Boilerplate for the Hugo!
Hello Ghouls and Boils,
It is award season again and I wanted to take this time to talk about Boilerplate. 2009 was an excellent year for us at She Never Slept and we didn’t even launch the site until mid-Summer. I had a lot of interesting films, music and books cross my desk… some of which I am still trying to get to. (stares at the ever-growing pile) But – without a doubt – Boilerplate was the most incredible thing that I have ever had the opportunity of reviewing. It’s a fantastic story that is beautifully illustrated and truly unique. Exquistely detailed and designed, this book is filled with both true history and speculative fiction – a combination that makes your mind wander and your imagination blossom. (Please see the full review and interview with the creators >>here<< !) Sadly, I cannot vote for the Hugo Awards… but I think it would be a crime if this book did not at least get a nomination. It is an amazing little slice of heaven in a world full of standard fare. If you can vote for the Hugos, please consider Boilerplate for Best Related Work and/or Best Graphic Story. If you can’t vote for the Hugos, then I encourage you to buy the book… Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel is a permanent part of my collection. I pick it up off the shelf to read often; you won’t be sorry. Thanks for your time, my fiends.
Abstrusely,
Sarah L. Gerhardt
There are 1 Comments to "Boilerplate for the Hugo!"
Sarah,
It’s nice to see you writing a longer piece filled with your trademark passion and conviction about the material you enjoy. It’s at times a tightrope act (when I review material anyway) to balance that with the facts and figures, so to speak, of what you’re discussing.
But somehow you were blessed with this uncanny skill; to able to convey your unbridled enthusiasm while packing loads of valuable info and minutae into a review. You give a reader the facts they need to hook them, and the impetus to take the leap and give something a shot – making the abstruse less so without boiling the gold down to base metal.
Well, that was a ponderous way of saying: great job, and I hope Boilerplate is indeed Hugo-bound. I look forward to hearing the entire interview next.
Abstrusely yours.. Always,
Henry