On July 27th, 2012, Vladimir Churov made a surprise appearance. The surprising part wasn’t that he appeared: after all, as both the man in charge of Russia’s recently-concluded presidential elections… Read more »

On this day 185 years ago Jules Verne was born in Nantes, France. One of the most imaginative writers of the nineteenth century, he wrote about air, space, and underwater… Read more »

Aurorarama author Jean-Christophe Valtat was a guest of honor at not one but two steampunk festivals over the last nine days. Jules Verne would be so jealous. Over the next… Read more »