | panelsandprose.com | Steve Smith |Steven Smith

The United States has never made a bold move forward without anchoring it in a reading of the past. Our “Founding Fathers” have been carted out regularly to sanctify everything from The Civil War to Progressive and New Deal reforms, the Civil Rights movement to Reaganism. Americans like to frame changes in our politics and culture not as radical breaks from the past so much as realizations of original principles. It is self-evident in our own time.

Jan 27, 2025 | authorstevensmith.co.uk | Steven Smith

Welcome back to another Open Book Blog Hop!Today’s topic is: Who is your favourite artist? Remember to visit my fellow writers to see what they have created. You can find their works here!I wracked my brain on this one. First, what makes an artist? Are we talking only about visual media – painting, sculpture, photography? Isn’t music and writing also art? And film, how can I forget film? So with all of these factors considered I’ve settled on one person – Tim Burton.