Where to Find Us at Clockwork Alchemy!
Where to find me and Princess Chris Hughes at Clockwork Alchemy:
1) All Weekend in Author’s Alley
at our table in Author’s Alley,
Aster (1st Floor)
2) TTRPG: In Nomine, Presenter Wizard Lizard
Friday, 1:00 pm–5:00 pm (4 hours)
Peninsula 4 (2nd floor)
IN NOMINE: Mad Science for the Hungry Soul Sacramento, 1851. As part of his quest to build an artificial God to replace the one in Heaven, Vapula (demon prince of Technology) plans to usurp the power of Lucifer himself.
3) TTRPG: Deadlands Classic Presenter Wizard Lizard
DEADLANDS CLASSIC: There’s Something in the Lights San Francisco had gas lighting for 14 years before the Great Quake destroyed the city, leaving only rushing water and cliffs full of ghost rock in its place.
Saturday (Friday?), 5:30 pm–9:00 pm (3.5 hours)
Peninsula 4 (2nd floor)
3) Book signing by Sumiko Saulson
Saturday, 11:00 am–Noon (1 hour)
Aster (1st floor)
4) San Francisco By Gas Light
Presenters: Sumiko Saulson, Emily Flummox
Saturday, 1:30 pm–3:00 pm (1.5 hours)
Peninsula 6 (2nd floor)
A history of San Francisco in the era of gas light, which will include things like the gas fire during the 1906 quake, how gas light was used during prohibition, and gas light era San Francisco (Victorian Era through Prohibition Era).
6) The Fog of Time: LGBTQ Horror in the Age of Gas Light
Presenters: Sumiko Saulson, Emily Flummox
Saturday, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm (1.5 hours)
Peninsula 6 (2nd floor)
In honor of Civilization Stained These Young Things and Other Works by Emily Loretta Flummox, the author’s debut collection, we’ll be discussing LGBTQ horror of Victorian, Edwardian, and (American) Prohibition Eras, when gas light was big.
7) Book signing by all the authors
Presenters: T..E. Mac Arthur., J. Scott Coatsworth, M.D. Neu, Lori Saltis, BJ Sikes, Shelley Adina, Dover Whitecliff, Sumiko Saulson, Emily Flummox, Michael Tierney, Erin Tierney, Anthony Francis
Sunday, 9:00 am–10:00 am (1 hour)
Aster (1st floor)
8) Patterns of Light and Shadow
Presenters: Sumiko Saulson, Emily Flummox
Sunday, 10:30 am–Noon (1.5 hours)
Peninsula 6 (2nd floor)
Gas lighting, both literal and figurative, plays a major role in Victorian Horror Literature.The Turn of the Screw and Carmilla include people questioning reality. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde uses gas lights in the streets of London as a metaphor for duality and the horrors of Mr. Hyde, and then Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus where not only gas lighting but electricity represent fear of the dangers of mankind’s hubris and “playing God” when making discoveries.
Sumiko Saulson 