Provost's Lamp above the entrance to a tenement on Prince Edward Street in the Queen's Park area of Glasgow. Designed by William Sugg and Co, it looks like this may have originally been lit by gas rather than electricity.
This is the final week for Hugo Nominations, isn't it? Give a (free) read to "The Work-Clock," my #gaslamp#fantasy#shortStory abt working as a repair tech in the Evil One's prison...
Excuse me: the industrialized, for-profit prison of the Evil One.
Today's release: Cameron Montague Taylor's queer gaslamp fantasy book Silverweaver:
When the hunter…
…becomes the haunted.
Second-rate ghosthunter Anya Iteri is the black sheep of a family of metalweavers—powerful mages who can forge iron, shape steel, and even bend blood. Down on her luck and struggling to pay rent...
I think this is one of a number of cast iron gas lamps outside the late Georgian townhouses along Bath Street in Glasgow. Most have lost their tops, but many of posts, with their distinctive bird heads, remain.
This is one of lamp posts on the Queen Margaret Drive bridge on the west end of Glasgow. From its shape and design, it looks like it might have started its life as a gas-powered lamp and was only later converted to run on electricity. If it is, it's one of the few reminders left of the city's once ubiquitous gas lighting network, which started in 1818 and was finally turned off in 1971.
#writingWonders 29/6 how would you feel if your book got banned?
Considering the kind of people who generally want to have books banned, I'd feel accomplished. That only means I've succeeded in ruffling the feathers of those who needed their feathers ruffled.