St Pancras (n): A historic district of London, now mainly used to describe the area immediately around an eponymous mainline station in the north of the city.

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Something like 18 months ago, a certain Mr Random Merryman and myself were happy residents of the virtual world Second Life where we spent a large part of our time as part of the the neo-Victorian roleplaying community of Caledon.

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Hmmm. Resolutions. It seems that you either make them, er, resolutely, or you hum and hah for a while about the whole silly process and them make them anyway.

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The inestimable Sir Terence Pratchett of Ankh-Morpork is spearheading a new competition to find an unpublished writer of speculative fiction and to lead them towards all the glorious riches that go with publication – literally in this case, since an advance of £20,000 is part of the deal.

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Here in the headquarters of the Constitutional Monarchy of Koningen der Nacht we are very much enjoying a new web-based game called Echo Bazaar, set in a version of London that has fallen through the earth and into Hell.

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Now, how did we first come across the Cybraphon project? Was it via Radio Riel, that noted purveyor of steampunk music? I believe it must have been. Anyway, fresh from its BAFTA success, the robot is now collaborating with guest composers. The following video is a tango composed by Bernd Rest.

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Just in case lack of daylight hours, extreme weather, worldwide recession, war in the Middle East, the march of government intrusion and Windows Vista’s impasse with your printer are making life hard to bear this grim Monday morning, here’s a bit of steampunk magic.

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